Google Analytics Script (BaseHref???) Problem

[tomevans]

On the homepage of my site, Actinic adds in "acatalog/" to my google analytics script, which sadly breaks it. I think this may be something to do with the BaseHref tag perhaps, but I'm not sure how I can stop it inserting "acatalog/" into the script.

The code appears correctly on all the other pages which are in the acatalog folder as below:

<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>

and appears like this on the homepage:

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

Any ideas on solving this problem?

Thanks in advance

[NormanRouxel]

It's Actinic picking up that src= bit, assuming you've got a local filename and massaging the filename to point to acatalog.

Try

document.write(unescape("%3Cscript s" + "rc='" + gaJsHost + "google-analytics.com/ga.js' type='text/javascript'%3E%3C/script%3E"));

[tomevans]

Hi Norman, thanks for that idea, I can see why that should/would work, I've tried it but sadly it didn't work, the acatalog still gets inserted.

[mattc]

in the sort term, why not use the older urchin.js script - that works fine

[NormanRouxel]

OK. It was the .js that was fooling Actinic. Try:

document.write(unescape("%3Cscript src='" + gaJsHost + "google-analytics.com/ga" + "." + "js' type='text/javascript'%3E%3C/script%3E"));</script>

I tested this here and it worked fine.

[tomevans]

Thanks Norman, that's worked