Comments on: Why Google Analytics Can’t Run in Facebook iFrame Apps

By: Emkayy

Emkayy — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 10:38:00 +0000

You can add Google Analytics!
The only limitation is that you won’t get the referers since facebook will always be the referer.

Here is an article about how it works:

By: SMSEO

SMSEO — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 02:13:00 +0000

In reply to Ed Bisquera.

Hi Ed – I was able to find where there are Google Analytics fb tags, but I
haven’t yet figured out the code on implimentation.

By: Ed Bisquera

Ed Bisquera — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 00:48:00 +0000

In reply to SMSEO. Any further developments on this subject?

By: SMSEO

SMSEO — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 00:50:00 +0000

In reply to J. Ray Sparks.

Hi J. – your comment makes sense to me, except that I have yet to be able to
get data feedback via Analytics.

can you give me an example where within the code I would put the Analytics
code?

By: J. Ray Sparks

J. Ray Sparks — Mon, 14 Mar 2011 15:06:00 +0000

This doesn’t make any sense to me. Why don’t you just install the Google JS into the base page you’re loading into the parent iFrame on Facebook? You could even have nested iFrames within your app and have different instances of Google Analytics running in each, so as to measure user interaction with different areas of your app. I’m not sure what you recent articles on the subject are really about other than misunderstanding the way nested frames relate to measurement.

By: Jason Padvorac

Jason Padvorac — Tue, 08 Mar 2011 04:23:00 +0000

I just helped someone set up Google Analytics with the Static HTML app ). The comment thread is here:

I’ll copy-paste the instructions I wrote there for convenience. :)

– Jason

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You’ll want to use a Google Analytics snippet that is set up for “multiple domains.”

The good news is that for this particular instance, probably all you need to do is add two lines of code to the standard Google Analytics snippet and you’ll be fine. Or you can just copy-paste the snippet below, add your specific tracking id, and you’ll probably be fine. Let me know if it doesn’t work!

var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www.");document.write(unescape("%3Cscript src='" + gaJsHost + "google-analytics.com/ga.js' type='text/javascript'%3E%3C/script%3E"));

try{var pageTracker = _gat._getTracker("UA-12345-1"); // Replace UA-12345-1 with your code pageTracker._setDomainName("none"); // ** THIS LINE IS NEW! pageTracker._setAllowLinker(true); // ** THIS LINE IS ALSO NEW! pageTracker._trackPageview(); } catch(err) {}