: Two Google Analytics Codes - both not collecting correctly I have inherited a site which has two GA-UA codes. These are setup like this // first code ga('create', 'UA-XXXXXXXX-1', 'auto'); ga('send',

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I have inherited a site which has two GA-UA codes.

These are setup like this

// first code
ga('create', 'UA-XXXXXXXX-1', 'auto');
ga('send', 'pageview');

//second code
ga('create', 'UA-XXXXXXXX-1', {'name':'second'});
ga('second.send', 'pageview');


I have no idea why they are setup like this and indeed do not understand the syntax of the second tracking code

The following can be observed

THE FIRST CODE


Custom events working and being successfully collected
Linked successfully to Adwords
Only has a few months of data and therefore we don't want to use this


THE SECOND CODE


Does not record custom events
Can't link to Adwords
Has years of data attached to it that we want to use


The plan is to just use the second code

For complete brevity custom events are being triggered like this

ga('send', 'event', 'Contact', 'contact-form', 'Goals');


My question is this

"Because it has lots of historical data we wish to use code two but it is not collecting custom events. How do I get the second code to collect custom events so we can retire the first code? "

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