How to turn on Google Analytics for your site in 2 lines of configuration: a custom IHttpModule
Note: this entry has moved.
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!