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Google Analytics - can I place a script in the footer?

I want to add Google Analytics to our website and read some conflicting information on where to put the script tag.

Google says to put it before the closing tag </ head>: http://code.google.com/apis/analytics/docs/tracking/asyncTracking.html

As our site is designed, this will mean editing each page. This is not a big deal if I need to do this, however our site also uses header and footer files.

These header and footer files have HTML code and they fall into the tags <body>even </body>after the page loads.

It would be much easier to add a script to the header or footer file. I would just insert it there once, and it will serve the code on each page.

My question is: can I do this? Can I move the script fragment inside the footer even though it is not up to the tag </head>that Google offers?

Am I asking for problems if I do this?

Thank!!

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f you have a header and footer file, why not just add your own Google Analytics code to it? Unless, of course, each page has a unique footer / header page. Then I recommend you take a look at MVC .

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