Overview
What Google Analytics does
- Google Analytics collects statistics about website visits.
- It can show website visitors and the pages they visit for analysis related to marketing and website improvements.
Google Analytics in the website package
- The website package includes installation of a Google Analytics 4 tracking script.
Google Analytics settings
- The account-number and HTML-code fields belong to the Google Analytics menu and are separate from the website’s main SEO settings.
How to
Accessing Google Analytics
- Search Google for “Google Analytics” to access the service.
- Log in using the email address used when the account was registered.
Troubleshooting
Checking whether Google Analytics is configured
- Use the website backend’s Google Service section to check whether Google Analytics has been configured.
Leaving Google Analytics fields empty
- Leaving the Google Analytics account-number and HTML-code fields empty does not affect the website’s SEO.
Policies and rules
Setting up a Google Analytics account
- Setting up Google Analytics requires an email address.
- Customers register for and log in to Google Analytics using their own email address.
- Readyplanet does not register Google Analytics accounts on behalf of customers and does not have their Google Analytics account or registration information.
Relationship between Google Analytics and website services
- Readyplanet recommends that website customers set up Google Analytics to collect website visit statistics.
- Google Analytics is a separate system from Readyplanet's systems.
Limits and quotas
Distinguishing visitors by device type
- Google Analytics normally tracks the number of website visitors but does not necessarily distinguish whether visits came from computers or mobile devices.
Compiled from 15 facts observed across 5 customer calls.