Google Analytics and Samsung Smart TV Apps

Question

I'm trying to integrate Google Analytics in my Smart TV Application. It is a Javascript based application, and I have tried all the solutions available on the SamsungDForum, but no one works. In the part of the main index.html file, I load Google Analytics: ``` ``` Then, I am tracking the page entrance: ``` ``` Unfortunately, I cannot see the page tracked inside my Analytics account. Real account id is not UA-XXXXXXXX-X, I am using the correct ID in actual code. What I am doing wrong?

Accepted Answer

So you need an iframe to put the file with GA snippet inside. The file must be on remote server, because Samsung Smart TV apps works on localhost and GA ignore calls from local.

```
  <iframe name='ga' src="http://example.com/ga.html" width="0" height="0"/>
```

From the GA snippet you can remove the line, if you don't want GA to count trackPage on iframe load.

```
  _gaq.push(['_trackPageview']);
```

Then in the main script you add this function:

```
  var trackPage = function(url) {
    if (window.ga && window.ga._gaq)
      window.ga._gaq.push(['_trackPageview', '/samsung' + url.replace(/ /g, "_")]);
  };
```

So calling for example `trackPage("/sports/football/barcelona chelsea")` somewhere in the app will produce GA track page with exact url:

```
 /samsung/sports/football/barcelona_chelsea
```

It is very efficient - you can play with GA Real time and you can see how nice it works. As GA works asynchronous the iframe never gets reloaded.

Google Analytics and Samsung Smart TV Apps

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