How to track your blog’s statistics with Google Analytics

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If you want to develop a successful blog, then you have to track your statistics. You have to know how many people are visiting your site daily and how many pages they are visiting. There are lots of visitor tracking widgets are out there in the internet and most of them are required to place them on your blog’s sidebar. This way you and all of the people can see a number of total visits. This is beginners stuff and this way you cannot see the actual status of your blog.

On the other hand if your new visitors see the low number in the visitor counter, he/ she will be demotivated and may not come back again.
Google Analytics is another free but professional service from Google which can help you track your blog’s statistics.

Go to google.com/analytics and sign in with your google account. Now on the main page you can see ‘Add Website Profile‘ and click to continue.
Choose ‘Add a profile for a new domain‘ Now add your blog’s address without the prefix, “http://“; select your timezone and click ‘finish.’
Now you can see a Java script code. This is a special code and when you will add it on your blog, google can then track your statistics.
You can add this code by editing your blog’s HTML but that may be some hard job for you. Just add this code at the way you add a new widget in your blog.

After adding the code into your blog, click ‘finish‘ and you will see the analytics home page again . Now you can see your blog/ website profile. Please remember that, it may take few days to start generating statistics of your blog. While it is still processing, you can do some other things for your blog.
Sign in to your google analytics account few days later and click on ‘view reports’ of your blog profile. This is your dashboard will look like. You can get lots of informations about your blog here.
On the top, you can see how many visitors have come to your site in the last 30 days. You can see see how many visitors have visited your site each day.

In this panel you can see,
Visits: How many visitors have come to your site in this season
Page views: How many pages have been viewed total
Pages/Visit: How many pages an average visitor have visited (More is better)
Bounce Rate: How many visitors went away from the first page (Less is better)
Avg. Time on Site: How long an average visitor stays on your site
%New Visits: How many % of your visitors visited your blog for the first time

You can see detailed info using different tables like this is the visitors table. You can see how many unique visitors coming to your site. Click on ‘View details’ to see people from different browsers, os’s, networks, how much they stay on your site and how long they are viewing your blog.

This is the traffic sources table. Here you can see from where your visitors are coming? From reference sites, search engines like google, yahoo or directly by typing your blog’s address. Click on ‘View details’ to see each statistics individually.
This is the map table and you can see how many people from which country visits your blog. Click on the ‘View details’ to see a big preview, you can view by country, region, continent or even by city.

This is the table for the top viewed pages from your blog. The top of them is your home page and you can click ‘View details’ to see how many time each of your blog’s page has been viewed.