Comments on: Gathering statistics using Google Analytics and Unity 3D

By: InfiniteUnity3D

InfiniteUnity3D — Sun, 23 May 2010 01:00:48 +0000

How did I miss this post? This would be interesting experimentation.

By: Shweta Gupte

Shweta Gupte — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 15:19:28 +0000

i will try that will see what happens.I was using the timetraker function mentioned in the google docs but looks like its recording something but not time stuff.Will try the above way and see what happens.

Thanks for the response

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 07:13:43 +0000

In the case of time tracking, the length of time would go in ‘Value’ parameter.

Google’s analysis system can also analyse the time between calls to _trackPageview(), although using that approach in a Unity game would require faking the page address to something meaningful, and I have no idea how to do that.

By: Shweta Gupte

Shweta Gupte — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 20:58:21 +0000

Hi,
I am trying to do time tracking for a game.How long it take to get to the end of the game or to move a item etc.Could you be able to help me with that?
Thanks
Shweta

By: Craig Timpany

Craig Timpany — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 20:15:56 +0000

I don’t think that Evaluate field evaluates the expression in the scope of any particular page. Running the snippet from there doesn’t work on my pages either. I was suggesting looking at the javascript error list after the embedded Unity has sent events.

If you want to test the JS without anything else getting in the way, Google’s documentation suggests dumping it in an OnClick handler. They’ve got an example here:
http://code.google.com/intl/en-US/apis/analytics/docs/tracking/eventTrackerGuide.html

If you’re getting pageviews through, I kinda doubt the problem is in the page. That indicates that at least pageTracker._trackPageview() is running. The worst that could happen would be Unity trying to send events before the browser has received the part of the page with the GA code. I’ve never seen that happen though, I’ve only been sending events in response to user input.

By: Magnus

Magnus — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 17:24:36 +0000

Maybe I didn’t implement it correctly in my html.

This is what I get when trying to evaluate something similar in the firefox “error console”:
Error: pageTracker is not defined
Source File: javascript:%20pageTracker._trackEvent(“Test”,%20″test”,%20″foo”,%205);
Line: 1

By: Craig Timpany

Craig Timpany — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 23:48:29 +0000

The javascript console log in your web browser would be good to check too. That’ll tell you whether the call to the GA page tracker is going OK or not.

There’s no minimum of the amount of data. I was getting events listed as soon as I got pageviews listed.

One thing that I should’ve mentioned in the article is that the _trackEvent call has 3 variations:
– _trackEvent(category, action, label)
– _trackEvent(category, action, value)
– _trackEvent(category, action, label, value)

A call like _trackEvent(category, action, null, value), won’t work.

By: Magnus

Magnus — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 21:34:45 +0000

Nice article!

I think I’m doing everything right, and I see the traffic in GA.. but I’m not seeing the actual events.. any ideas? Is there like a minimum amount of events that need to be received before they are displayed, to prevent personally identifiable information?

Didn’t check the unity webplayer log yet tho, might do that.