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Behrang Saeedzadeh
Behrang Saeedzadeh

Reputation: 47961

How to install and verify asynchronous Google Analytics tracking code?

In my property's Tracking Code section I see this message:

Status: Tracking Not Installed Last checked: Oct ...

The Google Analytics tracking code has not been detected on your website's home page. For Analytics to function, you or your web administrator must add the code to each page of your website.

The tracking code shown to be copy/pasted is this:

<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-XXXXXXx', 'example.com');
  ga('send', 'pageview');
</script>

There's a learn more button and when I click it it takes me to here which shows the asynchronous code, which is something like this:

<script type="text/javascript">

  var _gaq = _gaq || [];
  _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-XXXXX-Y']);
  _gaq.push(['_trackPageview']);

  (function() {
    var ga = document.createElement('script'); ga.type = 'text/javascript'; ga.async = true;
    ga.src = ('https:' == document.location.protocol ? 'https://ssl' : 'http://www') + '.google-analytics.com/ga.js';
    var s = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(ga, s);
  })();

</script>

Is this the current/latest version of the GA code? Why is the dashboard (i.e. the Tracking Code section) is not showing this by default? Is there a way to customize the Google Analytics to show this code in the Tracking Code section, prepared for my property (website)?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 4242

Answers (1)

tony m
tony m

Reputation: 4779

What you are seeing first is the latest version of Google Analytics known as Universal Analytics. As per Google recommendation , use that for all your new analytics properties. This is identified by the analytics.js library in the tracking code

The second one is an earlier version of Google Analytics based on ga.js library.

Use the first version of tracking code given by GA and follow this tutorial based on analytics.js to debug your code.

Upvotes: 3

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