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I'm using Google Analytics on my wordpress blog, and I'm seeing some suspicious numbers:

  • very low bounce rate (less than 1%)
  • when doing the live view, I always see page views as a multiple of two

My other blogs do not show this behavior. My suspicion is that the page count is sent twice to google, but I have no idea why this would be the case.

I'm using a plugin called "Google Analyticator" to track my blog. To the best of my knowledge (I looked through my template's files), there are no "direct" calls to Google.

What can I do to further track down this issue?

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    Sounds like in your theme file you are maybe loading header or footer twice? Depends on where your code is placed. View source and look for tracking code - is it there just once?
    – GhostToast
    Commented Aug 21, 2013 at 15:23
  • I'm not sure where the plugin "calls" google, but I'll check. Also, how can I figure out if the header or footer is loaded twice?
    – IronGoofy
    Commented Aug 21, 2013 at 15:50
  • After checking, it seems that the Analyticator adds to to the wp_head hook - which is called twice in my template (once with the comment "we need this for plugins"). Can I just remove the first (or second) call?
    – IronGoofy
    Commented Aug 21, 2013 at 16:10

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You shouldn't have a call to wp_head hook twice. Why does comments need its own call? Get rid of second call and see if that doesn't break anything.

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  • I probably wasn't clear enough .. the second call to wp_hook looked like this: <?php wp_head(); //we need this for plugins ?>. I'll try removing and see if this breaks anything.
    – IronGoofy
    Commented Aug 21, 2013 at 16:21

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