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Asked: 2026-05-31T03:23:45+00:00

I am using a sweet little function to track visitors to my site and

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I am using a sweet little function to track visitors to my site and dump the info to Salesforce. However many form submissions have (none) set for many values because (as I understand it) the cookie is not set until the second page load.

I have tested this and that seems to be accurate, the problem is many people fill out a form on the first page, and I don’t get any info through these submissions.

I am loading GA as follows: 

  <script type="text/javascript">

  var _gaq = _gaq || [];
  _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-29066630-1']);
  _gaq.push(['_trackPageview']);

  (function() {
    var ga = document.createElement('script');
    ga.src = ('https:' == document.location.protocol ? 'https://ssl' : 
        'http://www') + '.google-analytics.com/ga.js';
    ga.setAttribute('async', 'true');
    document.documentElement.firstChild.appendChild(ga);
  })();


</script>

And then running a php function to parse the __utmz cookie apart:

function tracking_cookie() { // ver 1.5
    $trackarr   = split('[|]',$_COOKIE["__utmz"]);
    $conversion = $_COOKIE["Conversion"];

    for($i=0;$i<count($trackarr);$i++){
        $keyvalues=split('[=]',$trackarr[$i]);
        $key=substr($keyvalues[0],-6);      
        switch ($key){
            case "utmcsr":
                $cookie['SearchEngine']     =   $keyvalues[1];break;
            case "utmccn":
                $cookie['SearchCampaign']   =   $keyvalues[1];break;
            case "utmcmd":
                $cookie['SearchType']       =   $keyvalues[1];break;
            case "utmcct":
                $cookie['AdText']           =   $keyvalues[1];break;
            case "utmctr":
                $cookie['Keyword']          =   $keyvalues[1];break;
            case "mgclid":
                $cookie['isPPC']            =   $keyvalues[1];break;
        }
    }

I have more code running after this. Any ideas on how to force the cookie to load the first time around?

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  1. Editorial Team

    A cookie isn’t readable until the second page load – because they get sent in the request.

    What you could do is on the initial page load (and no _utmz cookie is found in PHP) append another JS file / invoke some JS that will run an ajax command back to your server after the page has loaded.

    This will act as the second page load and should have access to the new cookie (and the user wouldn’t have left the page)

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