Google Analytics and Blogger

You can run Google Analytics on a web page through Blogger but you have to set it up exactly right.

Go to www.google.com/analytics and sign up for an account. During that process you will be given a bit of code to add to your site. You add this code to your template but you have to place it right before the </body> near the bottom or it won't work. It will just endlessly show as "tracking unknown" on the Google Analytics website if the code is placed anywhere else. See code sample below:



This is a feature I think would be nice if it was integrated into Blogger itself.

For those that don't know what Google Analytics is; it's a site tracker from Google. It was originally designed around their AdSense but you can use it without running AdSense on your site. It gives you information about number of visitors and such.