Simple Google Analytics - Support

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It does help a lot Eric - thanks. I have one question regarding what you wrote though - you mention not including the code on the checkout success page and instead including it on tpl_main_page.php - that confuses me.

I think maybe you're saying you check the page's title to see if they're on the checkout success page? I don't understand though what the advantage of doing that vs. putting the code in the checkout success template itself.

Maybe since you mentioned you use the code for more than conversion tracking - goals, etc. you need the code in every page?

The tracking code must be on every page for it to work (in the case of Google Analytics). In the case of "conversion" tracking type codes (usually only appear on the "thank you" page), I check to find out what page is being called by the script (checkout_success) and if it is an order confirmation, I include that line of code onto the page.

I only use the tpl_main_page template so as to keep everything under "one roof". It's much easier to manage that way (I run numerous tracking scripts and affiliate programs that need to track sales). The other option is to include the code in the "footer" template. I use to do that, but found it works better for me (management wise) leaving it in only one file.

Here is a link to an older post on the way I do it.

http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showpo...&postcount=255