Google Analytics please

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  bronz · Member · May 30, 2012 at 1:04 pm

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  Is there any chance of allowing the javascript for Google Analytics to run on a wordpress.com site? I haven’t tried it but it looks like it would give me a lot of good information about my blog.
  Thanks.
  Shmuel
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  absurdoldbird · Member · May 31, 2012 at 1:21 am

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  Javascript can’t be used here for security reasons and this has been asked for numerous times – it won’t happen here. If you want to use Google Analytics and/or Javascript for that or anything else on a WordPress blog, you’ll need to self-host your blog, pay for webhosting and then use the WordPress software.

  Here’s the difference between WordPress.com and WordPress.org:
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/com-vs-org/

  An alternative to Google Analytics, if you don’t get enough information from the WordPress.com onboard stats info, is to add the HTML code from one of the free ones to a text widget and put it in your sidebar or, if your theme uses it, a footer, on your homepage.