: Best stats tool for cross-domain tracking We build a webapp that allows users to run the app under their own subdomain. So we run the app under search.domainX.com, search.domainY.com and so

@Nickens628

You can send tracking data to multiple Analytics accounts using the asynchronous tracking API to send multiple commands. For example:

<script type="text/javascript">

var _gaq = _gaq || [];

//Send data to the client's Google Analytics account
_gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-12345-1']);
_gaq.push(['_trackPageview']);

//Send data to your Google Analytics account
_gaq.push(['b._setAccount', 'UA-12345-2']);
_gaq.push(['b._setDomainName', 'none']);
_gaq.push(['b._setAllowHash', 'false']);
_gaq.push(['b._setAllowLinker', true]);
_gaq.push(['b._trackPageview']);

(function() {
var ga = document.createElement('script'); ga.type = 'text/javascript'; ga.async = true;
ga.src = ('https:' == document.location.protocol ? 'https://ssl' : 'http://www') + '.google-analytics.com/ga.js';
var s = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(ga, s);
})();

</script>


This will send data to their Analytics account (UA-12345-1) for visits to that domain only, and it will send data to your Analytics account (UA-12345-2) for all sites using your app, so long as you include the code on every installation.

The best way to implement this would be to build Google Analytics into your app, and prompt users for their 'UA-12345-1' Analytics account code. That way, they won't have to add Analytics code themselves, which might risk messing up your setup.

You should also mention to them that you're tracking their usage of the app in order to improve your product, either directly or in your terms and conditions.

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@Welton855

Piwik is an open source, user friendly web analytics free solution.

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@Goswami781

I assume that you have access to the servers behind the search.*.com domains. In that case you could just combine the log files for each domain into one big one. Then the question becomes "which is the best tool for getting stats out of log files?", which is a separate question!

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