Blogger analytics

So apparently Blogger doesn't give you page view counts or other statistics. However, I would really like to know when I make my first steps out of anonymity. In comes Google analytics. Of course, I tried to figure it out all by myself, creating an account, adding the JavaScript snippet to the HTML and waiting for a day to see if Google Analytics kicked in.

It didn't... So now what? Trying something else and waiting again for 24 hours? No thanks. So I reverted to Firebug's http (net) sniffer: no request to the analytics site was made at all! After some debugging, I discovered my mistakes:

I tried to put the JavaScript in de <HEAD> tag of the blog's template HTML. Instead, it had to go just before the </BODY> tag.
Waiting for 24 hours to test is not necessary. In the edit section of your website profile, there's a 'check status' link in the upper right.
Maybe I should have just spent 2 minutes on finding a good tutorial, because they are out there.

Finally, all was working. I added IP-addresses of computers I use often as an exclude-filter so I'm not counting my own (endless amounts of) visits :-D

And now we wait...

Unreasonably Unreadable

Blogger analytics

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