Hi Nice article.

Thanks Rajesh!

Very simple and effective content about joomla. Will be very useful for budding web masters. Thanks

Thanks for your help. I appreciate it very much

Thank you very much! I originally downloaded a module that supposedly made this process easy. It didn't make it easy, because there was a lack of documentation, and it only supported the legacy mode of Google Analytics.

In contrast, your post was a simple solution. Thanks again!

i added the code exactly as you said, but it still didnt work.
GA doesnt recognize that the code has been added.
Please advice me what to do.

Thanks!

Hi, It takes a day for GA to track info. Try checking tomorrow for your stats

The next problem, once Analytics was collecting data, was that all of the page names show up in the reports as:
"index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=126&Itemid=87..."

Hovering over the names in the reports will add the article ID but good luck working out which page that is off the top of your head!

Is there a way to make Joomla or Google use the Article name or something more friendly in the report?

Thanks for posting Raman, Prinson Greg, Javier, Tamara and Rob!

Javier have your stats appeared yet? Tamara's right, there is usually a lag of about a day.

Rob if you use sh404sef to make your URLs search engine friendly, you won't have this problems anymore. Why not try installing the sh404sef extension on your website?

thanks the article rocks

Thanks David T,

For Starting such a nice post on Google Analytics, I also installed GA and waiting for a day as said visitors above to detect code by GA.

thank you, great article, very helpfull

Ovo ti je dobar članak lafe. Hvala.
This is good article pal.
Das ist sehr gut Information Kamarad.

Thanks.
Its worked perfect on my site.

http://gsmunlock.in

Thank you. This is a great article. It helps to all who is new in joomla.

Thanks. However, the index.php file I have does not have a tag. Not sure where should I insert the GA code if there's no tag.

I meant to write "/body" tag.

I would say it is better to add the GA code directly after the opening body tag, rather than directly before the closing body tag. I know Google say to place the code before the closing body tag, but they don't mean directly before.

The Google help article on tracking links to external sites states that you need to place a call to GA in the onclick attribute. In order for this to work, they say that you must place the GA code before the relevant link - infact they go so far as to say you should put the code between the opening body tag and the a tag which you want to track manually.

I tried to edit the html file but it was empty. However, I have also index.php file which might cause this. Do you know why I cannot the main index files as you advised?

A good and simple article

Very Thank

Hi Guys, nice and simple article.

Since Google Analytics requires the code to be placed on all the website pages. Is it enough to just put the code on the template?
Is there a solution like a plugin that transfers the code in case I change the template?

@Al: No, you would need to add it to any template you use. The good thing is that it's only needed in the template, and not EVERY page.

Is it that easy? Thanks!

Thanks,saved me from having to download a module/plugin for my website.

Thanks, So much it worked perfectly, google is already tracking and it took about on minute, an I'm a new joomla user

Cheers,
Jim Novak

thanks a lot!!
simple but perfect!!

Glad you guys have found it useful!

Very helpful. Nice.

Tnx a lot!

Hi, I did add the code, what I want know is to DISPLAY some of the statistics in the frontpage of my joomla site, also I would like to include a LINK to the complete statistics page.

thanks!

Muito grato pela dica, vou adicionar ao meu site

thanks

Very simple and effective.

Exactly what i needed. Thanks a lot.

Thank you a lot.
It seems nice.

christak

Thanks a lot for the tutorial it was very helpful.....

I have only very recently started to work with Joomla and have found it very confusing. I am slowly suppose to take over a site someone design with Joomla. I am trying to add the analytic codes but your instructions do not match what my menu has. I checked and I am using Joomla Version 1.5.7 Production/stable [Wovusani]. Can you give me any assistance with putting these codes on my site?
Thank you in advance for any and all help.

Great article! Very simple to follow!

Nice artlice, Thanks

Excellent! Thank you. Took me < 5 minutes.

Thanks for the article. I was going to do just this, but I wanted some confirmation that I had the right idea before possibly crashing my site. Thanks for that confirmation.

Thanks for the help

Thanks a lot for your help. Just took me less than 5 mins to do a this ....
My client is now very satisfied

Simple the best! Thanks

Great article help me out loads thanks

Excellent article. I've been getting advice on how to add Analytics to Joomla and it hasn't worked, until now. Other persons I've talked with stated I should install a new module and then input the necessary data, which doesn't work. I wasted many hours trying to do it the other way and less than 5 minutes your way.

Thanks,
Joe

Thanks! That's really clear and helpful.

thanks! once I read this I was like; duh! I should've known that.

Better than using a module for this. Like the above poster said, "duh! I should've known that". :-)

Thanks

thx, worked well for me! greetings, der dave

coo As Easy as posibel

Thanks for the article.

I will test it out and hopefully it works.

Champion effort Sir.

Thank you.

Thanks Man For this wonderful Article Its working Great....
God Bless you

Thank you!

Sometime its great to go in the old fashioned way under the hood without a plugin and mae things happen.

Today, thanks to you, it was the easiest task of my day.

Thanks muchly.

Excellent thankyou so much --- this is what is good about the net

Ditto!
Previously I tried using a module, but why bother? This is so easy.

