Google Analytics tracks the referring domain (and path) for every visit by
default, so no, you shouldn't have to do anything custom.

-Charlie

On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 4:33 PM, Genny Engel <[log in to unmask]>wrote:

> You shouldn't have to do any setup for basic counts to show up.  Traffic
> coming directly from Twitter or Facebook ought to be appearing under
>    Traffic Sources -> Social -> Overview
>
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> Silk [[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2013 11:13 AM
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> Subject: [CODE4LIB] Adding Twitter to Google Analytics
>
> Hi Everyone,
>
> I am running a wordpress-powered web site and use Google Analytics to
> measure our traffic. I would like to set up Analytics so that it measures
> traffic coming from Twitter and Facebook. I see that Google Analytics can
> be set up to track social interactions, but I'm feeling overwhelmed by the
> instructions on how to set it up (
> https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/gajs/gaTrackingSocial?hl=en_GB
> ).
>
> Have any of you successfully set this up? Care to share your tips?
>
> It would be wonderful if there was a simple edit to the WP code, or a
> plugin - am I dreaming?
>
> Many thanks,
> Kim
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