YouTube Views Not Registering

  • We are using the lyte shortcode in our custom theme to embed youtube videos across our site, for example.

    echo do_shortcode(‘[lyte id=”das8sd8yda” /]’);

    What we have recently noticed is that no views are being registered for these videos in the YouTube analytics. Is there a way to fix this?

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  • Plugin Author Optimizing Matters

    (@optimizingmatters)

    Don’t know; how are views normally registered in YouTube Analytics? Are you using a plugin/ javascript code to do so?

    Thread Starter massivejoes

    (@massivejoes)

    A view is normally registered in YouTube Analytics automatically once the video has been watched, we aren’t using any plugin or javascript to do this.

    You can see in this article what causes a view not to be counted -> https://boostlikes.com/blog/2014/08/youtube-video-views-embeds-count

    Would the way the plugin embed the code be stopping this?

    Plugin Author Optimizing Matters

    (@optimizingmatters)

    the problem likely is this one:

    Views from an embedded video set to autoplay may or may not count.

    LYTE uses autoplay because the “click to play” is used to trigger the LYTE video loading, so that click confirms the desire of the viewer to play the video.

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