Thursday, February 21, 2008

Google Analytics - How?


(1) It's free.  Register yourself in http://www.google.com/analytics using your gmail account (or create a new one if you see needed).

(2) Just follow the steps.  e.g. you can add http://xxxxxxxx.blogspot.com to use analytics

(3) It will give you a script to be added to your web page.  e.g. <script>....

(4) Logon blogger.com and go to settings of your blog.  Add a page element of "script".  Leave the title empty and copy/paste the script above into it.  Save and it's done.

(5) Go back to analytics and do a testing to see if it works.

(6) You can leave analytics and let it run for a day or two and try to learn the patterns, if you want.

Remarks

- You can use it on any web page, not just blogger. 

- It won't track traffic it someone reads using RSS (like myself) as RSS reader doesn't execute the script.

- See their FAQ if you have more questions.

Disclaimer
I found the analytics cool to study web traffic.  It's not my intention to micro-monitor who's reading.  Of course, it seems that some readers come from their company network... :)

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