Yesterday, Google introduced their analytics service, which is basically a free version of Urchin, the web stats company Google acquired. It’s a third party service that requires an account with a login/password, and the user must place a snippet of JavaScript code on every page they wish to track.

I have added Google analytics to this site just to see how it works, but I’m having trouble with Google Analytics and Blogger. I have a blog on Blogger that I use solely for testing purposes. When Google announced their release of Analytics, I immediately thought: “Finally Google is going to address statistics for Blogger!” But so far, I’ve had no luck with it.

On the analytics instructions page, you are told to place their JavaScript code after the head tags in the pages you want to track. I’ve done that, but the analytics report pages think otherwise. This could just be a lag, but maybe Analytics just won’t work with Blogger? It’s a curious problem.

I will report back as soon as I get to the bottom of it. But I honestly thought that after logging in to blogger, there would be some mention of using Analytics, and vice versa. Right now, that’s not the case whatsoever.

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