Track Adwords Script Runs with Google Analytics

The other day, I was looking into how I could report on how many times my AdWords scripts were running. I figured that since I use Google Analytics reporting for everything else, maybe I should try to use it for reporting on my scripts as well.

So using some information gathered around the web, I put together this simple script to push data into Google Analytics. This will register each script run as a pageview. If you want to keep track of account ids where the script is running, you will need to add AdWordsApp.currentAccount().getCustomerId() somewhere in the CAMPAIGN or PAGE values. Once you have this code in your script, just make a call to beacon(); at the beginning of your code. And since many tracking systems mimic the Google Analytics tracking format, I'm sure this can be easily adapted to other systems.

Thanks,
Russ

/********************************
* Track Script Runs in Google Analytics
* Created By: Russ Savage
* FreeAdWordsScripts.com
********************************/
function beacon() {
  var TAG_ID = 'UA-XXXXXXXX-X';
  var CAMPAIGN_SOURCE = 'adwords';
  var CAMPAIGN_MEDIUM = 'scripts';
  var CAMPAIGN_NAME = 'Your Script Name And Version';
  var HOSTNAME = 'www.freeadwordsscripts.com';
  var PAGE = '/Some/Virtual/Page/Similar/To/Campaign/Name/Probably';
  var DOMAIN_LINK = 'http://'+HOSTNAME+PAGE;

  //Pulled from: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/105034/how-to-create-a-guid-uuid-in-javascript
  var uuid = 'xxxxxxxx-xxxx-4xxx-yxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx'.replace(/[xy]/g, 
    function(c) {var r = Math.random()*16|0,v=c=='x'?r:r&0x3|0x8;return v.toString(16);});
  
  var url = 'http://www.google-analytics.com/collect?';
  var payload = {
    'v':1,'tid':TAG_ID,'cid':uuid,    
    't':'pageview','cs':CAMPAIGN_SOURCE,'cm':CAMPAIGN_MEDIUM,'cn':CAMPAIGN_NAME,
    'dl':DOMAIN_LINK
  };
  var qs = '';
  for(var key in payload) {
    qs += key + '=' + encodeURIComponent(payload[key]) + '&';
  }
  url += qs.substring(0,qs.length-1);
  UrlFetchApp.fetch(url);
}