title: How to track custom parameter with Google Analytics and utm.gif
body: <p><strong>The situation</strong>
  I'd like to use GA to track some serverside operations. That's why I cant make use of the GA JavaScript functions. But, as you might know, you can request the utm.gif right from your server. This already works fine.</p>
  
  <p><strong>The Problem</strong>
  I'd like to trackt custom parameters. But I have no idea how to add them in the right format to the url-request</p>
  
  <p>This one should do the custom parms. But I didn't get any results in GA.</p>
  
  <pre><code>utme=5(Init*load_success*http://www.mydomain.de)8(userstatus)9(fan)11(2)
  </code></pre>
  
  <p><strong>Full list of params:</strong></p>
  
  <pre><code>    ref   ts
      utmac   UA-XXXXXX-5
      utmcc   __utma=186215409.1789216404.1265552708.1280074861.1280493144.21;+__utmz=;
      utmcs   ISO-8859-1
      utmdt   Button
      utme    5(Init*load_success*http://www.mydomain.de)8(mycustomvar)9(mycustomvalue)11(2)
      utmfl   -
      utmhn   mydomain.de
      utmje   -
      utmn    1114675642
      utmp    button
      utmr    http://www.mydomain.de
      utmsc   -
      utmsr   -
      utmul   de-de
      utmwv   4.5.7
  </code></pre>