HOW TO KNOW IF GOOGLE ANALYTICS IS FUNCTIONING ON YOUR SITE

Many Bloggers underestimate the importance of Google analytics,some don't even use it.If you are one of those Bloggers and you take your blog seriously then you better configure it,this will give you more data for your websites,detailed statistics and the goodness is you can add as many sites as you want.

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But if you know about Google analytics and you are very certain Google analytics is collecting data for your site,here is what you should do to make sure everything is working.

Google introduced a tag assistant recording, Google Tag Assistant Recordings is an instant validation, diagnosis, and data troubleshooting tool. Google Tag Assistant Recordings lets you

1. Validate your website and analyze your Analytics implementation.
2. By recording a critical user flow, you can find and correct problems that, left unattended to, can lead to inaccurate or corrupted data in your Analytics properties and views. 
3. Google Tag Assistant Recordings can also be used to review your tags across other Google products, such as AdWords, DoubleClick and Tag Manager

If you dont have this too installed,then there is no way to be sure if your analytic properties and views are accurate.

Google does a more than just record your site information,If  a typical user flow might start with a user searching the web for your product, then clicking a resulting paid ad or organic (unpaid) link that takes that user to your site. The user may browse your product catalog, add an item to a shopping cart (which might be hosted on a different domain), review their order, provide shipping and payment information, click a Submit Order button, and finally, return to your site’s Thank You page, where you record a Goal completion.

Google Tag Assistant Recordings enabled, each of these pages is part of the recording, even those that are not part of your site or that are constructed dynamically (such as the shopping cart’s Review Order page). For each page in the flow, Google Tag Assistant Recordings conducts a number of tests and gathers information on the results, which it will report to you when the recording is finished. Google Tag Assistant Recordings reports only include the data collected by your own flow; they won’t be cluttered with information from other users’ activities.

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GOOGLE TAG ASSISTANT RECORDINGS  DISADVANTAGES

1. Any Unsaved recordings are temporary; they are stored until you close your browser window or start a new recording.
2. Saving a recording only preserves the Analytics portion of the recording; the Google Tag Assistant portion and associated report is not saved. You can print your reports to PDF if you wish to preserve them.
3. Google Tag Assistant Recordings is currently available in English only.

HOW TO INSTALL

As of now Google Tag Assistant Recordings is only available as part of the Google Tag Assistant Chrome browser extension.So you need to install Chrome Browser and install the extension in your browser.

For more about Google Tag Assistant recording visit Google's analytics support page

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