Question

I’m trying to get the setAllowAnchor flag in Google Analytics to record campaign information but it doesn’t seem to be working.

The site I’m trying to use it on uses hashbang-style URLs BTW – that’s the http://hostname/#!/relative-url style of navigation because there needs to be a persistant audio player across page views.

I’ve tried both of the below, but am not seeing any setAllowAnchor campaign in GA.

/#!/&utm_campaign=setAllowAnchor&utm_medium=hash&utm_source=test
/#utm_campaign=setAllowAnchor&utm_medium=hash&utm_source=test

The function setAllowAnchor is not deprecated. What am I doing wrong?

My Google Analytics code looks like this:

<script type="text/javascript">
var _gaq = _gaq || [];
_gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-1060190-1']);
_gaq.push(['_trackPageview']);
_gaq.push(['_trackPageLoadTime']);
_gaq.push(['_setAllowAnchor', true]);
(function() {
var ga = document.createElement('script'); ga.type = 'text/javascript'; ga.async = true;
ga.src = ('https:' == document.location.protocol ? 'https://ssl' : 'http://www') + '.google-analytics.com/ga.js';
var s = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(ga, s);
})();
</script>

Answer 1

Any Google Analytics configuration must come before the _trackPageview or any other _track* functions. So if you rewrite your code to issue the _setAllowAnchor before the _trackPageview it should work.

Also notice that _trackPageLoadTime is not needed anymore. It’s issued by default and so ths function is deprecated.

<script type="text/javascript">
var _gaq = _gaq || [];
_gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-1060190-1']);
_gaq.push(['_setAllowAnchor', true]);
_gaq.push(['_trackPageview']);
(function() {
var ga = document.createElement('script'); ga.type = 'text/javascript'; ga.async = true;
ga.src = ('https:' == document.location.protocol ? 'https://ssl' : 'http://www') + '.google-analytics.com/ga.js';
var s = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(ga, s);
})();
</script>