Comments on: Integrate Google Analytics with Flash | Tutorial

By: Jonathon P

Jonathon P — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 13:15:34 +0000

I’ve done everything in your example ….. nothing is getting recorded to GA. Only the page hits seem to get recorded.

Can you be more specific with this part

” (Note that your analytics tracking code must be placed on the page above the flash call(s) to _trackPageview or urchinTracker)”

My GA code that is in my HTML file is sitting right above my closing BODY tag.

I have tried putting the code right above my Flash embed statement too … still doesnt work.

By: Shane

Shane — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 02:09:39 +0000

I am trying to track when someone watches a flash movie on my site I have used the following code on the play button but I don’t see any results in GA it has been over 24 hours since I have added the code and put it on the site. the rest of GA is updated but it does not show the video anywhere.

on (release) {
//Track with action
getURL(“javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview(‘/video/getDeal.php’);”);
_root.gotoAndPlay(4);
myVar = “Video Play From GetDeal”;
}

By: Jay

Jay — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 20:33:41 +0000

So my question is…if I wanted to track… for example, if I run this banner (http://mercl.com/glucocil/banners/gluc_160×600.html) on http://www.WebMD.com.

I’m not the guy putting the code on WebMD.com so is there a way to get the code all together so what I send him can be placed easily?

Not sure if I’m making sense. I know on my own page I could put the code wherever I want, but counting on someone else…when you’re paying alot…another issue.

By: Evan Mullins

Evan Mullins — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 14:19:05 +0000

@ Greg Johnson – I’d think you have to update the flash file and include the script to communicate with analytics. You could use an html button pretty easily and do all the control with javascript as well, not sure what functionality you have wrapped up in flash though. Good Luck!

@DavidF – to do the flash google analytics communication you shouldn’t need to access the html as long as it has google analytics properly installed. (Keep in mind that if it’s not your google analytics tracking code account number you wont have access to the analytics though). If I understand correctly, I’d say put the tracking code in your flash index file and each time you click one of the 24 buttons, send a call to google analytics.

By: DavidF

DavidF — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 18:53:03 +0000

this is for an Advent calendar .. I need to drop some analytics into a Flash movie .. using a flash file as an index which has 24 buttons .. could I put the analytics on the index to show which buttons are being clicked .. or each of the 24 flash movies it launches.

I’m not quite sure how the 24 flash files are being accessed (as it’s behind a corporate firewall, so I cannot see it) an I’m not so much of a flash expert (you guessed that didn’t you!) .. can the analytics code be put directly into the flash move somehow without any need to drop anything into an HTML page?

By: Greg Jenkins

Greg Jenkins — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 13:39:01 +0000

I'm using a single Flash button to play multiple audio files,. So I just update the HTML to reflect the audio file I want played. However I want to track each audio file seperately. Can I track the clicks on the play button, in Analytics, without updating the Flash file? Web page: http://www.lyonspr.com/listen.php Is there Javascript I can use instead? Any ideas?

By: Og2t

Og2t — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 23:35:22 +0000

Hey there, just posted an article on how to track events in SWFs embedded on remote sites: http://play.blog2t.net/tracking-events-in-embedded-swfs-with-google-analytics/ Just thought I could share.

By: michy

michy — Wed, 27 May 2009 06:45:10 +0000

In google analytics can u show me way how to embed google analytics in a media player(for example: JW player)

By: Lee

Lee — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 16:34:09 +0000

If you’re having trouble accessing the reports simply hack the URL to include the events folder and away you go http://www.leewoodman.co.uk/blog/09042009/346752/google-event-tracking-hack/

By: Evan Mullins

Evan Mullins — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 15:11:59 +0000

Great to hear you got it all working Fahad,
let me know how it works for you.