Help with tagging a page for use with Google Analytics
Development and Programming
Hello, EE Support,
I’m sure you’re familiar with my sitution - new to EE, used 3rd party developer who won’t return calls so now I’m stuck trying to figure this out with limited knowledge.
I need to put GA tags on our site and need help. Is there a section in the User Guide that would help? I skimmed through it but didn’t find anything.
Can I just go to one of the templates or pages we’ve created and insert there? Thank you in advance.
vcom
You’ll need to insert the code somewhere in the templates. Hopefully the developer has some form of “included” (embeded) template that can make this process simple. If not, you may be stuck editing multiple templates to get this done.
I hope this helps.
Erik
Thanks, Erik. If we want to track specific pages then we’d have to insert it in each page?
Potentially. It depends on how your templates and channels are setup and what your goals with GA are.
Had a chat w/my internal customer. Basically, she wants every page tracked for visitors. There is a site template. If I add every GA generated code to that template, would that suffice?
Yes, a single GA tracking code for the site profile embedded in the template(s) would suffice. Drilling down to specific pages would be easily done from within the Google Analytics panel.
I just need ONE code and the tracking of all other pages is achieved via GA - did I understand that correctly?
I’ve been reading the install guide on the GA site and all I need to do is add this snippet before the /body tag, correct? (I would replace the xxxxxx with the actual code).
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var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www.");
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try{
var pageTracker = _gat._getTracker("UA-xxxxxx-x");
pageTracker._trackPageview();
} catch(err) {}
[removed]Yes, that is correct.