How to add google analytics to wordpress

Do you want to add Google Analytics to WordPress? Google Analytics is a great way to monitor in-depth site metrics. You can monitor site traffic, bounce rates, traffic by geography, source, monitor search queries, etc.

Add google analytics to wordpress

Method 1: Using Insert headers and footers plugin.

Here are steps to add google analytics to your wordpress site-

1. Create a google analytics account-https://www.google.com/analytics
   1. Sign up with your Gmail account.
   2. You will be prompted to this page.
   3. Choose “website” and enter your website URL details
   4. Get Google analytics tracking code. Copy this.
2. Add Google Analytics to WordPress–
   1. Add the plugin Insert headers and footers
   2. Go to your WordPress dashboard-> Settings-> Insert headers an footers-> add the copied code-> press save.

That’s it Google analytics has been added to your WordPress site.

Method 2- Using the google tag manager plugin.

1. Create a Google Analytics account using the steps mentioned above.
2. Create a google tag manager account. Check my article on how to add Google tag manager to WordPress.
3. Install Google tag manager for WordPress plugin. https://wordpress.org/plugins/duracelltomi-google-tag-manager/
4. Get your Google tag manager ID
5. Enter your Google tag Manager ID in your WordPress dashboard. (You can access this by going to Settings-> Google tag manager). Press save.
6. Get your Google Analytics ID from https://analytics.google.com->Admin->Tracking Info-> Tracking code-> copy your tracking code.
7. Go to your Google tag manager account. https://tagmanager.google.com
8. Click on new tag
9. Click on universal analytics
10. Enter your tracking ID you copied from google analytics.
11. Click fire on all pages.

That’s it. Now you have added Google Analytics to your WordPress site.

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