Does setting document.domain via script interfere with Google Analytics?

Posted by Seth Petry-Johnson on Pro Webmasters See other posts from Pro Webmasters or by Seth Petry-Johnson
Published on 2010-11-05T04:01:24Z Indexed on 2011/01/05 16:59 UTC
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I have a site, www.example.com, that displays some secure content from forms.example.com in iframes. To enable cross-frame navigation, pages on both sites use JavaScript to set the document.domain to just "example.com".

I am using Google Analytics on www.example.com, but the GA site is not showing any data. It indicates that the tracking code is found (the status icon is a green checkmark), but no data is reported.

The GA profile lists the website as "www.example.com".

Is this a supported scenario? Is my script interfering with the GA code in some way?

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