Google Analytics Code

[smak786110]

Hi !

Just wanted to ask, when you subsribe with the GOOGLE ANALYTICS, where do you insert its code ??
Is it in all of your website ? or just your index front page ??

I inserted only on front page, is that ok ??

 

[SlickWorld]

If you are using WordPress, you'll want to place it in the footer. It needs to be on every page as a lot of visitors will never see your front (index) page and wouldn't be counted.

If you use WordPress, you may want to grab a server-side statistics plugin like FireStats.

 

[ds2007]

i think its okie

 

[smak786110]

am using wordpress, and have pasted the code in footer i think.....
BUT

its few months now, today I went to my cPanel and under my webalizer USAGE Statistics it shows I can average users of 150 daily ????

In google is gives me 20 to 30 visitors daily ???

can please someone explain to be what the hack's going on with it....

 

[SlickWorld]

am using wordpress, and have pasted the code in footer i think.....
BUT

its few months now, today I went to my cPanel and under my webalizer USAGE Statistics it shows I can average users of 150 daily ????

In google is gives me 20 to 30 visitors daily ???

can please someone explain to be what the hack's going on with it....

This could be for a few reasons. Many people run script blocking softwares that prevent scripts like Google Analytics from running. This is why I recommended server-side analytics tools like FireStats. You can always use both, as they are free, but you'll quickly grow frustrated with the difference in stats.

 

[smak786110]

isnt Cpanel server side ?

But its figures are un-believeable !
150 average visitors per day for a just opened blog ???

 

[Timmy11B]

The google analytics code should be placed before the </body> tag on every page of your site. With wordpress, this is done by just adding the code to the footer.php file (before the /body tag).

The difference in stats is probably due to different measurement definitions. The 150 may be impressions or visitors and the google stats may be unique visitors. Find out the definitions that each stat program uses for measurement.

 

[ds2007]

isnt Cpanel server side ?

But its figures are un-believeable !
150 average visitors per day for a just opened blog ???

different stat scripts records visitors differently
google analytics code filters bot visitors so that must be causing differences

 

[smak786110]

bot visitors ???

 

[ds2007]

bot -> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_bot

so i guess you have to check your stats and distinguish your real unique visitors

 

[smak786110]

.So I think i'll stick with Google Analytics statistics, hmmm ?????

 

[ihatebeans]

isnt Cpanel server side ?

But its figures are un-believeable !
150 average visitors per day for a just opened blog ???

Mine got 500 the first day

But that is a good number too!
My Google shows like 20 Max each day.
Its annoying. Use AWStats

 

[serium]

Google Analytics is providing a new tracking code that will detect whether the web page it's tracking is an HTTPS page, and will select the appropriate URL to connect back to the Google Analytics server either in HTTP or HTTPS.

This will prevent your web browser to display a warning message if the web page contains a mixture of HTTPS and non-HTTPS URLs.

 

[Monsterman]

I have the code in VideoFanatics.com but it will not read it? Where would you guys add it to? Thanks.

 

[Monsterman]

Any feedback on this would be great. Thanks.

 

[PAUL-B]

.So I think i'll stick with Google Analytics statistics, hmmm ?????

Use both Analytics & FireStats. It'd give you better idea of your sites stat once you get used to the differences & parameters.

 

[monaco]

Google Analytics tracking code is javascript based...as long as they don't provide some kind of API for doing visitor tracking server side, you won't see visitors who have javascript disabled.