# Pixel tracking for RSS and email

Some of your best readers never load your site. They read you in an RSS client or in an email, where JavaScript does not run and the embed script has no way to report anything. A tracking pixel is the old, simple answer: a 1×1 gif that records a hit when the client loads the image.

It records a **normal hit**, subject to exactly the same rules as the script — no cookies, nothing kept about the person.

This is in beta, and it is worth being honest about what that means here. Image caching and image blocking both cut the other way, so the numbers undercount. There is no RSS subscriber estimate and no email open rate, because neither can be derived honestly from this.

## Where the URLs live

Open a site's **Community** tab. The pixel URLs and ready-made snippets are there. You can track the site as a whole, or pass a path so the hits land on the right page.

## The basic pixel

```html
<img src="https://tinylytics.app/pixel/YOUR_EMBED_CODE.gif" alt="" width="1" height="1" />
```

## Per-post pixel

```html
<img src="https://tinylytics.app/pixel/YOUR_EMBED_CODE.gif?path=/your-post" alt="" width="1" height="1" />
```

The resulting hits appear on Overview alongside everything else — Community is only where you copy the URL from, not where the numbers end up.