We are going to launch JS based widgets which webmasters (any site) will be putting on their site by embedding a small code snippet like :

<iframe src="SOURCE_PATH" frameborder="0" width="300px" height="150px"  scrolling="no" id="cd_frame"></iframe>

Inside the widget there are three links and we need to track how many clicks are happening on them from the external sites where the widget is going to get used.

If I simply put the code which GA provides will that work? OR do I need to make any changes?

Thanks.

We are going to launch JS based widgets which webmasters (any site) will be putting on their site by embedding a small code snippet like :

<iframe src="SOURCE_PATH" frameborder="0" width="300px" height="150px"  scrolling="no" id="cd_frame"></iframe>

Inside the widget there are three links and we need to track how many clicks are happening on them from the external sites where the widget is going to get used.

If I simply put the code which GA provides will that work? OR do I need to make any changes?

Thanks.

• javascript
• iframe
• google-analytics

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you should be able to track from your iframe as it would appear to google analytics as a regular page. your issue would be knowing what iframe you were tracking. if you can pass a unique id via the iframe url then you should be able to add a custom parameter to track the different sites.

eg

<iframe src="SOURCE_PATH?uniquetrackingid=123" frameborder="0" width="300px" 
height="150px" scrolling="no" id="cd_frame"></iframe>

information about custom tracking codes can be found here http://www.google./support/analytics/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=55585