Should Google Analytics go in the head or bottom of an HTML page?

Question

Google advises putting the google analytics script right before closing the .

However, I would prefer to combine it with the rest my javascript

Answer 1

From Google Analytics setup instructions:

Paste your snippet (unaltered, in it’s entirety) into every web page that you want to track. Paste it immediately before the closing tag.

If your website uses templates to generate pages, enter it just before the closing tag in the file that contains the section.