Let's first establish why would you need to check if a website has Google Analytics installed.

Two things

If you're here seeking answer to "How do I tel if a website has Google Analytics?" then chances are, you are performing an SEO Audit for a client and you are checking whether he has GA installed or not. Believe me, there are websites; established websites that don't even use Google Analytics.

2nd instance is that you wanna check if your own website has Google Analytics or not.
## 4 Ways to Check if a Website is Connected to Google Analytics

### 1. Check via Google Tag Assistant

There is this amazing free Chrome extension called, Google Tag Assistant. You can use this extension to see what tags a certain website is using.

Using this extension you can check if a website has added Google Analytics Tag a very easy yet useful way to check if a website is connected to Google Analytics.

You can identify GA of those website who added the tag using Google Tag Manager.
### 2. View Source Code look for (UA-)

This is an evergreen method to look whether a website is making use of Google Analytics.

It is quite simple, open the website and click ctrl+U it will open up the source code in the new tab.

view-source:domain.com this how the website will be opened in the new tab.

Now you have to click ctrl+f it will open the find tool and then type UA- and hit enter.

Voila! Now it will easily help you find the code. You will search for "UA-" because that is how the Google Analytics code begins. 

By the way, UA stands for Universal Analytics.
### 3. Use a free third-party tool to let it find Google Analytics for you

There is a simple free tool out there that let's you check if a website is connected to Google Analytics.

The tool is web-based just a few clicks away

Just go to [www.gachecker.com](http://gachecker.com)

As soon as you hit enter, the tool checks for following tags

 	- Global Site Tag

 	- Universal Analytics

 	- Analytics Classic

 	- Analytics Remarketing

Additionally, the tool also looks for 

 	- Google Analytics (ga.js)

 	- Google Analytics Remarketing (dc.js)

 	- Google Universal Analytics (analytics.js)

 	- Google Analytics Global Site Tag (gtag.js)

 	- Google Analytics Experiments (ga_exp.js)

 	- Google Tag Manager (gtm.js)

 	- Google AdWords Conversion (conversion.js)

 	- Google AdWords Phone Conversion (loader.js)

 	- Google AdWords Remarketing (conversion.js)

 	- Google AdWords Dynamic Remarketing (conversion.js)

 	- Google Optimize

 	- Google Surveys

 	- Google DoubleClick

Very handy tool that's just few clicks away.
### 4. Just open Google Analytics with signed into Google Account

Funnily enough sometimes this turns out to be the last thing we do.

Just log into your Google Account and open [analytics.google.com](http://analytics.google.com)

As you hit enter with that URL, you will be able to see the Google Analytics dashboard.

So, there you go 4 super easy way to check if a website is connected to Google Analytics