For those of us who work with the web daily.
To put it simply, Google’s Ajax APIs are cool and useful! I love checking out the Google Code site and seeing new APIs listed, just shows they’re really put a lot of effort into this area of their business.
Google has their different APIs categorized, one of these categories is Ajax, I wanted to write about these APIs in particular as they have real-world uses that can get off the ground quickly.
Google Analytics has become the default web-analytics provider being a powerful, free, and easy to use service offered by a well-known reputable company. Aside from being pretty great; using Google Analytics on your website/webapp still means it is third-party integration. Third-party integrations tend lack control on the side of the client or user, Google Analytics is no exception here.
I’ve developed a method of integrating Google Analytics which allows the user/client to regain control over the loading and execution while not blocking other JavaScript code on the page from executing. This method requires either YUI or jQuery to be present but can be adapted to work with other JavaScript libraries.
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