How to turn on Google Analytics for your site in 2 lines of configuration: a custom IHttpModule
Ok, so I got excited with Google Analytics , thanks to Scott Hanselman. So I decided to give it a quick try.
Turns out, you cannot give it a quick try unless you start changing your site's pages to include a piece of script before the </body>... yuck!
I searched the web and found no one who had done the simplest possible thing to have transparent support for Google Analytics on your site without touching a single page: a custom IHttpModule that uses the HttpResponse.Filter property to detect </body> and add the script automatically before sending the buffered output.
If your site is not a high-traffic, performance-sensitive one (i.e. your corporate site/blog/small community site), you may find this little guy useful (note that I only had about 20' to get it working ;-)). Download the module for .NET v.2.0 or the one for .NET 1.1. Configuration is mininal:
<
configuration
>
<
appSettings
>
<
add
key
="GoogleAnalyticsAccount"value="[Google Analytics Account #]"/>
</
appSettings
>
<
connectionStrings
/>
<
system.web
>
<
compilation
debug
="true"/>
<
authentication
mode
="Windows"/>
<
httpModules
>
<
add
name
="GoogleAnalytics"type="Clarius.GoogleAnalyticsModule"/>
</
httpModules
>
</
system.web
>
</
configuration
>
Enjoy!
