Analytics Basic Question

Where to put the code?

[farmboy]

Does the Analytics code need to be on top of a new page you're creating, on the bottom, does it matter?

I seem to recall it was "top", "bottom", or somewhere.


FarmBoy

[phranque]

when the apparent page rendering speed was an issue it was better to put it at the bottom. however there was a trade off as some visitors that bounced quickly wouldn't be counted. when asynchronous javascript is used the code is typically located at the top.

[farmboy]

when the apparent page rendering speed was an issue it was better to put it at the bottom. however there was a trade off as some visitors that bounced quickly wouldn't be counted. when asynchronous javascript is used the code is typically located at the top.

Thank you!


-FarmBoy

[lucy24]

there was a trade off as some visitors that bounced quickly wouldn't be counted

Heh. When I first installed piwik, the docs said somewhere that the code should go at page-bottom precisely because you only want to log people who stay longer than a millisecond.

[phranque]

you only want to log people who stay longer than a millisecond

that depends on whether measuring quick bounces is noise or useful information in your specific application.

[49 Webstreet]

the placement of google analytic codes matters.In my opinion the google analytic code always placed on the header section.

[edited by: mademetop at 6:34 am (utc) on Jan 8, 2015]

[RhinoFish]

The latest method, one we recommend, is to put the Google Tag Manager (GTM) container in the head, then use GTM to insert the asynch Analytics script (among other scripts).