Google Analytics Tracking in Flash
Posted by ophir on November 17th, 2008
Google just announced an official ActionScript 3 library for tracking flash events in Google Analytics.
You can read the whole post here:
http://analytics.blogspot.com/2008/11/want-to-track-adobe-flash-now-you-can.html
I’ve implemented Google Analytics tracking from withing Flash in the past, but it was simply having the Flash call some JavaScript code on the page.
This solution is much more elegant and opens up many new possibilities.
This is also very exciting for Google Website Optimizer users, as it should now be very easy to use an event within a Flash as the conversion event.
November 21st, 2008 at 10:42 am
But what is it that really changed?
That now in order to send a hit to GA servers
we don’t need to trigger javascript from the hosting page?
I mean..before that release you could use the OnClick on acs
to fire up the call for GA..what has changed than?
does it mean that now when the flash object embedded on sites
that don’t allow external javascript like my space it will still send the hits/event?