Thanks @lpfaust it's appreciated. I'm sad to say that what your asking for is exactly what I wrote last week. see Tracking Pixel Article. Unfortunatley it failed because steemit caches and proxies all remote content, so the requests very rarely make it back to the server to be tracked. I was chatting to @jesta last night and it's something he also wishes he could work around so we will to try to raise the issue and see if steemit is willing to allow verified request to bypass the proxy, but in the slim chance they do I doubt it will be any time soon.