Is there an elegant way to track multiple domains under separate accounts with google analytics?

Posted by J_M_J on Pro Webmasters See other posts from Pro Webmasters or by J_M_J
Published on 2012-06-11T17:57:35Z Indexed on 2012/06/12 16:49 UTC
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I have a situation where a content management system uses the same template for multiple websites with different domain names and I can't make a separate template for each. However, each website needs to be tracked with Google analytics. Would this be appropriate to track each domain like this by putting in some conditional code? And would this be robust enough not to break? Is there a more elegant way to do this?

<script type="text/javascript">
  var _gaq = _gaq || [];
  switch (location.hostname){
    case 'www.aaa.com':
        _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-xxxxxxx-1']);
        break;
    case 'www.bbb.com':
        _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-xxxxxxx-2']);
        break;
    case 'www.ccc.com':
        _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-xxxxxxx-3']);
        break;
  }

  _gaq.push(['_trackPageview']);

  (function() {
    var ga = document.createElement('script'); ga.type = 'text/javascript'; ga.async = true;
    ga.src = ('https:' == document.location.protocol ? 'https://ssl' : 'http://www') + '.google-analytics.com/ga.js';
    (document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0] || document.getElementsByTagName('body')[0]).appendChild(ga);
  })();

</script>

Just to be clear, each website is a separate domain name and must be tracked separately, NOT different domains with same pages on one analytics profile.

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