Asynchronous Google Analytics Snippet Placement

[Anonymous]

Hi!  I would like to know best practice of where to put the async GA snippet on Marketo landing pages?  The templated script has a comment block for it at the bottom of the blody but I believe this is for the older GA script as Google now recommends it should go at the bottom of the header. 

Thanks! 

[Anonymous · Accepted solution]

Follow what Google recommends.  Really there is not much of a downside on this one either will work but for easy of implementation, follow the rec.

Cheers,
Eric

[Anonymous]

I too am interested in this. We're using the async script but I have it at the end of the body as the landing page templates instruct.  I can't tell for sure if I'm losing traffic data on the GA side, but I'm equally concerned about the alternative- having the code in the head and have it interfere with Marketo's tracking. Has anyone experimented with this or have a definitive answer?

[Anonymous]

Jeff,

I switched my website over to the async code over a year ago with no problems and the month to month and yearly  numbers were inline with our norms.  There is no way to prove it definatively without a second monitoring system using another tool or serverside logs.

Cheers,
Eric