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Where should Analytics code be placed?
As per Google Analytics’ instructions, your tracking code should always be placed just after the opening of the tag of the website.
What is the closing head tag?
They are: -> tells your web browser that a page with HTML is coming up. The opening tag is always placed at the beginning of your document, and the closing tag is placed at the very end. -> includes the title of your web page, any search terms, and other stuff we won’t get into here.
Does Google Analytics need to be in the head?
You can put it anywhere you want on page, and ll run anywhere on the page whether it’s in the head or the body. But according to Google support (Add the tracking code directly to your site) it is recommended to it in the head tag, paste it immediately before the closing tag.
When to put Google Analytics in the head?
In the head, just before the closing </ head> tag, then you won’t have any problems verifying your website in Webmaster Tools. Adding the following code (known as the “JavaScript tracking snippet”) to your site’s templates is the easiest way to get started using analytics.js.
When to put code snippets in Google Analytics?
I haven’t found technical justification for any of them directly from Google. For static sites the general help page tells us to place the code snippet “before the closing tag”. For dynamic sites (with documents generated by the server), the same site says to put it “immediately after the opening tag”.
Where to put tracking code in Google Analytics?
You can put it anywhere you want on page, and ll run anywhere on the page whether it’s in the head or the body. But according to Google support (Add the tracking code directly to your site) it is recommended to it in the head tag, paste it immediately before the closing tag.
What happens if you don’t start Google Analytics?
If your Google Code doesn’t start until the end of the page, it can get held up, just like the old non-asynchronous code used to hold up OTHER lines of code. Except now it’s holding up the tracking code. If a visitor to your site hits the page, and then leaves it before the tracking code fires the Pageview, then you lose that visitor.