Add GA Javascript for tracking traffic

codeforamerica / cfawp2012

Wordpress template for CfA site redesign

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Closed migurski closed 9 years ago

kressaty commented 9 years ago

Suggestion - do this with a plugin. Yoast's Google Analytics for WordPress is our favorite.

migurski commented 9 years ago

This one? What's the difference compared to pasting JS in the template?

kressaty commented 9 years ago

Yep that's the one. Quick thoughts -

If you paste it in, and have any sort of local or staging environment, it's going to be firing pageviews that shouldn't count towards the main profile
The plugin allows you to do further advanced tracking without putting in additional code
Updates to core, other changes to template, etc. pose less risk of breaking tracking
Easier for other contributors to see what's running on the site

migurski commented 9 years ago

Thank you Jonathan. I'm going to do this the dumb way for now, and revisit with Yoast’s plugin at another time.