I want to add google analytics to our website and have read some conflicting info about where to put the script tag.
Google says to put it before the closing </ head>
tag: http://code.google.com/apis/analytics/docs/tracking/asyncTracking.html
The way our site is designed, this would mean making an edit to every page. It's not that big of a deal if I need to do this, however, our site also uses header and footer include files.
These header & footer files have html code in them and fall just inside the <body>
and </body>
tags once the page is loaded.
It would be so much easier to just add the script to the header or the footer file. I'd just paste it in there once and it would be serving up the code on every page.
My question is: Can I do this? Can I move the script snippet inside footer include file even though it's not before the </head>
tag as google suggests?
Am I asking for problems if i do it this way?
Thanks!!