analytics.js – Tarik Billa

what are the values in _ga cookie?

March 20, 2023 by Tarik

_ga=1.2.286403989.1366364567; 1st Field This is a versioning number. In case the cookie format changes in the future. Seems to be fixed at 1 at the moment. The one above is an old format. Newer cookies have this value set at “GA1” 2nd Field This field is used to figure out the correct cookie in case … Read more

Events not being tracked in new Google Analytics (analytics.js) setup

March 18, 2023 by Tarik

If you are using Google Tag Manager and also want to trigger some events via code, ga(‘send’…) does not appear to be enough. You need to first fetch the appropriate analytics object: if (“ga” in window) { tracker = ga.getAll()[0]; if (tracker) tracker.send(“event”, “Test”, “Test GA”); } Note that this assumes you’re only using a … Read more