Tracking Facebook events by using Google Analytics

Facebook evens

Facebook SDK has subscribe method to subscribe some events.
For example, liked / remove liked / add comment / remove comment

https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/javascript/FB.Event.subscribe/

I will introduce you this utility JavaScript Library to tracking facebook event by using Google Analytics GaTrackingFbEvent

GaTrackingFbEvent

Utility Class of tracking some Facebook events by using Google Analyitcs

Outline

This script enable to track some Facebook event such as like, unlike, add comment, remove comment and send message.

Initialize

var gaFbEvent = new GoolgeAnalyticsFbEvent({
  like          : true, // when set false, do not track
  unlike        : true,
  addComment    : true,
  removeComment : true,
  sendMessage   : true,
  callback      : function(res){
    // callback fire when these event was called.
  }
});
// subscribe Facebook event to tracking by Google Analytics
gaFbEvent.subscribe();

Usage

load Facebook SDK asynchronously

<!-- load this script -->
<script src="./GoolgeAnalyticsFbEvent.js"></script>

<script>
  (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', 'UA-XXXXXXX-X', ${YOUR_DOMAIN});
  ga('send', 'pageview');

</script>

<script>
window.fbAsyncInit = function(){

  FB.init({
    appId      : ${FACEBOOK_APP_ID},
    status     : true,
    cookie     : true,
    xfbml      : true
  });

  var gaFbEvent = new GoolgeAnalyticsFbEvent({
    like          : true,
    unlike        : true,
    addComment    : true,
    removeComment : true,
    sendMessage   : true,
    callback      : function(res){
      // callback fire when these event was called.
    }
  });
  // subscribe Facebook event to tracking by Google Analytics
  gaFbEvent.subscribe();

};

</script>

<script>
  (function(d){
   var js, id = 'facebook-jssdk', ref = d.getElementsByTagName('script')[0];
   if (d.getElementById(id)) {return;}
   js = d.createElement('script'); js.id = id; js.async = true;
   js.src = "//connect.facebook.net/en_US/all.js";
   ref.parentNode.insertBefore(js, ref);
  }(document));
</script>

Check on Google Analytics

access to Google Analytics
Traffic Sources -> Social -> Plugins -> URL -> Social Source and Action

Notice

This script support Universal Analytics (analytics.js)