How do I keep track of signups on my website through Analytics?

[hiero]

Do I put some code in the .php page where the signup info is stored into the database?

I am trying to see how many people sign up per day , but I have had no luck when I put my signup.php page URL in the goals section.

[kmofo]

First off, don't put singup.php as your goal, but rather the page that says
"Thank you for registering". If the URL is identical and you cannot differentiate
the "signup" page from the "thank you" page, you can call this (maybe in an
onload event, as google suggests):
pageTracker._trackPageview("/funnel_G1/step1.html");


Don't forget to set your goal (and the pages in the funnel) according to the
pages you called above.

Anyway, this is covered thoroughly here : https://www.google.com/support/googleanalytics/bin/answer.py?answer=55514&hl=en_US&utm_id=ad

[hiero]

I read that article.

so do I put that code exactly like that anywhere in my signup page? I did that and I am getting errors

[rena]

Just for tracking..? why don to u read from users table by date.. make report group by date

[hiero]

I can't even get it to start up. It is stuck at 0 goals

[saidbaker]

I can't even get it to start up. It is stuck at 0 goals

you ok man

[kmofo]

First of all, you need to make sure that the Analytics javascript code is placed before
the part where you call _trackPageview. Then, to call the function do something like that:

<script type="text/javascript">
pageTracker._trackPageview("/funnel_G1/step1.html");
</script>

[lightlysalted]

KMOFO an excellent explanation, the thank you page will be more acurate because people will only see this page once they have signed up.