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atani
atani

Reputation: 53

Google Analytics - how to track across domains when we use Universal Analytics and other domain uses Traditional?

We're trying to track users across domains from our site to another domain (payment processor). We are using Universal Analytics (analytics.js) but the other site is using Traditional (ga.js). In fact they are using both, but they are using ga.js to register our GA ID and universal to track their GA ID.

If both parties were using Universal Analytics then it could be accomplished by appending a _ga=$_gaCookieValue url parameter to all links pointing from our site to theirs. Since they are using ga.js for our GA Id this url parameter is not getting picked up and registered on their site.

Does anyone know how we might solve this mismatch? We're pressing the other site for help but have come up short so far.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 69

Answers (1)

Philip Walton
Philip Walton

Reputation: 30461

ga.js does not support this type of communication with analytics.js, so what you're asking to do is just not possible without a lot of hacking or manual implementation on their part, which would be a total waste of time since it'll be much easier for them to just upgrade their implementation to analytics.js and then use the officially supported Linker plugin to get out of-the-box, cross-domain tracking.

Upvotes: 1

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