I wonder how people check open-rates on electronic mailings when they use desktop software instead of web-based, which has the option built-in. I've tried to put an image as a target in Google analytics, but unlike a PDF or HTML file you appareantly can't check image downloads. Any ideas? The question: how to check the number of image downloads/request? Webalizer: same hear: PDFs, HTML, CSS but no images.
You could maybe have all the links in the page redirected via a script that has analytics code.. so instead of www.sitename.com/products www.sitename.com/marketing_redirect.php?goto=/products I know this doesnt answer your question completely.. You're talking about a web bug i presume so you can see who opens the actual mail.... You could include at the top of the mailing a link to view it online in case they can see it properly? And you could track some that way? I wonder is it possible to have a small iframe in the mailing that points to a page with tracker code? Not sure.....
it doesn't really matter who but how many open. I tried something like ...image.jpg?=try perhaps it'll show up in Webalizer now? When you add ?... it still shows up the actual image so... e-mails: prefer no javascript, third party programs or attachments.
I would imagine it would show up in webalizer? if you had an obvious name for it.... you could ( for a start ) manually search through the logs?...