Setting up Analytics on a Site that Uses Frames For Some Content

[annasus]

I work with a real estate agent and he uses strings from another tool to populate the listings on his site.

In an attempt to be able to track traffic to both the framed pages and the non-framed pages he has two sets of analytics code on his site - one inside the frame and one for the regular part of the site.

(there's also a third that the company who hosts his site and provides all these other tools put on his site - but I don't think that's really important to this conversation).

Not only is it confusing looking at the analytics data, his bounce rate is down right unmanageable. As soon as anyone clicks on any of the listings they've bounced away.

Here's a page - all of those listings below " Here are the most recent Toronto Beaches Real Estate Listings" are part of a frame.

http://eastendtorontohomes.com/toronto-beach-real-estate-search/

I'm not really sure what to do about it or how to deal with it? Anyone out there got any good advice?

And just in case you're wondering there aren't any other options - apart from spending thousands to build his own database thingie. We've thought about that (as other agents in the city have done that), but just aren't sure it's worth it. And, quite frankly he doesn't want to spend the money.

[EricaMcGillivray]

Wow, that sounds like a crazy mess. My first question would be: why does there need to be two tracking codes? To what end does it matter? What analytics are being served by having two codes instead of using one?

I would use only one tracking code and then set up a filter for looking at content outside the frames and inside the frames if that data is still relevant to what the site owner's looking for.