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Google Analytics: Why Add it to Your Ministry Website?

Track your website traffic with detailed reports from Google Analytics.

Google Analytics (GA) is a free service offered by Google that generates detailed statistics about the visitors to a website. It is the most widely used website statistics service, currently in use at around 40% of the 10,000 most popular websites. GA can track visitors from search engines and other websites and direct traffic. GA is designed to be used by both the casual Web administrator to the advanced Web marketer.

In your general reports, GA will display:

number of visitors to your site (within custom date ranges)
average pages per visit
bounce rate
average time visitors are on your site
percentage of new visitors
traffic sources
a list of your most-visited pages

The more advanced user can create custom reports with an astounding amount of variables.

How to Add Google Analytics

Adding Google Analytics to your iMinistries website is as easy as "copy and paste."

We are excited to offer you the ability to track your websites hits through Google Analytics. Set up is easy and free and the information that Google provides you is very useful.

To begin, you must create a Google account. It is free.
After you create your account, go to Google Analytics.
Login with your new Google account.
At the bottom of the screen, click on "Add a website profile."
Next, enable the first radio button titled Add a Profile for a new domain.
Add your url into the URL area.
Click Finish.
The next page is the important one. Look at the code that is provide and find your Google tracking code. Here is a example:
Now, go to your website and log into Site Administration.
Click on Site Controls
Click on Site Preferences
Enter in your Google Analytics Account number. It will be in this format - UA-xxxxxxx-x.
Save
That's it! Your reports should begin to populate after 24 hours.

Free Trial

We believe the best way to describe our tools is for you to try them out yourself. We offer a 15-day free trial account which will give you a few days to use all of the features available to our paying clients. There's no risk and no obligation. Who knows, you might even enjoy the new control you have over your very own website.

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