To create or view google analytics report for your website, sign up for a free account in analytics.google.com, once the account is created, Dashboard will be visible.
- Visit analytics.google.com, click ADMIN on the bottom left menu to open setting page to create account for website
- Click -> Create Account
- Enter Account Name and scroll down to see advanced settings
- In advanced settings enable Create a Universal Google Analytics property. Enter target website. Click create both Google Analytics 4 and universal google analytics property and click Next
- Enter required details and click Create
- Once Created, A universal google property will be created as below image
- To get details from website to sync, Realtime View, Demographics, Page Views and more Reports, Select Property Setting under property and go to Data Stream
- Select the displayed website to open the Tagging Instructions
- Copy the Google Site tags (gtag.js) to paste it on the <head> section of the website HTML.
- Pasting the Gtag in website HTML, this can be Done by installing a WordPress plugin “Insert Header and Footer by WPBeginner “
- Go-to Settings -> Insert Headers and Footers
- Paste the gtag copied from Google Analytics to Scripts in Header and click Save
Thus, WordPress website has been successfully added to Google Analytics and it takes about 24 – 48 Hours to get the user data from the website and display in Google Analytics.
