Google Analytics missing __utmz cookie

Question

I have universal analytics installed on my website, and want to parse the __utmz cookie to get referral info. However, I never see this cookie set.

Has something changed? Any reason this isn't set?

I do see the _ga cookie when I browse my site, and I see the __utmz cookie in my browser cache if I go to other sites.

I checked out the docs, and don't see any reference to this changing recently, so a bit stumped.

Answer 1

Universal Analytics doesn't create any __utm* cookies.

However, you can use Universal Analytics code (analytics.js) AND the traditional code (ga.js) simultaneously on your site. This will allow you to populate your UA profile and scrape the values from __utmz.