Setting up a home site

A home site is a website that you administer. It is here where you will typically upload your SmartFrames.

You can set a site to be your home site in Account settings. Multiple home sites are also permitted.

Once you define your home site, you’ll be able to filter the results in Insights to show or hide the data coming from your home site. Additionally, in the Insights Embed Report, a home icon will be displayed next to all SmartFrames from this site.

All embedded SmartFrames fall into one of two categories: onsite embeds and offsite embeds. So what is the difference?

On-site embeds

An onsite embed is any SmartFrame that has been embedded on your home site. This is the domain you have specified in your account as being your own, such as your personal website or blog, or a business website. Our home site, for example, is smartframe.io.

Offsite embeds

An offsite embed is any SmartFrame that has been embedded away from your home site. This will usually be a SmartFrame that someone else has embedded on their website or blog by copying the embed code within your SmartFrame, although any SmartFrame that you yourself have embedded somewhere other than on your home site would also be classed as an offsite SmartFrame.

How do onsite and offsite SmartFrames differ from each other?

Onsite and offsite SmartFrames largely appear and function in the same way as each other, although there are differences.

The main difference is that onsite embeds display a Caption, whereas offsite embeds show both a Caption and Attribution.

Offsite embeds also show default SmartFrame styling at all times, whereas onsite embeds can be customized to the user’s preference. The table below shows these main differences.