Get added to Google Analytics with your Carleton email address

Google Analytics is a web analytics service offered by Google to report and track website traffic.

Google’s verification processes and security measures inhibit access from multiple locations using the same generic email account. The security measures notice multiple IP addresses and can lock out some members from accessing the analytics services. To avoid this problem, users can add create a Gmail address or use their Carleton email address to create a Google account for Google Analytics. This provides accessibility to all accounts. To learn more, check out our post Logging into Google Analytics – the Pandemic Edition.

While signing in with Gmail is the easiest way to be added to Google Analytics, we suggest using your Carleton email address. This prevents the problem of being locked out of the analytics account. To do this, you must create a google account with it.

This can be done in 5 steps:

1. Use an existing email address to sign up for Google with this link: https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/27441?hl=en.

• You can find the instructions under Step 1 to the subheading Use an existing address

2. Follow those instructions

3. Once you have completed those steps, open the link here: https://itsjira.carleton.ca/servicedesk/customer/portal/5

4. Request to be added to your website on analytics. Include your name and the name of all the websites you need access to.

5. We will let you know when it’s done!

Need help? Once you have completed the form in Step 3, we will be in contact with you.