Google Analytics Setup in Magento eCommerce

Installing Google Analytics is quite simple in Magento e-Commerce. Copy your Web Property ID from Google Analytics Settings > Tracking code. It looks like UA-852764-24

Now goto:

System > Configuration > Google API > Google Analytics.

Enable the google analytics and insert the google web property id on Account Number which is like UA-xxxxxx-xx as mentioned previously.

NOTE: The Google Analytics implementation is broken in Magento 1.4.0.0 and 1.4.0.1 versions.

So, to fix this, copy:

app/code/core/Mage/GoogleAnalytics/Block/Ga.php

to local at:

app/code/local/Mage/GoogleAnalytics/Block/Ga.php

Then at line 179 add below code:

var _gaq = _gaq || [];

That's just before this line:

_gaq.push(["_setAccount", "' . $this->getAccount() . '"]);

Now, Everything seems fine as I wanted except it's appearing on the footer rather than on head. So, now time to move it to head.

On your design > layout copy googleanalytics.xml file and replace:

	<reference name="after_body_start">
//to
	<reference name="head">

Now clear your cache. I like to cleanup from command line as:

~/public_html/var/cache]# rm -rf mage--*

That will clean every single trace of previous cache.

Yohooo! It's now appearing on head with corrected code. Did you enjoy the POST?

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