What is google analytics?

What is Google Analytics?

Google Analytics is a web analytics that tracks your website's traffic.

If you have a Google account, then you can use it,

Firstly, you'll need to visit this web page => http://www.google.com/analytics/

Use your Google account and sign up. Once you've signed up, you'll have to enter a website and you will get a tracking code.

( Note : You can use one Google account to track multiple websites for website traffic statistics )

The tracking code will look something like this : UA-12345678-9 .

And it looks something like this on your web page :

Code:

<script type="text/javascript">
var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www.");
document.write(unescape("%3Cscript src='" + gaJsHost + "google-analytics.com/ga.js' type='text/javascript'%3E%3C/script%3E"));
</script>
<script type="text/javascript">
try {
var pageTracker = _gat._getTracker("UA-12345678-9");
pageTracker._trackPageview();
} catch(err) {}</script>


If you look at the code above, you'll notice that I've included UA-12345678-9 in the above code. Once you got your tracking code, replace the current one with your new one so that it can work successfully on your website.

Once you have the tracking code for the respectful website that you entered, you will need to add it to every web page on your website. This will allow Google to track and give you statistics for your website. If you don't have the tracking code installed on every web page, then when you check your Google Analytics account, there will be a yellow sign image.

If you've installed it on every web page of your website, then you'll see an image like this :

If you see a clock, then Google is still searching your website to make sure that every web page on your site has the code installed. ( 24-48 minutes )

So basically, with Google Analytics, you can track where your website traffic is coming from, and see what people are viewing.