An Easy Fix For When Google Analytics Isn’t Tracking The Stats For Your Website

Writing by Nick Stamoulis Tweet

If you have Google Analytics installed on several websites at the same time and you notice that one of them is not registering any data it may be because you have the wrong tracker ID installed. It’s easy to get confused when you have more than one website being tracked under one account at the same time.

Your tracker ID is buried within the Google Analytics code and looks like this

(“UA-496543-4″);

The first part of that number, before the dash, could be a five or six digit number. The second number could be a single, double, or triple digit number depending on how many websites are being tracked under your account. The first number is your account number and the second number is the website being tracked.

When you login to your Google Analytics account and click on the account to get a view of all of your websites being tracked, you’ll see each website name and the tracking ID for that account. View Source for one of the web pages on your website and see if the Google Analytics tracking code matches what you see in your Google Analytics account for that website. If not, you have the wrong tracker ID code. It’s an easy fix.

All you have to do is find the correct tracker ID in your Google Analytics, the one that is associated with the particular website you are viewing. Copy the tracker ID and replace it in the Analytics code you see in your code. You’ll have to do that for each page on your website and re-upload each page using FTP to your server. You should be able to track all your data for that website now.