Re: [IUG] Google Analytics - Placement of script, warnings or drawbacks?

[Michelle Watson <michelle dot watson at deakin dot edu dot au>]

Something I forgot to mention in my earlier email that might be of 
interest to libraries that have a similar IT set up to us - because 
this is code that triggers interaction with an external site, Deakin 
on campus users are prompted to authenticate as soon as they click on 
a page that has the code embedded in it, in order to get outside of 
Deakin's firewall.

Because we don't want users to have to authenticate when they click 
on a link to the catalogue, I've had to take the code out.  We cannot 
implement until we change our on campus set up.

Cheers,
Michelle.

At 02:06 PM 7/05/2008, you wrote:
> At IUG, I attended the Google Analytics session.  It appeared 
> something very easy to do so I went ahead and set up this on our 
> library.alliant.edu pages today.  I put the script in the bottom 
> logo as instructed in the presentation.  The instructions for Google 
> Analytics call for the script to appear before </body> and the 
> botlogo token appears right before the </body>.  However by reading 
> the IUG archives, I found out that at least one person put the 
> script in the toplogo and one put it someplace else I think.  I 
> viewed the source and it didn't seem like it was in the top or the 
> bot logos.  Is there a good reason for the script not to be in the botlogo? -
>
> For those of you using Google Analytics, are there any warnings or drawbacks?
>
> Thank you,
>
> Heather Parker
> Electronic Resource Coordinator
> Alliant International University Libraries, San Diego
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