Google analytics

A while back I wrote about a new tool from Google which offered to keep track of the traffic to your site. The problem was that they had an overwhelming number of people trying to sign up, and as such they close registration and later it became available by invitation only.

Today I finally received my invitation, only three months later. I guess better late than never. It seems to be a simple process of adding a little JavaScript to all pages on your site. Until you realize that I have a lot of pages to include this code into.

The bottom line is that with all the power that google has, you would think that they can simply use the google ads that are already on every one of the pages I want track to provide the analytics. It is a good thing that I have an include file that lives in every page and I can simply add this code to that include. For those of you not familiar with includes, these are files that get call by your pages and if you update the single page, the change expands to all files using this include. A very helpful way to do something if your pages use the same code in a multitude of pages. Typically includes are used for navigation bars and footers across a Web site.