Google owns Blogger (Blogspot), everyone knows that. But we all Blogger bloggers miss the statistics module that for example Wordpress.com blogs already has. Since they’re in the same family I think it would be a good idea to implement Google Analytics with Blogger. But you never know, it might show in the future.

However, if you want to track your visitors on your Blogger/Blogspot without putting up a linkback-image to the tracking-service on your blog (that’s so 90’s!) then Google Analytics is the tool for you.

Since everyone doesn’t know how to do it, here is a little short tutorial for the newbies:

How to set it up

• Go to Google Analytics to sign up or log in.
• When logged in, choose to create a new account (click on the menu next to “My Analytics Accounts” at the top right of the page and choose “Create a new account”) and follow the steps. When you get to “Tracking Code“, open up a new window and log in to your Blogger account.
• Go to your blog’s settings and choose “Layout” and then “Page Elements“
• Have a look at the footer (it has to be the footer!) of the design and choose to “Add a Gadget“.
• Find the “HTML/JavaScript” element click on it.
• Now a new page appears called “Configure HTML/JavaScript”. Don’t write anything in the title column. Copy and paste the code from Google Analytics (only copy and past the “New Tracking Code”) in the content box and “Save“.
• Now your page element has been added. Click on “Save” on the “Page Elements Page” as well.
• Then continue the steps on Google Analytics and you’re done!

Or if you are familiar with coding:

• From dashboard: – Settings – Layout – Edit HTML
• Scroll down to the very bottom in the box and locate the tag.
• Copy and past the Google Analytics code right BEFORE the </ body> tag and then save.

To check your stats you just have to click on your account on the first page of Google Analytics. If it says “Tracking Unknown” in the status column, even after 24h (you have to wait a day until it starts tracking), you have done something wrong.

Also, you might want to get your blog “Google verified” so your blog gets crawled – your chances to show up on search results increases. Here is a tutorial for you Wordpress.com users.

16 Responses to “How to track your Blogger statistics with Google”

1. Erin says:

   November 22, 2008 at 15:05

   Thanks so much for this! Made the process so easy and clear cut. I love your blog, I’m so glad I stumbled upon it .
2. Jody says:

   December 8, 2008 at 21:41

   I tried to follow your instructions but it seems Blogger has changed since it was written…you wouldn’t happen to have an updated version?
3. Sam says:

   December 16, 2008 at 18:54

   Jody, it worked for me. But i had to do it a bit different than stated above. I had to go to Layout, Page Elements and then put the code in the footer as she says.

   That should work, works for me. Google Analytics takes 24 hours to get the data though, just in case you weren’t sure.
4. Krishell B says:

   December 31, 2008 at 07:22

   Thank you, that was VERY helpful! I don’t think I would have been able to figure that out on my own. May I link back to your article?
5. sarah says:

   January 5, 2009 at 18:21

   Thanks for this info, it was most helpful!
6. Jonathan says:

   January 10, 2009 at 17:30

   So far, so good. Thanks for the clean steps to add the function.
7. Anomolli says:

   January 26, 2009 at 08:43

   I can’t seem to find the “footer” in the template. Can you please tell me where this is or what the HTML tag of the footer should look like? Can i just add a DIV tage with ID=”footer”? Thanks in advanced.
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   March 11, 2009 at 02:10

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9. Colette Straw says:

   April 30, 2009 at 14:55

   Thanks for the great post. I have a blog on blogger and didn’t realise you could add stats until now that is
10. @rationalDude says:

    May 6, 2009 at 17:43

    That was most helpful, I got it working in 15 min,
    T H A N K Y O U
11. Raman VikramAdith says:

    May 16, 2009 at 10:29

    Thanks a load! Was very useful. :)
12. KairosDrasis says:

    May 27, 2009 at 15:09

    @Anomolli:

    You don’t need to edit the template directly. Go to:
    Dashboard–>Layout–>Page Elements–>scroll down.
    Click “add a gadget” (at the bottom). Find “HTML/Javascript” gadget in the list, add it and paste into the textarea.

    Good luck,
    Kairos
13. Joanna says:

    May 30, 2009 at 16:29

    Hi! Thanks you loads, it was very helpful! :]
    Anyways take care~~
14. Jason C. says:

    June 1, 2009 at 18:25

    Thanks for the tip. I just employed your advice and hopefully I’ll see some improvement over time.
    THANKS AGAIN!
15. Steve says:

    June 24, 2009 at 00:56

    That is very helpful as I have not been tracking my stats as I didn’t realize it was this easy.
16. EgoBigio says:

    June 30, 2009 at 20:51

    5 minutes to reach the goal
    perfect
    thankyou