Google Analytics on Static Site Hosted by GAE

Posted by Cody Hess on Pro Webmasters See other posts from Pro Webmasters or by Cody Hess
Published on 2011-10-31T19:19:37Z Indexed on 2011/11/17 10:13 UTC
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I finagled hosting a static site on Google App Engine at http://corbyhaas.com

The HTML when visiting the URL shows some meta information and a frame to the site's actual address: http://cody-static-sites.appspot.com/corbyhaas which has the content. This is done automagically by Google App Engine.

I've set up Google Analytics by including their script in my index.html, but the report shows 100% of visits coming from referring site "corbyhaas.com", which is useless information.

Has anyone set up Google Analytics for a static GAE site? Is there a setting in my Analytics dashboard I can tweak, or is this a hazard of using Google App Engine for static content? Also, while it's not relevant here (but could be for future sites), does GAE's method of showing only meta information with frames for static data affect SEO?

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