When you set up cross-domain measurement, you can collect data from multiple websites into a single account property. This lets you see data from different sites in the same reporting view.
In some configurations, like with 3rd party shopping carts, this is ideal. In other configurations, however, we recommend that you set up multiple views: one view for all of the traffic collected in the cross-domain measurement setup, and a separate filtered views to display data only from each individual domain. This lets you analyze the traffic from all of the different domains together in one view, and use the other views to analyze data from each domain in a separate set of reports when necessary.
In this article:Multiple domains
If you have multiple top-level domains, like www.example1.com and www.example2.com, you can set up cross-domain measurement to collect and send data from both domains to the same Analytics account property.
Subdomains
You can use cross-domain measurement to collect data from a primary domain, like www.example.com, and a subdomain, like www.subdomain.example.com, in a single Analytics account property. No additional configuration is required.
3rd party shopping carts
If you use a 3rd party shopping cart, your traffic probably has to leave your domain to complete a purchase, but you can use cross-domain measurement to measure activity through the entire checkout process, between your domain and the domain that hosts your shopping cart.
IFrame content
If you have content that displays on another domain through an iFrame or a similar technology, you can still collect data from that traffic with cross-domain measurement.
Related resources
analytics.js
- Cross-Domain Measurement (analytics.js developer documentation)
- Cross-domain measurement with Google Tag Manager
