Comments on: How to set up Google Analytics

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Optimized Google Analytics asynchronous tracking code — Sun, 31 Oct 2010 09:21:24 +0000

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By: Damian Davila Rojas

Damian Davila Rojas — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 03:27:48 +0000

Excellent post Antti! Real good breakdown of the steps with visual aids.
Just one last step that I would add is to check if the GA code is installed properly in ALL pages. Sometimes the code it is indeed installed but not in all pages. This happens to newbies and web developers who forget about making sure that the code is in all places of the website.

Using the SiteScan tool from EpikOne, it is very easy to find out that the Contek’s website did not have the Google Analytics correctly installed throughout the whole website.

Here's how to use this tool:
http://idaconcpts.com/2009/10/29/how-to-check-i…

By: Antti Kokkonen

Antti Kokkonen — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 10:07:11 +0000

Some say, why use plugin when you can just copy the code in? I think the ease of use and the benefits (link tracking and all) make it well worth while.

The best thing about Joost's plugin is that it filters your own visits out of the data (option can be turned off if one wants of course).

By: Kevin Tea

Kevin Tea — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 21:20:35 +0000

You have come up trumps again, Antti! I was despairing of Google Analytics as it showed fewer visitors than had left comments. I obviously screwed up in how I placed the code but although I write about techy cloud stuff, I am not that techy. I have now loaded the plug in and shall look at what transpires. Many thanks.

By: Antti Kokkonen

Antti Kokkonen — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 10:20:07 +0000

In general stats generated on webhost count “everything”, including your own and returning visits, sometimes even bots, like search engine crawlers. So In my experience Analytics is more accurate.

With the plugin I mention on the post you can even filter your own visits out of the stats which is awesome (something that can't be done on webhost stats). The important thing is to analyze stats within one service, not the stats from two different services.

By: Julius

Julius — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 06:49:32 +0000

Thank you for this tutorial! It really helps beginners like me in finding options for analyzing website statistics. Will also recommend this to friends.

By: Shannon O

Shannon O — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 05:44:05 +0000

I have found that my google analytics stats are greatly contrasted by the stats generated by my webhost – which uses Awstats any idea why and which is more accurate?