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peol on Jan 14, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: W3Fools - A W3Schools Intervention

Regarding the placement of GA, this is intentional. You don't want to count a visit before the page has actually been displayed to the user.

bentruyman on Jan 14, 2011 | [–]

Sauce: http://code.google.com/apis/analytics/docs/tracking/gaTracki...

Roridge on Jan 17, 2011 | [–]

Actually the modern GA way is using the async javascript the snippit for which goes before the </head> but hey W3Fools wasn't about being accurate... oh wait, it was.

http://code.google.com/intl/en-GB/apis/analytics/docs/tracki...

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