What i'm trying to build out is a html page that will be included on a partner site. The idea is we give the partner a JS file that then renders the html. We don't want to use an iFrame, so the new HTML would just be a with links and copy.
We want to track link usage, and i though if i added a GA tracking snippet i could use it just for event tracking. I want to avoid getting page view data from the partner site.
If you remove the line ga('send', 'pageview') from the JavaScript tracking snippet, then you won't track any pageviews.
The normal tracking snippet looks like this:
<!-- Google Analytics -->
<script>
(function(i,s,o,g,r,a,m){i['GoogleAnalyticsObject']=r;i[r]=i[r]||function(){
(i[r].q=i[r].q||[]).push(arguments)},i[r].l=1*new Date();a=s.createElement(o),
m=s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0];a.async=1;a.src=g;m.parentNode.insertBefore(a,m)
})(window,document,'script','//www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js','ga');
ga('create', 'UA-XXXXX-Y', 'auto');
ga('send', 'pageview');
</script>
<!-- End Google Analytics -->
To not track pageviews, just remove the last line like so:
<!-- Google Analytics -->
<script>
(function(i,s,o,g,r,a,m){i['GoogleAnalyticsObject']=r;i[r]=i[r]||function(){
(i[r].q=i[r].q||[]).push(arguments)},i[r].l=1*new Date();a=s.createElement(o),
m=s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0];a.async=1;a.src=g;m.parentNode.insertBefore(a,m)
})(window,document,'script','//www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js','ga');
ga('create', 'UA-XXXXX-Y', 'auto');
</script>
<!-- End Google Analytics -->