Is there a way to track/record via Google Analytics visitors that visit my site via Flipboard?

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I've been sniffing through my Apache log files and noticed hits which mention

FlipboardProxy/1.1; +http://flipboard.com/browserproxy

Is there a way to track/ID these users via Google Analytics so that I can understand what percentage of my visits are via Flipboard?

Is flipboard not already showing up in your referrals report? — carlsoja, Dec 07 '12 at 15:58
Flipboard does not "refer" users to sites, its loads the site within the app. — antr, Dec 07 '12 at 19:37

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 07 '12 at 22:39

From what i read on flipboard:

Flipboard uses a proxy service to fetch, validate, and prepare certain elements of websites for presentation through the Flipboard Application.

Retrieving parts of your website to present it in flipboar, they are not actually real visits to your site.

But if you still want to track those requests in analytics then you would need to write a php that sniffs user agent and trigger a gif request to analytics.

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Dec 07 '12 at 20:41

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IF they're not showing up in the Browser & OS Report; they're probably not running javascript and/or block GA.

answered Dec 07 '12 at 20:41

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score 0 · Answer 3 · edited Apr 09 '14 at 21:30

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Something along those lines might end up here. Right now it shows data at a snapshot only though.

http://ripl.io/flipboard-analytics/

edited Apr 09 '14 at 21:30

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answered Sep 12 '13 at 02:13

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Is there a way to track/record via Google Analytics visitors that visit my site via Flipboard?

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