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Google Analytics Templatetag

Author:
rizumu
Posted:
October 9, 2008
Language:
Python
Version:
1.0
Score:
1 (after 3 ratings)

This template tag allows easy inclusion of google analytics script. If Google changes the script in the future, it remains easy to update the template tag with the the new code. This script is tested against Django 1.0 trunk Oct 9 2008.

Readme After signing up for a Google Analytics account for your domain, define ANALYTICS_ID = "UA-XXXXXXX-X" in your settings.py with the supplied code.

Include {% load analytics %} at the top of your base.html and {% analytics %} tag at just before the closing 'body' tag of the base template.

Make a template to hold the analytics script. templates/analytics/analytics_html

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from django import template
from django.conf import settings

from django.template import Context, loader

register = template.Library()

@register.simple_tag
def analytics():
    'You must define ANALYTICS_ID = "UA-XXXXXXX-X" in your settings.py'

    analytics_id = getattr(settings, 'ANALYTICS_ID', None)
    if analytics_id.strip() != '':
        t = loader.get_template ('analytics/analytics_template.html')
        c = Context({
            'analytics_code': analytics_id,
        })
        return t.render(c)

    else:
        return ""


"""
in templates/analytics/analytics_html.  paste the following

<script type="text/javascript">
var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www.");
document.write(unescape("%3Cscript src='" + gaJsHost + "google-analytics.com/ga.js' type='text/javascript'%3E%3C/script%3E"));
</script>
<script type="text/javascript">
var pageTracker = _gat._getTracker("{{ analytics_code }}");
pageTracker._trackPageview();
</script>

"""

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Comments

dnordberg (on October 9, 2008):

If google changes something you'll have to restart your server. How is this easier than just adding it to your base template?

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Arien (on October 9, 2008):

These tags don't change that often, anyway. But if you are concerned about that, you could do a simple include of a generic file and keep the Google code in it :)

I think this can serve for similar things though, not just Google Analytics. Thanks for the idea.

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rizumu (on October 9, 2008):

@dnordberg, I agree and don't want to restart the server either. I updated the tag to pull from the html in from a template file. BTW, this is an adaptation of a few snippets I found around, but I wanted the tag to work a little differently, and with the updated codes.

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hasenj (on October 12, 2008):

I would just put the analytics html code in a separate template and {% include "analytics.html" %} where ever I need it.

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