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Lets begin by explaining what Google Analytics is and why you want it tracking your website visits etc.
Most importantly, Google Analytics helps you answer some important questions, such as:
- How many visitors stop by your website each hour, day, week, month, and year.
- Which page of your website they use to enter your website using (Landing Page)
- How they found your website, be it social media link or searching for a phrase on Google
- How long they stayed on your website
- How many pages of your website they visited
- What part of the world they came from.
This is all very useful information for getting the most from your website. Long gone are the days of throwing a static website up to, get your name out there and hoping folks find you and that some of them even need what you have to offer.
It’s Free, one of Google’s helpful tools to make the Internet more inviting to your small business or non-profit organization.
To Setup A Google Analytics Account
Sign up for a Free Account with Google Analytics here and follow the instructions. The domain you are creating the account for is the url you will be tracking. For instance, dynamiktheme.com, catalysttheme.com, and cobaltapps.com.
Once your account is active:
Click the Admin button on the right side of the orange bar
Now look in the middle column and find Tracking Code Tab, click that. 
Now, the tracking code tab offers two options, first, choose your situation, are you tracking a single domain?
Most will be tracking the one website, or if you have subdomains that you want to track along with your main domain, choose that option here.
Now you are ready to grab your tracking code and take it to your website.
Grab the complete snippet and head over to your website. Be sure to login to your WordPress backend, then look into the left hand column for the Genesis Options area and click on Theme Settings.
Scroll down to the bottom of that page and you will see the area for easily adding scripts etc to the Header and the Footer areas.
Paste your analytics code snippet in there and then click Save Settings.
Now, head back over to your Google Analytics account, the Tracking Code tab in order to verify your data is being received from your website.
Now you are ready for visitors and just as important is that you will be able to learn from your analytics data.
By Any Chance, do you have more topics like the following
one titled, Add Google Analytics To Your Website | Catalyst?
I really want to read through even alot more concerning it.
Thanks for your time.
I have Catalyst but I don’t see Genesis anywhere on it. Just Catalyst, & Dynamyk.
Catalyst is its own Theme Framework and includes its own version of the Dynamik Child Theme. Genesis is a completely different Theme Framework from a 3rd party. We do also have a version of Dynamik for Genesis found HERE, but that’s a completely different purchase.
Eric
Hi Eric,
I have a problem with my site http://carrefour-mariebo.com/
I can’t access the dashboard. When I try, this is the message I get :
Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at /home/content/02/9973202/html/wp-content/themes/catalyst/functions.php:1) in /home/content/02/9973202/html/wp-includes/pluggable.php on line 876
What can I do about it ?
Otherwise, I’m very happy with all my other Catalyst WordPress Sites, and I Wonder how something like this could happen.
I want just to let you know that I’m aware that my previous question has nothing to do with the subject, but I don’t know where to ask for help.
Thanks for helping me if you can or else, tell me where I should ask about this.
Well, nobody helped me, but I solved the problem by removing Catalyst and Dynamik completely, going through FTP.
It solved the problem.
I reinstalled it, and everything seems fine now.
Thanks for this Article, Google analytics is awsome.
Is there a point to purchase both Genesis + Dynamik as well as Catalyst/Dynamik? Or it would just be a redundant purchase?
Hey John,
It really all depends on the one making the purchase. For web designers who use several different Frameworks for their various clients this would not be a redundant purchase at all. But even for the non-developer it’s not so much about redundant as much as it is about finding the solution that best suits their needs.
We generally suggest that if someone already owns Genesis then they may find Dynamik for Genesis to be a good fit, but if they own neither Genesis or Catalyst then we suggest Catalyst/Dynamik. Note also that though these two versions of Dynamik are very similar they are two independent Child Themes. In other words it’s not like you could use one version for either Framework as each one was specifically developed for their respective Parent Theme Frameworks.
Also, you may find THIS PAGE to be of use in determining the answer to this question.
Eric
Wow nice article! Google analytics is great.