It’s a small trick that’s not that hard to figure out, but its a bit inaccurate. All you have to do is take a look at the Google Analytics code that most people have installed, and see what number a certain piece of code has.
First, right click on the page, then select "View Page Source", or whatever it’s called in your browser. Look for the Google Analytics code or use Ctrl+F to search for the word analytics. The piece of code that you see below is what you’re looking for.
See the number 44 that I marked with red in the pic above? Every time you add a new site to your Google Analytics account, it creates a new code, that just keeps increasing with each new addition.
What does the number 44 from my source code tell you? That at the time I created this blog, on July 31st, this was the 44th Google Analytics code that I generated, meaning I had at that time 43 prior domains or subdomains with Google Analytics installed at one time or another (yeah, I really like mini-sites).
I’ve said from the beginning that it’s inaccurate, because of a few simple reasons. The older the code that was created, the bigger the chance that it’s inaccurate. Some domains I let expire, some sites were deleted, some were added since July 31st when this blog was created and some don’t even use Google Analytics.
Still, it’s a pretty cool trick. Can’t find any use for it, but it’s cool anyway.
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Hector Jarquin responded on 09 Nov 2007 at 9:30 pm #
Very good catch, however remember that the accuracy will relay on how many google account each blogger have.
LoLo responded on 10 Nov 2007 at 2:47 am #
useless, but interesting
Frank C responded on 15 Nov 2007 at 9:37 pm #
You could also do this with Adsense although they may not have Adsense on all sites they’re running.