Google analytics is the best way to document the website and also it well be keeping the day to day the information to the website . Google Analytics is the enterprise-class web analytics solution that gives you rich insights into your website traffic and marketing effectiveness
If you have G-mail account means you have it all under webmasters tool.. There is nothing to install. just log in to your G account and go to webmasters tool add your site there follow the easy instructions and you are done.. I will ask you to put a file in your site... go to your site cpanel using any FTP and upload that and then you will have day to day report for your site.. G analytic is just amazing.
you may look at this , it teach you step by step to create the Google Analytic. It easy to create if you follow the step and read it when register. http://www.flyteblog.com/flyte/2008/12/setting-up-google-analytics-a-stepbystep-guide.html
I hope the link in your previous post gives you exact steps to get into google analytics. But where do you want to use it. Some platforms provide options to include in settings.
Not necessary unless you have developed the pages individually or if the platform that you have used does not support plugging in analytics code.
Try this link, which will help you. http://www.conversationmarketing.com/2007/02/google_analytics_video_tutoria_1.htm
StatCounter.com is also very good. It is like Analytics, only that it gives you real time results, it has more features, etc. It’s a free service. You should have both showing you everything that is happening at your websites.
If you want to tracking your website visitors details so Google analytic is better tool to analysis all the details regarding visitors and more ......
Google Analytic is a kind of tracking tool that used to tracking the business like to know about number visitor, number of impression, number of goal that achieved.
have you looked at seomoz.org.. you can embed google analytics there to get even better insight of your website
Is Google Analytics used unanimously by everyone? Or, when you become a big-money-making-site, do you upgrade to another package?
You can create a different header file, and then call it in all files. So you have to paste the analytics code only in header file before closing <HEAD> tag.
Google Analytics is very important tool for webmaster it measure and gives the information about how much of visitors visit in your site by which source and when and how much time they stay in your site these all things you can know by Google analytics.
yeah ,googel analytist is a great tool for me , everyday i will check my sites analytists ! really so useful for me !
First you should have the FTP of your site. Then go to Google analytis and download a code. Put this code in the header section (if you have a html site) or if you have wordpress then put it in the header.php or footer.php and it should work fine. Also if you are using Wordpress then there are a number of plugins available as well.