: Problem to stop Google-Analytics from tracking my website In June 2012 I added my website (a blog that I host on my own server) to Google-Analytics. In January 2013 I decided to use Piwik

@Cody1181609

Hi agree that you need to remove the similar code like the one below. This can be found in the header area. If you are using Wordpress it is basically inserted under header.php.


var _gaq = _gaq || [];
_gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-XXXXXXXX-1']);
_gaq.push(['_trackPageview']);

(function() {
var ga = document.createElement('script'); ga.type = 'text/javascript'; ga.async = true;
ga.src = ('https:' == document.location.protocol ? 'https://ssl' : 'http://www') + '.google-analytics.com/ga.js';
var s = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(ga, s);
})();


If it is still working then basically there is another code in the website hidden. In Wordpress, there are a lot of themes that integrated some kind of a plug in that you just need to embed some code in the option.


Check the SEO plug ins if it allows or enable analytics to track your website. You can disable it or just remove the code under it.
Check the theme options if there are options in the header area that you can embed the analytics code in it.

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@Angela700

There is no Google analytics on your own site anymore, however your site iFrames content from vimeo.com, which contains google analytics tracking.

<iframe src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/" webkitallowfullscreen="" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" width="560"></iframe>


This site has GA tracking, and your plugin is detecting the tracking from that site. So your site itself won't be tracked in Google analytics*, if you absolutely want to stop any reference to analytics from your site remove the iFrame'ed content.

*The only exception being users who have a old copy of your page in their webbrowsers cache which still contains GA, this will still send a ping to the Google servers but as you disabled your site their it won't be tracked.

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@BetL925

To stop Google Analytics tracking your website, you can delete Google's script in your webpages.

Script looks like this:

<script type="text/javascript">
var _gaq = _gaq || [];
_gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-XXXXXXXX-1']);
_gaq.push(['_trackPageview']);

(function() {
var ga = document.createElement('script'); ga.type = 'text/javascript'; ga.async = true;
ga.src = ('https:' == document.location.protocol ? 'https://ssl' : 'http://www') + '.google-analytics.com/ga.js';
var s = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(ga, s);
})();
</script>


Without this script, Google can't track your website anymore.

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