Google have just released an asynchronous version of their Google Analytics site tracking code. The main advantage of this is that you can have the code start executing and collecting stats as soon as the page has started loading (because you can put it higher up in the HTML) and it won't interfere with your load times because it's asynchronous.
This blog is running on Graffiti CMS and I was pleasantly surprised at how easy it was to change to the asynchronous version of analytics.
When logged in to your Graffiti CMS site as an admin click on the Control Panel link and then on Site Options. From Site Options click on the Settings box.
At the bottom of the "Your Site Options" page you will see two text areas. If you are already using Google Analytics then you will probably have your code in the first box labeled Web Statistics. Putting your original analytics code in this box is good because this puts the analytics code at the bottom of your page just before the </body> tag.
However, now that we have an asynchronous version of analytics we should put the new code in the second box, the Header box, because this will put the analytics JavaScript in the <head> tag and it will load earlier and also ensure that your page loads faster. (Positioning it in the header won't make your page load faster but the fact that it's asynchronous will.) This is what these two boxes will look like when you've finished editing.
Before you delete your old analytics code from the Web Statistics text area you need to save your site's UA code. This is the only part of your old code that you'll need.
Then you will want to paste the following into the Header part of this page:
It really is as easy as that. I suddenly have new found respect for Graffiti CMS.
This blog is running on Graffiti CMS and I was pleasantly surprised at how easy it was to change to the asynchronous version of analytics.
When logged in to your Graffiti CMS site as an admin click on the Control Panel link and then on Site Options. From Site Options click on the Settings box.
At the bottom of the "Your Site Options" page you will see two text areas. If you are already using Google Analytics then you will probably have your code in the first box labeled Web Statistics. Putting your original analytics code in this box is good because this puts the analytics code at the bottom of your page just before the </body> tag.
However, now that we have an asynchronous version of analytics we should put the new code in the second box, the Header box, because this will put the analytics JavaScript in the <head> tag and it will load earlier and also ensure that your page loads faster. (Positioning it in the header won't make your page load faster but the fact that it's asynchronous will.) This is what these two boxes will look like when you've finished editing.
Before you delete your old analytics code from the Web Statistics text area you need to save your site's UA code. This is the only part of your old code that you'll need.
Then you will want to paste the following into the Header part of this page:
<script type="text/javascript">
var _gaq = _gaq || [];
_gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-XXXXX-X']);
_gaq.push(['_trackPageview']);
(function() {
var ga = document.createElement('script');
ga.src = ('https:' == document.location.protocol ? 'https://ssl' : 'http://www') + '.google-analytics.com/ga.js';
ga.setAttribute('async', 'true');
document.documentElement.firstChild.appendChild(ga);
})();
</script>
and replace the UA-XXXXX-X part with your value.var _gaq = _gaq || [];
_gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-XXXXX-X']);
_gaq.push(['_trackPageview']);
(function() {
var ga = document.createElement('script');
ga.src = ('https:' == document.location.protocol ? 'https://ssl' : 'http://www') + '.google-analytics.com/ga.js';
ga.setAttribute('async', 'true');
document.documentElement.firstChild.appendChild(ga);
})();
</script>
It really is as easy as that. I suddenly have new found respect for Graffiti CMS.
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