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How to add Google Analytics to Joomla

Submitted by selva on Saturday, 12 December 2009No Comment

Joomla is a content management system (CMS), which facilitates you to build Web sites and powerful online applications. Joomla’s ease-of-use and extensibility have made it the most popular Web site software available. Joomla is an open source solution that is freely available to everyone. This makes it one of the most used content management system.

Google Analytics is a free service offered by Google that gives detailed statistics bout the visitors to a website.

Google Analytics Tracking Module is a simple module for Joomla! 1.0.x. and Joomla! 1.5. These Joomla templates are used in Google Analytics for tracking the code to the Joomla site as a module. This module makes it possible to add the tracking code before the closing body tag in template.

The most standard website statistics are done through Google analytics. They provide data in a very one-dimensional format. This increases the website traffic. Any Online Marketing Service companies rely on Google analytics. Joomla is also most preferred because of the simple fact that it is easy to use

Below are the steps that one needs to follow if they want to add Google analytics to Joomla

  • First, what you need to do is go to the Google Analytics website and sign up for account.
  • After the registration process is followed you will be shown a page where you are given a tracking code to add to each page of your website. It is always better to chose new tracking code when compared to old tracking
  • You can keep this webpage open with the tracking code for sometime
  • The next step is to add the Analytics tracking code to your Joomla template

Adding the analytics tracking code to your Joomla website is a very easy process. You will have to do this through logging in to the administrator backend and editing your template’s HTML.

If you are using the following Joomla, which is 1.0.10, 1.0.11, 1.0.12, 1.0.13, 1.0.14 or 1.0.15 do the following:

•           Log on to: www.yourparticularsite.com/administrator/

•           In the menu select: “yourparticularsite ” – “Template Manager” – “Site Templates”

•           Then what you need to do is, select the template which is marked as default and then click  on “Edit HTML”

In Joomla 1.5

If you are using Joomla 1.5, 1.51 does follow this process.

•           Log on to: www.yourparticularsite.com/administrator/

•           In the menu select: “Extensions” – “Template Manager”

•           Now, you will have to select the template which is marked as default and click “Edit”

•           In the template edit page, you can click “Edit HTML”

Adding the code within the template

After following the above steps, you should now be looking at your template’s HTML.

•           What you need to do is, Scroll right down to the bottom of all this code

•           On the second to bottom line you will see the following tag </body>

•           Now, paste your Google Analytics tracking code just before this tag

•           Now, the next step would be, press “save” and Google Analytics is installed on your website!

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