Google Analytics

How to set up Google Analytics to monitor website visits

• Background: Having a website is the cool thing to do these days, but how can you know how many people are visiting your website? Where are they visiting you from? There a few trackers that can be used, and one of them is Google Analytics.
• Step 0: Have or create a google account
• Step 1: Go to this link: http://www.google.com/analytics/sign_up.html and sign up for google analytics.
• Step 2: Provide the website's URL when asked.
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• Step 3: Provide the Contact Information and Accept the User agreement.
• Step 4: Using a text editor (such as Notepad++), copy the tracking code that is generated into every webpage you want to track, immediately before the </body> tag (near the end).
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• Tips:
  • -In step 2, make sure that the URL does not take you to HTML. (e.g: http://faculty.unlv.edu/jensen/CEE_468/cee468spring09.html will not work use: http://faculty.unlv.edu/jensen/CEE_468/ instead)
  • -To view your tracking, visit www.google.com, sign in, click on "My account" in the upper right corner and then click on "Analytics" under "My Products".
  • -It may take more than 24 hours to start tracking and confirm that it is working. Be patient!
  • -Ultra Edit is easier and quicker to use (for step 4) for updating the HTML directly to the FTP server. Check the link below for more information.