I sent out links (read-only) to a number of people and am curious if there is a way to see whether people are actually going out and viewing that document. I understand it likely won't have names for everyone/anyone that looks at it, but I'd be interested at least in knowing how many hits it got to make sure that at least some of those I sent it too actually looked at it.
Google Docs: Is there any way to tell if people have opened a document that you have shared on Google Docs?
google drive;sharing
This page describes a method to do so.  Track Visitors To Google Docs; Know When People Open & Read Your Documents It suggests to add a blank image to the document which can then be counted using statcounter.com