Perfect!

wonderful/clear instructions!

Thanks so much!

Nice and clear. Great article!!!
Thanks

hi, i just don't understand s/thing. the google tutorial says that i should see the tracking code in a web browser (developer -> html code). i've inserted the code in the template in the way described above but i don't see it there. so i'll wait till the next morning and see if it works.

in other hand the article is written very clearly so even a beginner can follow. thank you.

thank you so much

For some reason "Template Manager" does not show up under my Extensions menu. I only have "Install/Uninstall", "Module Manager", and "Plugin Manager". Do you know why this isn't showing up or how I can get around it to ad Google Analytics. I'm using version 1.5.3 of Joomla.

thanks for a clear article

I figured out why my "Template Manager" was not showing up. I was not logged in as a Super Administrator, only as an Administrator. I had someone else create the site originally and he did not convey the Super Admin login info to me.

It worked with me. I used to add the Analytics script to the index.php when using Joomla 1.x. For some reason, it didn´t work this way in Joomla 1.5 so I went for your solution.
Tx.

Excellent article which made adding Google Analytics dead simple, there should be a link to this from Google Analytics.
Very much appreciated.

Any updates or advice on conversion tracking for an e-commerce store using VirtueMart/Joomla? Is there a way to have a 'thank you' page generate after each sales process is confirmed? Trying to figure out how to determine what URL to use to monitors goals.

Thanks.

thank you very much

Awesome writeup - had the Google Analyitics code on my site in just a couple of minutes. Like others, I was just about to download a plugin, this is WAY easier.

Now to wait for the stats to be 'posted' on Google. ;-)

Thanks again!

Jeff

I thought that you are going to mention a plugin to do the work for us, but this is even better! Thanks!

Awesome. Just what I needed.

Thanks

Will adding my GA code to the template be enough for tracking virtuemart (which is installed) information also? Or do I need to ad the code to the Virtuemart component also?

I think I must be missing something. I followed the steps and everything seems to work. However, the content tracking in Google Analytics shows the visited content in the following format.

/public/index.php?option=com_content&view=section&layout=blog&id=1&Itemid=3

Being new to Joomla, I am not sure how to map this to my website. I assume the "id" is the id of the section. Is the "Itemid' the id of the article?

It would be great if there was a way to have the content via the section or category alias rather than the id.

Thanks

Thanks for the tutorial.

I couldn't add the code through the template manager... kept saying that the php file couldn't be opened for editing.

Instead, I accessed the php file through ftp and edited it in wordpad...

Thank you for this article - you saved my site! Placing this script before the body, is fatal. Your tip works A1.

It is extremely easy, I was planning to incorporate an extension, but it can be done without it. And You showed it how.

Hi...

Simply excellent. Superb...

Any way I need to repost Dennis van Leeuwen Question:

Will adding my GA code to the template be enough for tracking virtuemart (which is installed) information also? Or do I need to ad the code to the Virtuemart component also?

Lots of Thanks David Towers

Great article...

I have added the code as described and have an icon on the GA panel indicating that the web site is not being tracked. Does this mean that the process has not worked or does this mean that the process worked and GA has not yet updated? I have tried to save and refresh but it makes no difference.

Grateful of any advice

Hey, thanks for the help!! I just added analytics to my joomla template.

Same doubt as someone else above,is it enough to just paste the tracking code by edit the template page?as GA requires the codes on every page.

Nice tutoril, appreciate it. But would like to know how to track information in VirtueMart. Any input would be appreciated.

Fantastic, couldn't have is explained it more clearly, great job

Good job - short, sweet and accurate. Thanks for posting.

Thank you!
I searched about Google Analistic+Joomla 1.0 - and your topic answer, how i can do this!

Hi, is it possible to have GA only at one main site and meassure accesses from another subdomains? Or is it necessary to have unique GA on each subdomain?

Hi all,

I have joomla 1.5.15. When I go to edit HTML, the file is "empty". I read somebody used other technic to edit the index.php file. Can somebody tell me how to do it? Thanks in advance,

MP

is not working in my site.

what am i missing ?

Same here my file is empty....any suggestions?

Thanks - great article.

Not working with my site either (1.5.15). When I add the code, the pages of my site don't want to display. All i get are empty white pages.

using Joomla 1.5.15 and Rhu-Milkyway template..I added the analytics code immediately before the /body tag, and it shows up on every page if you viewsource. No problems with page loading. I will wait a day and look for data, but this isn't my first time using analytics so I am sure it will work.

As an update to the above...in Google Analytics, sometimes it takes a while for the little yellow yield triangle status symbol to go away. You can manually force google to look for the code by clicking on "edit" at the end of the row. Then on the new page, at the upper right hand corner of the table is a small link that says "check status". Click "check status" and the new page should tell you immediately if the code is installed correctly.

Great info. Just what I need to convert my static site to Joomla and keep my tracking stats.

amazing, your article is very helpful. Thanks.

Awesome! Thank you!

Beautiful, thanks for the help! Really appreciate it. Those were very clear and relevant instructions.