If you want to track the performance of your blog e.g. where your visitors are coming from or which part of your blog are doing well etc, you may want to consider using Google Analytics.

Google Analytics is a free service provided by Google which allow website or blog owners to track their site’s visitors (including search engines) through detailed generated statistics.

Below are the steps to set up your Google Analytics tracking:

Step 1: Go here to sign up for the Google Analytics service (you would need to have a Google Account (email account)).

Step 2: Once you have opened a Google Analytics Account for your domain, you will be provided with an Analytics Account ID. See example: ” http://yourdomain.com UA-xxxxxxxx-x“. Copy the Analytics Account ID into your Clipboard. Note: You can ignore the tracking code (ga.js) given to you which is supposed to be copied into the individual posts or pages for tracking purposes as you will be using a plugin instead (see below).

Step 3: Download the Google Analytics for WordPress plugin here.

Step 4: Unzip the plugin. FTP the unzipped plugin to your WordPress plugin folder and  activate the plugin.

Step 5: In your WordPress Dashboard, click “Settings” / “Google Analytics”. Paste your Analytics Account ID from your Clipboard to the Google Analytics Settings page. Indicate your setting preference and click  the “Update Google Analytics Settings” button.

Step 6: Go to the Google’s Google Analytics (step 2) screen and view the status of your domain.

You should be able to view the analytics report of your domain once Google Analytics has completed its update.

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