: How can I get stats for what 3rd-party sites have embedded our iframe widget? Say we've produced a widget for other sites to use, like so: <iframe src="http://example.com/whatever.php" frameBorder="0"

@XinRu657

If you have not modified the tracking snippet, this traffic will typically end up on your client's Traffic Sources > Referrals report - unless the widget is embedded in a document served over SSL or the user-agent is configured not to send the referrer header. (change the embed code to src="//example.com/whatever.php" if possible)

This may be acceptable (particularly if you have set up a separate profile for tracking the widget) but you can get more reliable results if you use Javascript from within the embedding document to pass the actual referrer to your widget.

Embed Code

<iframe frameBorder="0" width="200" height="300" scrolling="no" onload="this.src='//example.com/whatever.php?ref='+encodeURIComponent(window.location);"></iframe>


Widget Document

<!-- ga.js snippet -->
<script type="text/javascript">

var _gaq = _gaq || [];
_gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-XXXXX-X']);
<?php
if (
array_key_exists('ref', $_GET) &&
$_GET['ref']
){
?>
_gaq.push(['_setReferrerOverride', '<?php echo $_GET['ref']; ?>' );
<?php
}
?>
_gaq.push(['_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>
<!-- eof ga.js snippet -->


Note: This method could use some polish - the iframe call isn't semantically valid HTML (though example in question was not either).

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@Alves908

You might be able to use GA's _trackPageview, and grab the domain of the referrer via javascript(something like j=document.referrer, _trackPageview(j)) maybe.

Haven't tried that myself, but have used custom _trackPageview('Page Descriptors') before.

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@Angela700

I would add a single pixel image into the HTML that that iframe is using. Check your raw access logs for each time the image has been accessed and extract the unique domains / IP's from the logs. You may be able to use the image tracking feature on getclicky.com over the javascript to have the stats in their application / interface

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@Caterina187

Do you do server log file analysis, if so the simplest (hacky) way would be to track the requests for image content within the widget.

I had quick google and this thread seems pertinent to your problem

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