Question

The situation
I’d like to use GA to track some serverside operations. That’s why I cant make use of the GA JavaScript functions. But, as you might know, you can request the utm.gif right from your server. This already works fine.

The Problem
I’d like to trackt custom parameters. But I have no idea how to add them in the right format to the url-request

This one should do the custom parms. But I didn’t get any results in GA.

utme=5(Init*load_success*http://www.mydomain.de)8(userstatus)9(fan)11(2)

Full list of params:

    ref   ts
    utmac   UA-XXXXXX-5
    utmcc   __utma=186215409.1789216404.1265552708.1280074861.1280493144.21;+__utmz=;
    utmcs   ISO-8859-1
    utmdt   Button
    utme    5(Init*load_success*http://www.mydomain.de)8(mycustomvar)9(mycustomvalue)11(2)
    utmfl   -
    utmhn   mydomain.de
    utmje   -
    utmn    1114675642
    utmp    button
    utmr    http://www.mydomain.de
    utmsc   -
    utmsr   -
    utmul   de-de
    utmwv   4.5.7

Answer 1

not sure what’s going wrong, given what you posted, but how about you write out what you want to send the traditional way (with javascript) and put it on a test page. Use firebug or whatever to grab the requested url that’s built and compare it to what you have now.