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Log in to your WordPress website and go to Plugins→Add New. Search for the “WPCode” plugin and click the “Install Now” button next to it.
WordPress Admin Area With Plugins, Add New Selected, and With WPCode armenia phone number resources Into the Search Box. The WPCode Plugin is Shown on the Screen
Once you’ve installed the plugin, click “Activate”.
Step 2. Add Your Measurement ID
After activating the WPCode plugin, you’ll see a new “Code Snippets” tab in your left-hand navigation menu. Click Code Snippets→Header & Footer.
Then, simply copy the Javascript code that Google Analytics gave you into the Header box and click Save Changes:
WordPress Admin Area With Code Snippets, Header & Footer Selected and Google Tag Gode Copied Into the Header Box
You’ve now connected Google Analytics to your website. However, you may need to wait up to 48 hours before It starts receiving data.
Once it’s working, you can visit your website yourself, and you should see that traffic when you log in to Google Analytics:
Google Analytics Account Shown With a Single User Active in the Past 30 Minutes, Indicating the Data Stream is Working
You can also check that Google Analytics is receiving data by going to Admin→Data Streams and looking for your website. It should be listed as “Receiving traffic in past 48 hours:”
Google Analytics Account Data Streams Shown With the Web Stream Indicated to be Receiving Traffic in Past 48 Hours
Understanding Metrics from Google Analytics 4 (to Help Grow Your Traffic)
Whether you’ve used Google Analytics a lot or are quite new to it, Google Analytics 4 can look a little complex at first glance.
Let’s review some basics to help you understand the data that Google Analytics is showing you.
Understanding the Google Analytics Home Page
When you view your GA4 property, you’ll see a “Reports snapshot” home page with some basic information. If you’ve never used Google Analytics before, it’s fine to view this page and stop there! There’s enough here to be useful to you.
The home page looks like this. I’ve added numbers to some key parts that we’ll run through.
Google Analytics 4 Home Page With a Reports Snapshot Shown, Areas Numbered as Follows. 1 - Date Picker, 2 - Graph of Users, 3 - Users in Last 30 Minutes
On the top right, you’ll see a date range. This defaults to the past 28 days. You can change it to anything you want to see, such as a different snapshot.
The big graph here shows some key data for the date range selected. This gives you some quick insights: a rough estimate of your total users, whether your traffic is peaking or falling on specific days of the week, how long people are staying engaged with your site on average, and how much revenue your site is bringing in (if you’re tracking that in Google Analytics).
The box on the right shows real-time data, which shows what’s happening on your site right now. Real-time reports can be a useful way to check that Analytics is working and give you up-to-the-minute insights.
You’ll see other details once you scroll down the Reports snapshot page. We’ll take a look at a couple of key sections here:
WordPress Admin Area With Plugins, Add New Selected, and With WPCode armenia phone number resources Into the Search Box. The WPCode Plugin is Shown on the Screen
Once you’ve installed the plugin, click “Activate”.
Step 2. Add Your Measurement ID
After activating the WPCode plugin, you’ll see a new “Code Snippets” tab in your left-hand navigation menu. Click Code Snippets→Header & Footer.
Then, simply copy the Javascript code that Google Analytics gave you into the Header box and click Save Changes:
WordPress Admin Area With Code Snippets, Header & Footer Selected and Google Tag Gode Copied Into the Header Box
You’ve now connected Google Analytics to your website. However, you may need to wait up to 48 hours before It starts receiving data.
Once it’s working, you can visit your website yourself, and you should see that traffic when you log in to Google Analytics:
Google Analytics Account Shown With a Single User Active in the Past 30 Minutes, Indicating the Data Stream is Working
You can also check that Google Analytics is receiving data by going to Admin→Data Streams and looking for your website. It should be listed as “Receiving traffic in past 48 hours:”
Google Analytics Account Data Streams Shown With the Web Stream Indicated to be Receiving Traffic in Past 48 Hours
Understanding Metrics from Google Analytics 4 (to Help Grow Your Traffic)
Whether you’ve used Google Analytics a lot or are quite new to it, Google Analytics 4 can look a little complex at first glance.
Let’s review some basics to help you understand the data that Google Analytics is showing you.
Understanding the Google Analytics Home Page
When you view your GA4 property, you’ll see a “Reports snapshot” home page with some basic information. If you’ve never used Google Analytics before, it’s fine to view this page and stop there! There’s enough here to be useful to you.
The home page looks like this. I’ve added numbers to some key parts that we’ll run through.
Google Analytics 4 Home Page With a Reports Snapshot Shown, Areas Numbered as Follows. 1 - Date Picker, 2 - Graph of Users, 3 - Users in Last 30 Minutes
On the top right, you’ll see a date range. This defaults to the past 28 days. You can change it to anything you want to see, such as a different snapshot.
The big graph here shows some key data for the date range selected. This gives you some quick insights: a rough estimate of your total users, whether your traffic is peaking or falling on specific days of the week, how long people are staying engaged with your site on average, and how much revenue your site is bringing in (if you’re tracking that in Google Analytics).
The box on the right shows real-time data, which shows what’s happening on your site right now. Real-time reports can be a useful way to check that Analytics is working and give you up-to-the-minute insights.
You’ll see other details once you scroll down the Reports snapshot page. We’ll take a look at a couple of key sections here: