Kudos for this!! it's interesting that still there's meta, probably leftover <me...

artursapek · on Dec 8, 2015

That's for Google's webmaster tools, which is another service Google offers (although in this case, you get to peer into their data)

veeti · on Dec 8, 2015

That is for webmaster tools, not analytics.

stanleydrew · on Dec 8, 2015

Surprised that they don't use the DNS verification option. Bloating your HTML for every request is unnecessary.

stonedge · on Dec 8, 2015

This could just be for Google Webmasters which gives them information on their search presence.

chainsaw10 · on Dec 8, 2015

IIRC that meta tag is also used for verification for Google Webmaster Tools