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I had trouble setting up GA on one of my websites so I set up a very simple test environment with a new domain name and just a single page - the default page. Even in this simple environment I couldn't get GA to validate me.

My environment is as follows:

Site: www.example.com My default page contains the following:

<html>
<head>
<script type="text/javascript">

var _gaq = _gaq || [];
  _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-25700000-1']);
  _gaq.push(['_trackPageview']);

  (function() {
  var ga = document.createElement('script'); ga.type = 'text/javascript'; ga.async = true;
    ga.src = ('https:' == document.location.protocol ? 'https://ssl' : 'http://www') + '.google-analytics.com/ga.js';
    var s = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(ga, s);})();

</script>
</head>
<body>
example.com Google Analytics test
</body>
</html>

I am 10000000% sure that the tracking code provided to me is the tracking code included in the above script. I simply copied and pasted the code block.

I've waited days after doing the config since I know it may take GA time, but certainly shouldn't take 3 days.

The old version of GA shows:

and the new version shows:

Note that the screenshot of the new version has the weird "December 1969" thing which I've read about in other forums and seems (?) unrelated to my problem.

How can I make this work?

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  • did you ever find an answer to this?
    – Pure.Krome
    Oct 31, 2012 at 4:09

1 Answer 1

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Your page has no <body>...</body> section, which makes it invalid HTML. Try putting a body in and see if that cures the problem.

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  • Good catch - Unfortunately I just posted the wrong code in the question; it's right in the actual version.
    – Howiecamp
    Sep 16, 2011 at 20:42

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