Google added a section to Analytics that allows you to see demographic information about who is coming to your website. This can be very useful, and creepy, information about your users and allow you to make intelligent, or creepy, adjustments to your site and marketing efforts. Implementing this is pretty simple unless you use the Yoast Google Analytics for WordPress plugin, in which case you have to implement an, as they say in the industry, ‘work around’.

First login to wordpress and goto the settings section for the Google Analytics for WordPress plugin

Halfway down that page you will see the “Show Advanced Settings” option:
show advanced settings option in yoast Google Analytics for WordPress

Then scroll down to the “Host ga.js locally:” check box and click it.

Once you click on that you will be presented with a text box where you will past this URL: https://stats.g.doubleclick.net/dc.js
host ga js locally with doubleclick URL for demographics tracking in yoast Google Analytics for WordPress

Then go into Google Analytics and go to the Demographics section under Audience and click to Validate and boom you are done!

There is also this video where the validation doesn’t work, but it worked for me:

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Roger has been building websites since 1996 and had drunk the kool aid when it comes to living and breathing online culture. After spending time at Godaddy selling domain names and hosting he dabbled in telecom selling CDN services for Limelight Networks and Level 3. In 2009 he realized the best way he could help businesses was to start his own focused on building websites, getting traffic to visit, become customers, and then service them more effeciently. He obsesses over content strategy, ad testing, page load speed, online services, support efficiency, and where to go on vacation. He lives in Phoenix, AZ with his beautiful wife, Kate, and two dogs: Bonzai and Zeke. He wants to know about your business and how to help you get more customers and service the ones you have even better. Twitter | Google+ | LinkedIn