Dayn W Creative

Bookmark this Google page and keep it around for reference. Tracking click-throughs in Flash with Google Analytics turned out to be easier than I thought. Use the following ActionScript to make your visitors’ clicks in Flash register with Google Analytics.

on (release) {
getURL("javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('/path/to/page.php');");
_root.gotoAndPlay(3); //your action here
}


Of course, it’s the pageTracker._trackPageview() JavaScript function that’s really doing the work, so I assume you can call this function from within Flash wherever you can use the getURL() ActionScript function.

I am building a landing page for an online coupon campaign, and am using this code to track the number of downloads of the PDF coupon to compare to pageviews.

EDIT: Here’s another great post with a bunch of examples of tracking click throughs in Flash. Careful though, these examples are for use with the older Urchin Google Analytics JavaScript snippet.