5 Clicks To Find Your Google Analytics Tracking Code
In this article, we’ll show you how to find your GA 4 Tracking Code in 5 easy clicks. If you already have your Analytics account setup, then this will be easy.
Login to your Google Analytics account and you’ll see the main dashboard. Once you’re there, do the following 5 steps…
STEP 1 – Click Admin (lower left).
STEP 2 – Click “Data Streams” in the Property column
STEP 3 – In the Data Streams panel, click your website name
STEP 4 – Scroll down to the “Google Tag” panel and click “View Tag Instructions”
STEP 5 – Click the “Install Manually” tab and there it is! And that’s it!
Copy & paste it
Simply highlight the whole code with your mouse cursor, and then right click it to Copy and Paste the code onto your website.
PRO TIP: Where to copy and paste your Google Analytics gtag.js code
Google recommends that you copy and paste your code into the <head> section of your website’s HTML. While this is their official recommendation, did you know that you can copy and paste your Google Analytics tracking code into the your website’s HTML Footer?
Our pro tip is to actually paste it into the Footer HTML section. Why? Scripts in the Header will load first – this is where most services want you to paste their scripts because they want their scripts to load first on your website. The problem with loading scripts like this first is simple – they’ll load first while the rest of your site will load second. Scripts in the header can slow down your website’s overall load time. However, scripts in the Footer will load last. This means your site (e.g. image files, text, design layout, etc) will load first, and your scripts will load after that.
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