Subdomain pdfs - do you track them?

[Bio-RadAbs]

We've enabled event tracking to monitor clicks to pdfs on our website. All of these pdfs are hosted in a subdomain.

The thing is, we offer some valuable pdfs that get a lot of traffic from search engines but I can't track them on Google Analytics. Do you track such pdfs?

I can't place tracking code as they are pdfs on a subdomain.

Thoughts?

[MatthewBarby]

There is a solution for this by using server-side PHP tracking to monitor your PDFs, even when they're on subdomains - here's an awesome tutorial that shows you exactly how to do it - http://www.lunametrics.com/blog/2013/06/04/tracking-pdfs-google-analytics-server-side/

Hope that helped

[Bio-RadAbs]

Thank you!

[Kara.Wallace]

Do you have your Google Analytics configured to track data across your domain and subdomain? The default analytics code is set up to track data for a single domain. To manage tracking data on both the domain and subdomain, you need to modify your analytics code.

Once you have your analytics configured to track both the domain and subdomain, you "should" be able to setup event tracking to keep track of downloads.

I hope this helps.

Mike

[MatthewBarby]

No problem