How to Setup / Install Google Analytics on a WordPress Blog for First Time? Complete Tutorial • Crunchify

How to Setup / Install Google Analytics on a WordPress Blog for First …

An Introduction To Google Analytics For WordPress

Google Analysis is an essential part of my blogging career and success so far. There are number of different metrics you could check everyday.

Here are few of my favorite things which I check everyday:

• Number of users
• Page views
• Sessions
• Geo locations
• Browser
• Bounce rate
• Time Spent on Site
• Number of pages/user

Possibilities are endless. With over 16 millions visitors per month, even small change I do on Crunchify site creates big impact on users. Google Analytics is a key tool to measure site impact before and after my changes and I would recommend it to all bloggers out there.

In this tutorial, we will go over two things.

1. How to setup Google Analytics for 1st time
2. How to add Google Analytics code to your site to track all data

Let’s get started on How to Install Google Analytics on Your WordPress Site?

Point-1. Setup Google Analytics for 1st time

Step-1

• Visit URL https://google.com/analytics/
• Click on Sign-in button

Step-2

• Create new account
• Provide Account Name, Website Name and URL
• Click on get Tracking ID button

Step-3

• You will be redirected to Google Tracking code page

And that’s it. You need to put this code into your WordPress site.

Point-2 How to Google Analytics code to WordPress?

• Download All in One Webmaster free WordPress Plugin
• Just copy your tracking ID code
• Go to AIO Webmaster -> Analytics Options tab
• Put your tracking ID for Google Universal Analytics field
• Save settings

Plugin will do all the test and you will have your code inserted into your WordPress site at runtime.

How to verify Google Analytics code?

1. Visit your site URL
2. Right click on page
3. Click on Inspect if you are running Google Chrome browser
4. Look for analytics code as below image

That’s it. Now you should have all metrics tracked under Google Analytics for ever. Even if you change your theme, you don’t have to worry about updating Google Analytics code as it will be handled by All in One Webmaster plugin.

With above techniques you will have your dedicated WordPress Analytics Dashboard.

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