Captures HTML5 video events for Google Analytics
These events are supported:
- Play
- Paused
- Percentage of video viewed (25%, 50%, 75% or 100%)
- Google Analytics
Install using Bower: bower install analytics-html5-video
Include bower_components/analytics-html5-video.js
in your HTML file after your Google Analytics code.
Example:
<!-- The actual video -->
<video id="my-video-id" title="My video" src="/path/to/video.mp4" controls></video>
<!-- Google Analytics -->
<script type="text/javascript">
<!--//--><![CDATA[//><!--
(function(i,s,o,g,r,a,m){i["GoogleAnalyticsObject"]=r;i[r]=i[r]||function(){(i[r].q=i[r].q||[]).push(arguments)},i[r].l=1*new Date();a=s.createElement(o),m=s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0];a.async=1;a.src=g;m.parentNode.insertBefore(a,m)})(window,document,"script","//www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js","ga");ga("create", "[YOUR_GA_CODE]", {"cookieDomain":"auto"});ga("send", "pageview");
//--><!]]>
</script>
<!-- Tracking Support -->
<script type="text/javascript" src="bower_components/analytics-html5-video/analytics-html5-video.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
document.addEventListener('DOMContentLoaded', init, false)
var videoId = document.getElementById('my-video-id')
var videoTitle = videoId.getAttribute('title')
</script>
Alternatively, you can just drop the script from this repo into your project.
- Matt West [email protected]
This project is mostly a wrapper for this gist from placeless: