How To Check If Your Google Analytics Is Installed Properly
SiteScan is a diagnostic tool from EpikOne that verifies if your Google Analytics (GA) Tracking Code is installed properly on your website.
SiteScan is designed to help you configure Google Analytics, whether using the “legacy” urchin.js code or newer ga.js tracking code. This diagnostic tool scans for several common configuration pitfalls and organizes the results in an easy to read CSV file. SiteScan identifies pages on your website that have Google Analytics Tracking Code properly and improperly installed. For pages with improperly installed tracking code, the associated error is noted and described in the report. This makes it easy for you to isolate the pages with tracking problems, fix them, and effectively manage your Google Analytics Tracking Code installation.
This is a sample report when I ran the diagnostic tool for web2mom.com
The detailed report was available for download as a CSV file. The file had the following information:
- URL of each page in the blog
- Page was tagged or not
- Google account number of each page
- Errors (pipe delimited) and
- Extra information
SiteScan checks the following on websites with old tracking code (urchin.js):
- Every Page Tagged with Tracking Code
- Every Page Calling the urchinTracker() Function
- Every Page Declaring a Google Analytics Account
- No New Tracking Code Found
- Query Parameters Check to Determine if a Filter is Required
SiteScan checks the following on websites with new tracking code (ga.js):
- Every Page Tagged with New Tracking Code
- Every Page Calling the pageTracker._trackPageview(); Method
- Every Page Declaring a Google Analytics Account
- No Old Tracking Code Found
- Query Parameters Check to Determine if a filter is Required
Limitations
SiteScan Does Not Scan or Complete the Following:
- Directories with more then 1000 files
- Pages that are protected by a Robot.txt file (meaning that if your pages are not indexed by Google, they will not be scanned).
- Pages that are password protected
- Checkout Pages or any area of your website that requires a certain sequence of events or trigger
Want to give the google analytics diagnostic tool a try? Check out www.sitescanga.com http://cli.gs/WSm7au
Good Luck,
Shri Nagesh 
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