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by peol 5629 days ago
Regarding the placement of GA, this is intentional. You don't want to count a visit before the page has actually been displayed to the user.
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Actually the modern GA way is using the async javascript the snippit for which goes before the </head> but hey W3Fools wasn't about being accurate... oh wait, it was.

http://code.google.com/intl/en-GB/apis/analytics/docs/tracki...