Using Google Analytics asynchronous code from external JS file
asynchronous, google-analytics, javascript, unobtrusive-javascript
Solution
Your variable definition `var _gaq` is inside a function. That means it's locally scoped inside that function and won't exist globally. Google Analytics depends on the global variable `_gaq`. If you want to keep it inside a function like that, reference it as `window._gaq`.
Problem
I'm trying to add the asynchronous version of the Google Analytics tracking code to a website. I'd like to keep the JavaScript in a separate file, and call it from there. Here's what I've currently got in my .js file: ``` function addLoadEvent(func) { var oldonload = window.onload; if (typeof window.onload != 'function') { window.onload = func; } else { window.onload = function() { oldonload(); func(); } } } function loadtracking() { var _gaq = _gaq || []; _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-XXXXXXX-X']); _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); })(); } addLoadEvent(loadtracking); ``` And here's what I've got in the `<head>` tag of my Master page: ``` <script type="text/javascript" src="js/google-analytics.js" ></script> ``` However, there's obviously a problem as after a few days, I'm not getting stats through! Any ideas what I need to change? Thanks, Neil EDIT: Ok... After some feedback below, I'm going to add the new current contents of my .js file. I'll keep it updated so that if/when this gets solved, it will hopefully help other people trying to do similar things. ``` var _gaq = _gaq || []; function loadtracking() { window._gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-XXXXXXX-X']); window._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); })(); } loadtracking(); ```