I'm looking to set up Google Analytics for a system we have. Essentially, we have a multi tenant system where everything shares a single code base but might have extra pages or not.
What I think I'm looking to do is listed on Google's documentation for cross domain tracking. However, each site / subdomain would be considered a different site, so I think I can leave out the bit about transferring visitor data between domains. I don't need to know if I user has come from site A to site B. I'm happy to consider it a unique user. It would be rare to happen, anyway, due to how the site is created.
Host names for the sites that come to the application can be in the format of:
- abc.mydomain.com
- def.mydomain.com
- something-different.com
- abc.something-different.com
- ... anything
I realise that the first thought is probably 'If you say they're different sites, then track them with different accounts' but we're hoping to have the analytics for the entire application under one tracking ID, with profiles that have filters applied to them for the different sites.
This question is similar: One multi-domain analytics profile, or one analytics profiles per domain? but the answer from Jeff talks about the solution for different domains and the solution for different subdomains. Not both.
From the documentation, I think I just need to have the following
_gaq.push(['_setDomainName', 'none']);
So:
- Am I off the mark with what I'm proposing to do?
- Does anyone have experience with this sort of scenario - and what was your solution?
- I say I'm looking to disregard the visitor data transfer, but is it something I need?
- By setting '_setDomainName' to 'none', does this make the domain on the account mean nothing?
Thanks in advance.
