What is Google Analytics and how to setup?

July 2, 2008 by: Ranjith

Google Analytics is a simple tool to analyze traffic on your website. This tool is very easy to setup and it will provide you information about who is coming to your site, from which IP, what they are looking for, how they come, from which country and lot more...
What information you want more than this?

Follow the simple steps to create Google Analytics for your website.

Step 1. Create a Google account
First you should have a Google account to start. If you don't have one yet create with the link https://www.google.com/accounts/NewAccount

Step 2.Create a Google Analytics account
Next open Google Analytics and set up an account. Go to www.google.com/analytics/ and click "Sign Up Now". Also provide your Google account and website information.

Step 3. Add code to your web pages
Copy and Paste a snippet of text provided in Google Analytics to every web page within your website. If you are using any template or footer file for your website, paste these code just before the </body> tag. Upload all the website files to server.

Step 4. View your web statistics
Google Analytics will take at least a day to show your web statistics. Login to Google Analytics and click report.

Step 5. Done!

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