{"id":4128,"date":"2020-05-13T15:06:24","date_gmt":"2020-05-13T15:06:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/trackingchef.com\/?p=4128"},"modified":"2020-12-14T15:09:32","modified_gmt":"2020-12-14T12:09:32","slug":"adding-google-analytics-to-your-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trackingchef.com\/google-analytics\/adding-google-analytics-to-your-site\/","title":{"rendered":"Adding Google Analytics to your site"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
There are multiple ways in which you can add the Google Analytics (GA) tracking code to your site.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
About half of the Top 1M websites use a CMS (Content Management System) of some sort (BuiltWith<\/a>), such as WordPress, Wix, Shopify etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Since Google Analytics is the most widely adopted web analytics tool (67% of Top 1M<\/a>), almost every modern CMS has either a built in feature for GA or multiple plugins to support the standard GA implementation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n If you have a standard implementation (i.e. no custom events or dimensions), you should probably stick to this solution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I’ve added a quick walkthrough of the most popular platforms: WordPress, Wix & Shopify.<\/p>\n\n\n\n If you’re using WordPress, the world’s most popular CMS, you have several available plugins for adding GA to your site.<\/p>\n\n\n\nWordPress<\/h3>\n\n\n\n