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Emil
Emil

Reputation: 8527

Passing undefined value for _trackPageview in Google Analytics

I want to call the following code from my pages, and sometimes pass a PageName parameter.

function _ga(PageName) {
    _gaq = [['_setAccount', 'UA-00000000-0'], ['_setDetectFlash', false], ['_trackPageview', PageName]];//global variable
    var d = document,
        t = 'script',
        g = d.createElement(t),
        s = d.getElementsByTagName(t)[0];
    g.src = 'https://ssl.google-analytics.com/ga.js';
    s.parentNode.insertBefore(g, s);
}

What will happen if the PageName variable is undefined? Would Analytics interpret it as ['_trackPageview'].

I cannot test it live, but as far as i can see nothing crashes when the variable is undefined.

I can add extra code if Analytics does not accept undefined.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 323

Answers (1)

Eduardo
Eduardo

Reputation: 22832

Yes. The following 3 calls are equivalent.

_gaq.push(['_trackPageview']);
_gaq.push(['_trackPageview', undefined]);
_gaq.push(['_trackPageview', '']);

You can easily test this by executing the 3 calls in any site that uses Google Analytics (Including Stack Exchange) and then examining the gif requests on the network panel.

You will notice that all the calls will use the current url by default by examining the utmp parameter of the gif request.

Upvotes: 1

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