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**sudhakararaog** · 12-23-2009, 05:47 PM

is it a good idea to place the google analytics javascript code at the very bottom of the page just before

</body>

or should it be within the <head> and </head>

**chrishirst** · 12-23-2009, 06:06 PM

Yes it is.

Ideally it needs to be the LAST thing to load. That way the page is fully loaded before the view count is registered, and should the connection to Google be slow for any reason it does NOT impact on the visitors "experience" by causing the page NOT to load.

**sudhakararaog** · 12-23-2009, 07:08 PM

thanks for letting me know

**sudhakararaog** · 12-24-2009, 12:08 AM

i am working on a static website which is hosted on linux and php and mysql. i am creating the html and css part of the website

all the pages in the website have a common section for example top portion has header links and bottom has footer links

so i thought it would be a good idea to have header.php and header.php that way any change that needs to be done can be done to these 2 files instead of changing all the files in the website

about the google analytics code after getting your response i want to add this google analytics code at the bottom of every page just before </body> tag this way each page's statistic details can be viewed by logging into google account

however since i want to have footer.php i want to include the footer links and then the google analytics code followed by </body></html> in footer.php

my question is if i were to do it this way, when google analytics javascript code which is only in 1 file footer.php though this file will be called in all other pages(about.php, services.php...) of the website as
include("footer.php");

will the analytics code still analyse traffic information for each and every page of the website(index.php, about.php, services.php ...)

please advice

thanks

**The Leader** · 12-24-2009, 01:31 AM

Just follow googles instructions and it will work!

**weker** · 12-24-2009, 01:31 AM

just don't put the code in <head></head> because I remember once google analytics servers went down and all sites that had the code in head could not load.

**sudhakararaog** · 12-24-2009, 01:47 AM

thanks for replying

i will use the analytics code only before </body> tag and not between
<head></head>

about the question i asked about placing the analytics code in footer.php and all the files in the website would call this file as
include("footer.php");

by doing this will each page of the website be analysed indivdually

**mma** · 12-24-2009, 04:05 AM

Sometimes I put my google analytics code at the footer.

**Carminator** · 12-28-2009, 12:48 PM

This is interesting- I usually put it before </body> tag too. Sounds like there are other options out there. Gonna try putting it at the footer as well.

**ContentSpooling** · 12-28-2009, 09:18 PM

It doesn't matter if you out the code on the lower part. The important is it will function well and track your daily site transaction.