Google Analytics - urchinTracker(); - object expected javascript error fix

Okay,

Recently I ran into a problem where every page of my site had a javascript error on it. The error was coming from Google Analytics.

A line as such:
urchinTracker();

in the following code:

<script src="[URL]https://ssl.google-analytics.com/urchin.js[/URL]" type="text/javascript">
</script>
<script type="text/javascript">
_uacct = "XXXX-XXXX-XXXX";
urchinTracker();
</script>

Code (markup):

I searched and searched and finally found someone that was able to answer the question in the french Google Groups (stranglely enough the answer was written in English)

The answer turned out to be a HOSTS file I had downloaded on my own computer was blocking Google Analytics and since the previous line:
<script src="https://ssl.google-analytics.com/urchin.js" type="text/javascript">
calls Google-Analytics, this was causing the error.

So, if you are receiving this same error from either IE6 or IE7 Beta then check your hosts file and comment out the references to Google-Analytics.

Hope it helps,

 

Nice Find, will be usefull for many

 

I had the same problem on one of my pages. HOSTS wasn't the problem, though. The problem was Operator Error: I had urchintracker() instead of urchinTracker().

 

Definitly going to use this

 

I take this as a useful note for analytic problems.

bsrgds.

 

You know how old this topic is? ._. plus Google Analytics has a new tracking code you can and should use

 

this error sometime comes in google analytics...