Where to Put Stats Code in WordPress

**accelerator** · 24-11-10

Hi Guys

I need to add StatCounter and Google Analytics code to my shiny new WordPress blog, can anyone tell me where it should go?

Ta Muchly

**dc000000** · 24-11-10

there are plenty of plug-ins for adding analytics. The Yoast one is my weapon of choice.
http://yoast.com/wordpress/google-analytics/

For the statcounter or to hard code analytics select appearance, then editor and insert it into header.php or footer.php

**st0rm** · 30-01-11

or you could place a text widget into the side bar and paste the HTML into there, I use statpress for all my stats

**babrees** · 30-01-11

It depends upon your theme, but I would just put it int the footer.php

**jimbanks** · 23-03-11

If you are tracking Google Analytics then use the asynchronous version of their tag and place it in header.php rather than the footer, it won't stop the rest of the page loading as the old version used to do.

You can use any number of plugins, and if that is your preferred route then I also would go with the Yoast version, but plugins slow your site down, and as the header appears on every page there is no harm in hard coding it....unless you change the WP theme in which case your header will change.