Server Side Google Analytics -- utm variables

Question

So I have set up on my server a page that will be called depending on certain conditions. This script creates the .gif for google analytics and hits their server.

I've confirmed with my clients they're seeing the page hits; however, some want to see UTM variables (utm_campaign, utm_source, utm_term, etc...). I can't seem to get the UTM variables to stay, I've attached them to the tracking string but they look like they're being removed. Will this require the UTME piece?

    <cfset TrackingStringFromEDOM = ("http://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?" & 
        "utmwv=4.4sh&" &
        "utmn=#RandRange(0,2000000000)#&" &
        "utmhn=#URLEncodedFormat(urlDomainString)#&" &
        "utmr=%2D&" &
        "utmp=#URLEncodedFormat(utmp)#&" &
        "utmac=#googleID#&" &
        "utmcc=__utma%3D999.999.999.999.999.1%3B&" &
        "utmvid=#id#&" &
        "utmip=127.0.0.0"
    ) />
    <cfoutput>#TrackingStringFromEDOM#</cfoutput><br/><br/>

    <cfhttp method="get" url="#TrackingStringFromEDOM#" timeout="1000" />

You should not be wrapping the url attribute of cfhttp in parenthesis. First thing that needs to change. Move the parenthesis out of the cfset and wrap them around the output. — Shawn Holmes, Oct 07 '11 at 23:14

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 09 '11 at 11:11

First I would write the variable a bit differently:

<cfset TrackingStringFromEDOM = "http://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?" & 
        "utmwv=4.4sh&" &
        "utmn=" & RandRange(0,2000000000) & "&" &
        "utmhn=" & URLEncodedFormat(urlDomainString) & "&" &
        "utmr=%2D&" &
        "utmp=" & URLEncodedFormat(utmp) & "&" &
        "utmac=" & googleID & "&" &
        "utmcc=__utma%3D999.999.999.999.999.1%3B&" &
        "utmvid=" & id & "&" &
        "utmip=127.0.0.0"
     />

Another thing is some parameters don't seem to be in the list of the gif parameters - please check http://code.google.com/intl/en/apis/analytics/docs/tracking/gaTrackingTroubleshooting.html#gifParameters

Server Side Google Analytics -- utm variables

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