Start Tracking Your JavaScript Disabled Visitors With GA.CFC

Google Analytics depends on JavaScript to make image requests to GA servers, and therefore only tracks your JavaScript enabled visitors. This is why Remy Sharp wrote a blog post a few weeks ago called "The Missing Stat: noscript" where he outlined some work he'd done on how to track your noscript visitors with Google Analytics and PHP.

If you read the comments on Remy's post, you will see that his PHP code was ported to .NET by Erik Zaadi which is available at Github here and called "GA.NET". Erik also wrote about his project here.

So after reading all of this I decided to port the code to ColdFusion, but after reviewing the code Remy wrote I started to see some real potential for handing the GA tracking logic for the image requests made to GA servers with server side code. In other words, you should be able to track page views, events, and more on your visitors that have JavaScript disabled.

So I started GA.CFC for ColdFusion and put it on GitHub, it's basically Remy's PHP code ported to CF, with the one difference being that when using GA.CFC you must provide the domain hash which GA generates to GA.CFC, which I guess Remy thought was a random number; his code worked anyhow apparently though.

I plan to extract GA's hash function later so that you won't have to input the domain hash, and I have plenty more updates planned for the future, but I decided to upload GA.CFC to GitHub now so that others can use it in the meantime.

Currently you can track pageviews, but each page view is considered a new visitor. Please read the README file for GA.CFC for usage instructions.

Get GA.CFC at GitHub here