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Is it possible to create a version of this for Clicky analytics (http://www.getclicky.com)

~ David

Hey David, I can help you with the integration if you want.

-Paras

Thanks Paras. It’s on my task list.

Which of the 5 slots do you use? Can we configure that?

VWO uses slot 4. Currently it isn’t possible to customize that but would you like to do it?

Well, sometimes we use something like gaTracker instead of pageTracker, and sometimes we use the async version of the Google Analytics tracking code. And some clients already use slot 1 to 4, and then it’s good to have a choice.

Great idea, we can easily build that feature into the integration code. Let us know when you are on it.

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Hi Paras

Just want to say that this is a killer integration. Reeeaaaally love this.

The option of choosing slot yourself would be real great, it makes it much more flexible. And would make it possible to track 5 different test on the same site at a time. That is relevant when having 5 landingpages with its own order flow :)

Hi Jacob,

Yes, in the next version (coming out this week) we will be providing a code snippet that allows specifying which slot to use. Stay tuned!

-Paras

To all who requested GA custom slot, updated the code and post to allow that!

Hi,

We’re using Google Analytics asynchronous tag.
Is the integration of VWO will be the same as the code you show upon?

Example:

var _gaq = _gaq || [];
_gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-xxxxxxx-x']);

if (typeof(_vis_opt_GA_track) == “function”) { _vis_opt_GA_track(); }

_gaq.push(['_trackPageview']);
(function() {
var ga = document.createElement(‘script’); ga.type = ‘text/javascript’; ga.async = true;
ga.src = (‘https:’ == document.location.protocol ? ‘https://ssl’ : ‘http://www’) + ‘.google-analytics.com/ga.js’;
var s = document.getElementsByTagName(‘script’)[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(ga, s);
})();

Thanks

No, it won’t be the same. Just wait a couple of days – we are releasing a plugin compatible with Async code.

Paras,

Any reason why this doesn’t work?

if (typeof(_vis_opt_GA_track) == “function”) {
var pageTracker =
_gaq._createAsyncTracker(analyticsCode, ‘pageTracker’);
_vis_opt_GA_track();
}

The code doesn’t yet work with asynchronous GA snippet. We will be soon updating the VWO code to make it work. Will keep you informed.

UPDATE: It is now possible to use VWO plugin with GA asynchronous code snippet. See the update in the post.

Hey Paras, just stumbled across this the other day — apparently it is possible to have more than 5 custom variables: http://analyticsimpact.com/2010/05/24/get-more-than-5-custom-variables-in-google-analytics/

fwiw.

Paras:

Do you have a plug-in that works with getclicky.com now?

Thanks,

- Alex -

No, not yet. Are you looking forward to that?

Paras:

Yes, I need integration with GetClicky.com

Even if there isn’t a plug-in, is it possible to use your tool with GetClicky?

Thanks,

- Alex -

Alex, yes of course, you can use it with Clicky. There will be no conflicts.

How is suggested that it’s implemented if using the format:

var _gaq = _gaq || [];_gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-XXXXXX-1'],['_trackPageview'],['b._setAccount', 'UA-XXXXXX-2'],['b._trackPageview']);

@Simon: you can call _vis_opt_GA_track() function immediately after var _gaq = _gaq || []; Something like this:

var _gaq = _gaq || []; if (typeof(_vis_opt_GA_track) == “function”) { _vis_opt_GA_track(); } _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-XXXXXX-1'],['_trackPageview'],['b._setAccount', 'UA-XXXXXX-2'],['b._trackPageview']);

Let me know if it helps

Thanks Paras, worked a treat, in that there are no errors. Looking forward to seeing the results in GA!

Is there a known issue with _vis_opt_GA_track() causing visits to become treated as new visits (and thus jacking the bounce rate up to 100%)? This is really mauling our Analytics data. I’m guessing it’s some weird interaction with our setup, because third-party Analytics integration has done this in the past before, but I have no idea how to debug it.

The difference between our setup and yours is that we don’t have an _initData() line–is that necessary? http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Google%20Analytics/thread?tid=6ae93fabba94b5fd&hl=en

I don’t understand how I track multiple tests – sorry! Do I simply add that code snippet at the top of every page to change it to ’5′?

@David: change what to ’5′? Can you email us at support@wingify.com?

Hi Paras

We use Urchin Server, and it does not support custom variables only the User Defined Variable. Do you have a setting that will allow us to specify that the test group label be applied to the User Defined Var? Also, it seems that it would be simpler to use a single variable to label a visit regardless of the test participation (assuming that each visitor is limited to only a single test). Given that, could we just set the variable value with this structure “test name: test group”. That way, we don’t have to constrain GA/Urchin tracking of our active tests to the whatever the availability of multiple unique variables “slots.”

Thanks always for sharing your ideas so freely and moving your platform forward with such agility for all of us to benefit.

@Hi John, why don’t you mail me and then we take from there?

This is not the code that I have on my website for Google Analytics. The code I have is

_uacct = “NNNNNNNNNNNN”;
urchinTracker();

Can you please help me get this up and running?

@Marco: can you email at support@wingify.com

If I use the funtion:
pageTracker._trackPageview(“XXX.html”);

The pluging will work?

@Yossy: yes it should.

Hello PARAS,
I am not able to add your given code in our website because so please let me know if you can do it

PS we are using Google analytical right now

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Can you please add this page/content to the help section? I keep trying to search for it and don’t find it.

@Anne: Thanks for pointing it out. Just adding the article.

Is it in the near future going to be possible to run multiple tests at the same time?

@Zorg: yes, we are planning to update the snippet to allow for multiple tests.

Am I reading this correctly? I have a multiple URL based tests running on my site for a template test across course pages.

I also have a goal page tracking in the test. The goal is picked up by VWO, but I’m not seeing the goal tracking in GA. Is this because I have 29 individual tests for the course template split test and GA will only show the goal results if there is one test running?

The plugin is working for other queries. All 29 tests are on Custom Var 4.

This is great feature!
But looks like it doesn’t work with async VWO code. In async VWO snippet, the javascript contanining the “_vis_opt_GA_track()” is loaded AFTER Google Analytics sends a beacon. So the code that should set GA custom variable is skipped. As a result, we don’t have integration.
The solution is using synchronous snippet, but I still hope this can be resolved somehow (e.g. by ordering calls to VWO and GA scripts).

@Vasil: yes, we do have plans to make GA async work with GA script.

Edit: The GA async integration now works perfectly.

It’d be very nice. Anyway, I think you should mention using synchronous VWO snippet for Google Analytics integration in this post. It can save time of other people who can step on the same rake :)

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