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321  - CREATE A FIREFOX KEYWORD TO SKIP THE ANALYTICS LOGIN BOX

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If on the other hand you host all module content within the module code itself, you can make use of

a special Google Analytics library available for gadgets. You can then make a call to track page views,

or to track specic events in your module, like clicks (please note that some attributes necessary to

submit your gadget to the directory, like the author email, have been omitted from this example; see

 for a more complete example):

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>

<Module>

<ModulePrefs title="A Clickable Div!" ... >

<Require feature="analytics" />

</ModulePrefs>

<Content type="html">

<![CDATA[

<script type="text/javascript">

// This line tracks the gadget in Google Analytics

_IG_Analytics("YOUR_ANALYTICS_ID", "/mygadget");

</script>

<div onclick="_IG_Analytics('YOUR_ANALYTICS_ID', '/mygadget/click')">

Clicks on this div will be tracked

</div>

]]>

</Content>

</Module>

Note the three bold parts of this XML gadget code. First, the Require element prepares the gadget

for Google Analytics tracking. Second, a script element embeds a call to an Analytics function to

register the page view; the value /mygadget is a string that you can dene yourself that will be shown

as a path in Google Analytics reports. Third, the onclick event of the divisor element near the end of

the module ...