Multiple Trackers (Synchronous)

General questions
1

Hi,

I have a site that needs multiple trackers (from different Piwik installs)…unfortunately I am running Piwik 1.12 so I must use the synchronous tracker in order to do this (or so I’ve read) However I am having trouble finding any documentation on how to do this. I (through much searching) have found the synchronous tracking code snippet, but I dont know what/how to modify this so I can implement multiple trackers, is it simply having one synchronous and the other asynchronous or do I need both to be synchronous and change how the trackers are named?

Any guidance would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
-Rob

2

Hi there,

please see: JavaScript Tracking Client: Integrate - Matomo Analytics (formerly Piwik Analytics) - Developer Docs - v3

3

So my code would look something like this (because I cant use piwikAsyncInit)?


 <script type="text/javascript">
        var pkBaseURL = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://domain.com/" : "http://domian.com/");
        document.write(unescape("%3Cscript src='" + pkBaseURL + "piwik.js' type='text/javascript'%3E%3C/script%3E"));
        </script><script type="text/javascript">
        try {
            var piwikTracker = Piwik.getTracker("http://URL_1/piwik.php", 1);
            piwikTracker.trackPageView();
            var piwik2 = Piwik.getTracker("http://URL_2/piwik.php", 4);
            piwik2.trackPageView();
        } catch( err ) {}
 </script>

My concern is loading piwik.js, will there be conflict loading this from two separate servers? (I doubt they are running the exact same platform version)…also how should I handle loading piwik.js from from two domains, the above only addresses two domains for piwik.php.

Thanks
-Rob

4

Okay It looks like the other tracker changed the name of piwik.php and piwik.js and also customized the Piwik object name in piwik.js…which is good news, except I think I still need to use the synchronous code since they are still using paq despite all their changes. Any way around this or am I stuck with the synchronous code?

-Rob