Google Analytics: Track One Website with Two Domains (e.g. dot-com and dot-ca) with Universal Analytics

Tuesday, May 13, 2014 7:21:00 PM

The Muddling Thru blog has two domain names: muddlingthru.ca and muddlingthru.com. I wanted to setup Google Analytics to track both. Here is the code that did it.

Example

<script>

(function(i,s,o,g,r,a,m){i['GoogleAnalyticsObject']=r;i[r]=i[r]||function(){
  (i[r].q=i[r].q||[]).push(arguments)},i[r].l=1*new Date();a=s.createElement(o),
  m=s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0];a.async=1;a.src=g;m.parentNode.insertBefore(a,m)
  })(window,document,'script','//www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js','ga');

// this must happen before require
  ga('create', 'UA-XXXXXX-X', 'auto', {
    'allowLinker': true
  });

// this links the two domains
  ga('require', 'linker');
  ga('linker:autoLink', ['muddlingthru.com', 'muddlingthru.ca']);

// this sends the analytics
  ga('send', 'pageview');

</script>

Test

Install the Google Analytics Debugger in Google Chrome.
Turn it on.
Open the JavaScript console (Ctrl + Shift + J)
Reload the page to view possible errors.

Example

Test

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