Wordpress and Google Analytics?

Phaser · 27 Jul 2007 at 15:56

Has anyone got Google Analytics working with their install of Wordpress?

I'm running the latest version, installed the Google Analytics plugin from the Wordpress site, and setup my account with Google.

If I view the source code of the blog I can see the Analytics code fine, but Google is still saying it's not being tracked.

It might be worth noting I already have Google Analytics on www.domain.co.uk setup and working fine.

The new code is to track visits to the blog at www.domain.co.uk/HERE - I wouldn't have thought it'd be a problem?

Phaser · 29 Jul 2007 at 11:04

Weird, it's now working. On all my other sites it's been updated and working within mins. :confused:

Shoseki · 30 Jul 2007 at 16:18

What is the general opinion of Google analytics?

I was skeptical, but then Google can scan the websites I host, the info is nice to analyse, as oppose to server logs (even with open source projects like awstats)

~J~ · 31 Jul 2007 at 08:13

Shoseki said:
What is the general opinion of Google analytics?

I was skeptical, but then Google can scan the websites I host, the info is nice to analyse, as oppose to server logs (even with open source projects like awstats)

Looks lovely but the stats are WAY out.

We did use GA for a number of months until we wrote out own and GA was both slower at getting the results from their servers, results often out by 100's and generally not accurate at all.

Phaser · 31 Jul 2007 at 08:45

Really? Quite suprising.

JonB · 31 Jul 2007 at 09:32

Speaking of which, were having some major problems with Google Analytics. It's not tracking where people come from properlly! We're spending over £2k a month on adwords but everything registers as direct hits rather than coming through adwords.

Out of curiosity, is there anything out there which will parse IIS server logs? We're looking to try and implement a backup system.