Setting Up Google Analytics on Mambo
Get your Google Analytics Tracking Code
- Login and/or setup your Google Analytics account for your Mambo website.
- Obtain the tracking code snippet. Â Usually, this will be immediately presented during the creation of your account. Â However, if you need to find it later, you can go to the Account list, select your website, and click on the tab labeled TRACKING INFO. Â You will see the Code snippet towards the bottom of the screen. Â Leave this window open so that you can reference it when you are in your Mambo interface. Â Typically, the code is fairly short and should look something like this:<script type=”text/javascript”>
var _gaq = _gaq || [];
_gaq.push([‘_setAccount’, ‘UA-1234578-1’]);
_gaq.push([‘_trackPageview’]);(function() {
var ga = document.createElement(‘script’); ga.type = ‘text/javascript’; ga.async = true;
ga.src = (‘https:’ == document.location.protocol ? ‘https://ssl’ : ‘https://www’) + ‘.google-analytics.com/ga.js’;
var s = document.getElementsByTagName(‘script’)[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(ga, s);
})();</script>Â Â
Edit the Template Index file
- Login to the Mambo Administration back end.
- Hover over the SITE menu item, then click on TEMPLATE MANAGER>Site Templates when the drop-down menu appears. Â
Click on the radial button for the template that you are using in your Mambo front end, then click on EDIT HTML in the top right hand corner. Â You will be editing the INDEX.PHP file of the template. Â You can verify this by looking at the file name immediately above the code edit window.
Find the “</head>” tag within the code, click in the edit window so that your cursor is blinking in front of this tag, then click on your enter key a few times to add an empty space in the code. Â
Retrieve the Google Analytics code from the first part of this tutorial. Â And paste it into the space you created. Â The code should be pasted BEFORE the “</head>” tag.
- Click on SAVE in the top right hand corner.
