Visitor and traffic statistics for your Wild Apricot website

You probably want to know who visits your site and how much traffic it gets - page views, unique visitors and so on. We decided not to reinvent the wheel trying to build our own website statistics into Wild Apricot - instead, you can use excellent free third-party analytics tools, for example Google Analytics.

Google Analytics is a free service that allows you to track how many and where your visitors come from and how they interact with your site. It is absolutely free and easy to configure and gives you a lot more information than a simple hit counter.

Here are the steps on how you can set it up to use with your Wild Apricot account:

You have to have a Google account to login to the Google system

Create it if you don't have one. Go to: https://www.google.com/accounts/NewAccount

Create a new Google Analytics account.

Go to: http://www.google.com/analytics
There are four simple steps:

General information

Website's URL - enter your Wild Apricot URL
Account Name - you can call it any name
Time zone - Country and time

Contact Information

Enter your contact information and press continue

Accept user agreement

You must accept it by checking Yes

Get Tracking code - this is the code that you will have to copy and paste into your Wild Apricot system

Highlight all the code and copy

Go to your Wild Apricot account

Go to Settings / Global JavaScript


Paste the code from Google Analytics into the text field and click on Save button. Code will be applied to all of the web pages, it will also be automatically applied to all pages that you might create in the future.

Go back to Google Analytics and check the verification status.

Usually it might take some time for Google to check your status.

The icon indicates the status of your tracking. Once it changes to a checkmark your tracking code has been verified. Note that it might take Google up to 24 hours to verify the status.

Now you will have access to a wealth of information about your website