Analytics in the real world
I've recently been asked about our tool vendor, Omniture, and their support for IPv6. It seems they currently don't support it, but are working towards it.
Omniture uses the term "plugin" to refer to a few different things. In this example, I'm talking about the plugins placed in the s_doPlugins function in your s_code.js file. This area is run whenever Omniture code is called, whether it by an s.t() page view call, an s.tl() link call or an something like ClickMap.
My problem was that I wanted to trigger some code to run only when there's a page view and not in any other circumstances. Useful, for example, if you want to fire off something to another analytics system only for page views, or you've got some code that only makes sense for pages.
The trick is to test for the value of s.eo, which contains the object associated with the link. So when you do an s.tl() and pass in the linked item (usually with "this") it'll become the value on s.eo. Page views don't have this link, and items that don't define it end up with a value of "0". That means this is an effective test to see if the current call is a page view.
Anyone know a better way to do this? Perhaps a way to definitively differentiate between the different types of call?
function s_doPlugins(s) {
// Only run this code on page views
if (s.eo === undefined) {
// Your code goes here
}
}
