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I recently, and when I say recently I mean a month or two back decided I’d try out Google’s Analytics. However after over a month I never saw any results. Since it wasn’t a priority issue, I neglected it until now. After searching the help docs, videos and forums I found that I wasn’t the only one with this issue. And it wasn’t entirely due to my incompetence. On the instruction page where it tells you where to put the script on the pages you want to track they tell you to place the code directly above the </body> tag.

You are instructed to place the code above the </body> tag.

I thought this was an odd practice but I figured Google knew what they were doing, so I did as instructed. However after watching, and re-watching very closely their here, that it is in fact supposed to be placed directly above the tag.



I change this today and notified them on the forums because it was a complete and utter farce to try and send them and email directly about the issue. So hopefully this will reduce the amount of questions they have on this issue, and in 24hs I might actually be able to see may first report after a little over a month of waiting.

UPDATE: Apparently Google’s implementation of the script on to the page should work. They do it to prevent page lag, due to the script contacting Google’s servers. Allowing the page to load, and if there are any errors it doesn’t disrupt and can die in the background.