How do you integrate Universal Analytics in to Chrome Extensions?

Question

The chrome extension guide has a tutorial for the old analytics install: https://developer.chrome.com/extensions/tut_analytics.html

The instructions just say to link

Answer 1

Regarding new analytics.js (as opposite to old ga.js) this example works for me:

function setupGoogleAnalytics() {
  if (!window.ga) {
    (function(){
      window.ga = function() {
        (window.ga.q = window.ga.q || []).push(arguments);
      }, window.ga.l = 1 * new Date();
      var tag = 'script';
      var a = document.createElement(tag);
      var m = document.getElementsByTagName(tag)[0];
      a.async = 1;
      a.src = 'https://www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js';
      m.parentNode.insertBefore(a, m);
    })();
    ga('create', 'UA-XXXXXXX-Y', 'auto');
    ga('set', 'checkProtocolTask', null);
  }
}

Please note that you need to add following content_security_policy snippet to the manifest.json:

{
...
  "content_security_policy": "script-src 'self' https://www.google-analytics.com; object-src 'self'"
...
}