Tracking an onpage 'event'

[GrumpyCarl]

Hi all

Wondering if anyone could help out with this one please. My client is a government backed free internet safety website and in the next few days they will be launching an update on all of their pages which will let people know if their browser is out of date. For example, when you go to their site you will get a message advising you to upgrade your browser for security reasons.

They have employed the following code to check the browser

The client are keen to know how many times in a period this message is shown to users. Any idea how one would go about tracking this please. Would it involve some custom GA work, would I be able to track the hits on https://wxxxx.org/javascript/update.js in GA? I'm a little stumped. Obviously I can tell how many people loaded the page but not sure how to work out what % of them see the javascript

Many thanks for your help

Carl

[mikecp]

This should be pretty simple. Add a line to your onLoad that looks like an event:

window.onload=function(){ 
 try {if ($buoop.ol) $buoop.ol();}catch (e) {} 
 var e = document.createElement("script"); 
 e.setAttribute("type", "text/javascript"); 
 e.setAttribute("src", "https://wxxxx.org/javascript/upda...");  (have replaced the domain name for this example)
 document.body.appendChild(e);

_gaq.push(['_trackEvent','browser-warning','{browser name}']);

Whenever the message is shown, an event is fired.

[cogbox]

You can do event tracking now within Google Analytics.

https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/gajs/eventTrackerGuide

You should be able to set up an event, and then call the event tracking within your script inside the try{} loop.

[GrumpyCarl]

Sorry, had a thought which is probably foolish but will share anyway

Could I set up a custom Google Analytics and generate a unique GA tracking code and place it inside of the above script or would it still be picked up by the whole page?