Trying to get a site meter to the blog

I wanted to get Google Analytics up and running, and since Blogger is a Google service that should be a walk in the park, right? Wrong. It seems the new blogger XML templates are incompatible with the tracking code for Google Analytics. After spending a couple of hours trying to come up with a solution I took the easy way out and went with statcounter instead. Happy so far. At least I now can track page views.