Enabling Google Analytics support

Overview

Google Analytics is a free web analytics application provided by Google, including SEO recommendations and live site traffic.

Sample Google Analytics dashboard

Setting up GA

Google Analytics can be enabled on newer, v5+ platforms using two lines in a .htaccess file.

1. Visit Google Analytics to create a profile for the domain
   • Once the profile is created, you will see sample code to insert:

     <script>
      (function(i,s,o,g,r,a,m){i['GoogleAnalyticsObject']=r;i[r]=i[r]||function(){
      (i[r].q=i[r].q||[]).push(arguments)},i[r].l=1*new Date();a=s.createElement(o),
      m=s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0];a.async=1;a.src=g;m.parentNode.insertBefore(a,m)
      })(window,document,'script','//www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js','ga');
     ga('create', 'UA-99999000-1', 'auto');
      ga('send', 'pageview');
     </script>

   • Write down your account number, bolded above, which follows the form UA-XXXXXXXX-X
   • It is unnecessary to add the sample code above. This will be added automatically via mod_pagespeed in the following step
2. Create a file, if it does not exist, named .htaccess in the document root for the domain to enable statistics reporting
3. Add the following lines:
   ModPagespeedEnableFilters insert_ga
ModPagespeedAnalyticsID UA-XXXXXXXX-X
   • Where UA-XXXXXXX-X is the account number previously generated by Google
4. Voila! Wait 24 hours for statistics to generate within Google Analytics’ dashboard