Is Google Analytics Installed? - GA? Firefox Extension
To get the best results out of Google Analytics, you need to ensure it’s installed on each page of a website. To automatically check for you, I’ve created a Firefox extension to do all the work.
GA? will put a little icon in the status bar of your Firefox web browser. It will then check each page you load to to see if it has Google Analytics installed. If so, it’ll show a colored bar chart. If Google Analytics doesn’t appear to be installed, it’ll show a gray bar chart.
This is a handy little tool if you have a smaller website, if want to do a spot check on a handful of pages or if you want to ensure that certain pages are being tracked.
Known Issues:
1. It doesn’t currently re-check for each tab or window you cycle through. It only checks the page that completed loading last. Updates are planned for it to refresh per window or tab focus. : Version 0.5 updates on tab change.
2. It doesn’t detect Google Analytics code put in the head of the document. It only searches the body of each page.
Try it out and let me know what you think.
GA? can be downloaded at Mozilla’s Addon site.
Developed and tested on a Mac running Firefox 2.x. Works well on Windows too. Unsure of how well it work in Firefox versions less or greater than 2.x.
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This is a fantastic invention - I work for an SEO company and I often have to check through entire sites to make sure that Analytics is on all of the pages. Great stuff.
- Jono Ellis October 23rd, 2007 at 7:58 am
Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.8 - Windows XP
Thanks Jono. A new version should be out next week that will check on tab change so it stays up to date.
- Thomas October 23rd, 2007 at 8:03 pm
Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.8 - Mac OS X
Any reason your extension does not show GA installed on my site? GA is installed on most pages, including the home page, yet your tool shows GA not installed (grey).
I’ve written a SEO tool that detects the “urchinTracker();” string and finds GA everytime. What is your indicator as to if GA is installed?
http://asbdc.ualr.edu/ecommerce/internet-marketing-tool.asp
- Timothy November 5th, 2007 at 2:54 pm
Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.9 - Windows XP
Excellent question and I think I have an answer. The extension looks for Google Analytics code in the body of the page. Since that’s where Google says to put it, that’s where I’m looking.
Your site has the Google Analytics code in the head of the document, not the body. That’s why my extension doesn’t see it. I’ll have to do more research to see if I can look in all HTML.
Thanks for pointing that out.
- Thomas November 6th, 2007 at 7:01 am
Safari 523.10 - Mac OS X
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Your Add-on is great, but would it be possible to set a parameter to be able to define what code will be looked for in the html source of the page? If this is possible, we could have an open generic add-on which could be used in a lot of case (for example: webtrends, xiti, personalized coding for google analytics…).
- Marius December 15th, 2007 at 4:01 am
Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.11 - Windows XP
I agree, that’d be a nice idea Marius. I’ll keep it in mind.
- Thomas December 16th, 2007 at 5:12 pm
Safari 523.10 - Mac OS X
Just to let you know. GA has just launched a new script for tracking websites. Your Extension does not work with the new version. The old version was “urchin.js” and now the new is “ga.js”. You can check the code on my website at http://www.chris-aranha.co.uk
thanks
- Chris December 19th, 2007 at 5:30 pm
Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.11 - Windows Vista
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