Thanks for opening an individual support regarding Analytics @devin104, much appreciated. It’s easier to handle specific queries from individual support topics.
Regarding adding Google Analytics to your site, based on your previous support topic I gather you’re looking to place the code manually, as opposed to using Site Kit? Just to be sure, I’ll provide details on how to do both:
Using Site Kit to place Google Analytics code on your site: You’ll find the steps to do this here, over on the Site Kit plugin website.
Placing Google Analytics code on your manually: While we’re limited to Site Kit support here in the forums, see the steps below, with links to further explanations where possible:
- Capture the code snippet to place on your site.
- Place the code snippet on your site (in the same place where you placed your AdSense snippet, typically the header.php file of your theme).
- Check that Analytics is reporting with your manually placed code snippet, using the Google Analytics real time reporting tool or Google Tag Assistant.
One thing to note, is that if you’re adding code snippets to the header.php file of your theme, it’s better to use a child theme, so that your additions don’t get overwritten each time there is a theme update. We can’t assist with this, given we provide support for Site Kit only.
If you need any assistance adding the Google Analytics code snippet to your site manually, the product experts over at the Analytics Help Center should be able to assist more than we can here in plugin support. Thank you!
