Add 'auto' to the Google Analytics tracker create method. #1562
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| @@ -159,7 +159,7 @@ parameter](https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/analytic | |||
| before sending any events/pagviews. In use it looks like this: | |||
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| ```js | |||
| ga('create','UA-XXXXX-X'); | |||
| ga('create','UA-XXXXX-X','auto'); | |||
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Cc: @mathiasbynens |
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@alrra I can, but it wasn't there before and the space wasn't in any of the other code in the snippet. |
@philipwalton The code examples in the docs aren't quite consistent at the moment, so might as well fix that. Thanks! |
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@alrra Sure, no problem. Updated. |
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| e=o.createElement(i);r=o.getElementsByTagName(i)[0]; | |||
| e.src='//www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js'; | |||
| r.parentNode.insertBefore(e,r)}(window,document,'script','ga')); | |||
| ga('create','UA-XXXXX-X');ga('send','pageview'); | |||
| ga('create', 'UA-XXXXX-X', 'auto'); ga('send', 'pageview'); | |||
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@philipwalton thanks!
I'm for this addition. :) |
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Sorry, yeah I thought that was weird. Updated and squashed to make it easier to compare. |
Update spacing to be consistent.
Thank you for being so responsive! 💜 |
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The Google Universal Analytics now supports automatic cookie domain
configuration simply by adding `auto` to the analytics tracker create
method: `ga('create', 'UA-XXXX-Y', 'auto');`.
From https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/analyticsjs/domains#auto:
"Automatic Cookie Domain Configuration simplifies cross domain
tracking implementations by automatically writing cookies to the
highest level domain possible when the auto parameter is used.
When used on the domain www.example.co.uk, it will try to write
cookies in the following order:
1. co.uk
2. example.co.uk
3. www.example.co.uk
Analytics.js will fail to write a cookie on co.uk but will succeed
on example.co.uk. Since a cookie was succesfully written on a higher
level domain, www.example.co.uk will be skipped"
So, when this parameter is omitted (as it was prior to this commit),
Google Universal Analytics will default to using `location.hostname`,
which will include the subdomain, preventing websites with multiple
subdomains from being able to automatically track unique users across
those subdomains.
Note: The `auto` parameter is now officially part of the recommended
Google Universal Analytics snippet.
https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/analyticsjs/
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Ref: https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/analyticsjs/domains#auto
Close: #1562.
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Merged in 4fca586. Thanks again @philipwalton! |
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You're welcome! |
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The Google Universal Analytics now supports automatic cookie domain
configuration simply by adding `auto` to the analytics tracker create
method: `ga('create', 'UA-XXXX-Y', 'auto');`.
From https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/analyticsjs/domains#auto:
"Automatic Cookie Domain Configuration simplifies cross domain
tracking implementations by automatically writing cookies to the
highest level domain possible when the auto parameter is used.
When used on the domain www.example.co.uk, it will try to write
cookies in the following order:
1. co.uk
2. example.co.uk
3. www.example.co.uk
Analytics.js will fail to write a cookie on co.uk but will succeed
on example.co.uk. Since a cookie was succesfully written on a higher
level domain, www.example.co.uk will be skipped"
So, when this parameter is omitted (as it was prior to this commit),
Google Universal Analytics will default to using `location.hostname`,
which will include the subdomain, preventing websites with multiple
subdomains from being able to automatically track unique users across
those subdomains.
Note: The `auto` parameter is now officially part of the recommended
Google Universal Analytics snippet.
https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/analyticsjs/
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Ref: https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/analyticsjs/domains#auto
h5bp/html5-boilerplate#1562
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The Google Universal Analytics now supports automatic cookie domain
configuration simply by adding `auto` to the analytics tracker create
method: `ga('create', 'UA-XXXX-Y', 'auto');`.
From https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/analyticsjs/domains#auto:
"Automatic Cookie Domain Configuration simplifies cross domain
tracking implementations by automatically writing cookies to the
highest level domain possible when the auto parameter is used.
When used on the domain www.example.co.uk, it will try to write
cookies in the following order:
1. co.uk
2. example.co.uk
3. www.example.co.uk
Analytics.js will fail to write a cookie on co.uk but will succeed
on example.co.uk. Since a cookie was succesfully written on a higher
level domain, www.example.co.uk will be skipped"
So, when this parameter is omitted (as it was prior to this commit),
Google Universal Analytics will default to using `location.hostname`,
which will include the subdomain, preventing websites with multiple
subdomains from being able to automatically track unique users across
those subdomains.
Note: The `auto` parameter is now officially part of the recommended
Google Universal Analytics snippet.
https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/analyticsjs/
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Ref: https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/analyticsjs/domains#auto
Close: h5bp/html5-boilerplate#1562.
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Google Analytics supports automatic cookie domain configuration, and this is now officially part of the recommended GA code snippet.
When this parameter is omitted (as it was prior to this pull request), Google Analytics will default to using
location.hostname, which will include the subdomain. This prevents websites with multiple subdomains from being able to automatically track unique users across those subdomains.