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I am looking into using http://www.asual.com/jquery/address/ , but I am wondering how it effects google analytics. Google analytics is a snippet of code at the bottom of pages. I would imagine deep linking would still look like activity on the initial page, not new pages.

Jared
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  • Jared. Did you resolve this yet? If so can you post your answer? – djburdick May 27 '10 at 18:13
  • bandhunt - no, I never came to a resolution, other than I noticed that the website that provides examples of jquery deep linking uses google analytics. I am just not familiar enough with analytics and deep linking to do an extensive test... – Jared Jun 12 '10 at 20:18

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From what I can see it will look to google analytics like navigating to a new page.

Just open e.g. http://www.asual.com/jquery/address/samples/tabs/ and check the requests FF makes (e.g. with Live HTTP Headers) and you will see that the google analytics fires a request for every tab you switch to.

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  • Thanks for the info! Unfortunately, every tab says Referer: http://www.asual.com/jquery/address/samples/tabs/ At least that confirms that I am going to need some tricky coding... – Jared Dec 15 '09 at 14:52
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in it's current version 1.3 the jquery address plugin tries to do the ga tracking automatically, using the asynchronous ga tracking (see http://code.google.com/apis/analytics/docs/tracking/asyncUsageGuide.html). this is also mentioned in plugin's api docs at http://www.asual.com/jquery/address/docs/#api-reference (look for $.address.tracker)

actually this new behaviour (i was using address' version 1.0 before) broke my custom tracking code on an ajax site - as it isn't configurable, i had to downgrade to 1.0.

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As long as the page, and the analytics code is being loaded, it will still count as a hit on the page. I don't think there would be any negative impacts of using this plug in.

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