I have a page with 24 links that each open up a .html file in a modal window with Fancybox, and each .html file has a video embedded in it. How do I track to see who is opening which videos?
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I have a page with 24 links that each open up a .html file in a modal window with Fancybox, and each .html file has a video embedded in it. How do I track to see who is opening which videos?
How google analytics works
You put a by Google provided javascript (the tracking code) on your page .
Everytime the page is loaded, the javascript is executed and a hit is recorded by Google.
How fancybox works
You can use fancybox in different ways but the default behaviour is that you feed it a link and it will open the content of this link inside an iframe
If you know how iframes work, you should know that they just load/display a page inside a page. But because they load an entire page, the by google provided javascript will also load.
Answer
So to finally answer your question…,
If you use fancybox by default (loading content inside an iframe) google analytics will already record the clicks on those pages.
If not you should check out the note below.
Note: This is how it works with the original Google Analytics tracking code. If you are using the new Asynchronous tracking you should really check out this page as it explains in detail how to hook custom events etc: http://code.google.com/intl/nl-NL/apis/analytics/docs/tracking/asyncUsageGuide.html