We keep coming across the same problem – we work with clients, get Google Analytics set up and at some point, the web developer makes a change to the site and all of a sudden the Analytics code is gone! It’s not exactly obvious when this happens either. This has led to issues of certain pages not being tracked and the Analytics data to be inaccurate. Very frustrating. This is definitely not meant as a stab at web developers – we are all human. These things happen. Nonetheless, it is frustrating. It becomes obvious when the code is removed off the homepage as traffic drops immediately, but if the page in question is deep in the site, it is difficult to spot.
I was complaining to my co-workers about this because the only way for me to check a site is to go through EVERY SINGLE PAGE of the site and check the html code to see if Analytics is there. This is, as you can imagine, incredibly time consuming. SEO-Browser makes this a bit easier because you can click through the pages of the site and it checks the html code for you.
Still though, you have to click on every link to every page of a site. Now you can imagine, this is no easy task if you are looking at a 100+ page site.
So while I was complaining, Jeff sends me a link to this great tool. I was skeptical at first but thought I would try it out. It is called SiteScan by EpicOne and it does just that – it scans any site and spits back a report letting you know if any pages are missing the code, and if they are, it gives you the URL of the page! Brilliant! The free version let’s you run 11 or 12 tests a day!
I have gone through all of my clients and checked. Luckily, there has only been one who had a bit of code missing. Phew! This tool saves me hours of time. Maybe it can help you as well!
Great for checking Google Analytics and other analytics implementations is http://www.notagsnoglory.com
this also monitors your site afterwards, if tags are missing you receive an email.
Glad I found this information on google when I was surfing the internet. Good STUFF!