jakubkanna

<p>Headless GA4 adds a compact Google Analytics 4 widget to the main WordPress dashboard.</p>
<p>It is designed for sites where:</p>
<ul>
<li>the frontend is not rendered by WordPress</li>
<li>GA4 tracking already happens on the frontend</li>
<li>WordPress only needs to read and display GA4 reporting data for admins</li>
</ul>
<p>The plugin uses the Google Analytics Data API and a Google service account. It does not inject frontend tracking code.</p>
<p>Features:</p>
<ul>
<li>settings page for GA4 configuration</li>
<li>dashboard widget with core traffic metrics</li>
<li>last 7 days trend chart</li>
<li>top pages and top traffic sources</li>
<li>transient caching</li>
<li>manual refresh action</li>
</ul>
<h3>Privacy</h3>
<p>Headless GA4 does not track visitors or inject analytics scripts.</p>
<p>The plugin only sends server-side requests to Google when an administrator configures a GA4 property and opens the dashboard or tests the connection. Those requests use the service account credentials you provide in the plugin settings.</p>
<h3>External services</h3>
<p>This plugin connects to Google services to authenticate requests and fetch Google Analytics 4 report data. These requests are only made after an administrator configures the plugin and then opens the dashboard widget, refreshes the data, or uses the Test connection button.</p>
<h4>Google OAuth token service (`oauth2.googleapis.com`)</h4>
<p>Used to exchange the configured Google service account credentials for a short-lived access token.</p>
<p>Data sent: a signed JWT assertion containing the service account email, requested scope, token endpoint, issued-at time, and expiration time.</p>
<p>Terms of service: https://developers.google.com/terms<br />
Privacy policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy</p>
<h4>Google Analytics Data API (`analyticsdata.googleapis.com`)</h4>
<p>Used to request GA4 report data for the configured GA4 property.</p>
<p>Data sent: the GA4 property ID, report request parameters such as date ranges, dimensions, metrics, and limits, plus the OAuth access token in the request headers.</p>
<p>Terms of service: https://developers.google.com/terms<br />
Privacy policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy</p>


Headless GA4

Display lightweight GA4 traffic data in the WordPress dashboard for headless frontends.

Alin Marcu

<p>Analytics Insights is a free WordPress plugin that enables site tracking using the latest Google Analytics 4 tracking code. It allows you to view key Google Analytics stats in your WordPress Dashboard.</p>
<h4>Google Analytics Reports, Stats and Insights</h4>
<p>Analytics Insights displays the reports you need on your dashboard and on the site’s frontend. Audience, acquisition, behavior, engagement and real-time stats are all presented as charts within a dedicated dashboard widget.</p>
<p>In addition to a set of general Google Analytics stats, insights like in-depth Page reports and in-depth Post reports are available.</p>
<p>The Google Analytics tracking code is fully customizable through options and hooks, allowing advanced data collection like custom dimensions and events.</p>
<h4>Google Analytics Real-Time Stats</h4>
<p>Google Analytics reports, in real-time, in your dashboard screen:</p>
<ul>
<li>Real-time number of visitors </li>
<li>Real-time number of visitors per page</li>
<li>Real-time device category </li>
</ul>
<h4>Google Analytics Reports and Insights</h4>
<p>The Google Analytics insights and reports you need on your dashboard and on the site’s frontend:</p>
<ul>
<li>Sessions, organic searches, page views, bounce rate analytics stats</li>
<li>Locations, pages, referrers, keywords, 404 errors analytics stats</li>
<li>Traffic channels, social networks, traffic mediums, search engines analytics stats</li>
<li>Device categories, browsers, operating systems, screen resolutions, mobile brands analytics stats</li>
</ul>
<h4>Google Analytics Tracking</h4>
<p>Installs the latest Google Analytics tracking code and allows full code customization:</p>
<ul>
<li>Google Analytics 4 tracking code</li>
<li>Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) support for Google Analytics</li>
<li>Cross domain tracking</li>
<li>Ecommerce support for Google Analytics</li>
<li>User privacy oriented features and much more</li>
</ul>
<p>With Analytics Insights you can easily track events like downloads, page scrolling depth, outbound links, emails. In addition, you can track custom event categories, actions, and labels using annotated HTML elements.</p>
<p>Custom dimensions tracking of authors, publication date, categories, tags is also possible with Analytics Insights.</p>
<h4>Google Tag Manager Tracking</h4>
<p>As an alternative to Google Analytics tracking code, you can use Google Tag Manager for tracking:</p>
<ul>
<li>Google Tag Manager code</li>
<li>Data Layer variables: authors, publication date, categories, tags, user type</li>
<li>Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) support for Google Tag Manager</li>
</ul>
<h4>Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) features</h4>
<ul>
<li>Google Tag Manager basic tracking</li>
<li>Google Analytics basic tracking </li>
<li>Events tracking, custom dimensions tracking, annotated HTML elements tracking</li>
</ul>
<h4>Analytics Insights on Multisite</h4>
<p>This plugin is fully compatible with multisite network installs, allowing three setup modes:</p>
<ul>
<li>Mode 1: network activated using multiple Google Analytics accounts</li>
<li>Mode 2: network activated using a single Google Analytics account</li>
<li>Mode 3: network deactivated using multiple Google Analytics accounts</li>
</ul>


Analytics Insights – Google Analytics Dashboard for WordPress

This is the successor of the beloved Google Analytics Dashboard for WordPress (GADWP) plugin. Simple and great, just like all plugins should be.

Simple and great!


This plugin has everything to be good, it's lightweight, it allows you to display statistics for customers, however, it has a problem that annoys me…. Almost every week I have to give authorization to access the Google account to display the statistics.I've tried other similar plugins and this error doesn't happen, so it's a point to improve for the plugin to be one of the best.


Requires constant authorization


Thank you! Thank you! Many thanks for picking up this plugin after the previous developer sold it out to a horrible company. I've been using this plugin on several sites without any problems for some time.


Many thanks!

A full-featured and entirely free Google Analytics Dashboard plugin for WordPress. Displays stats to help you to better understand your site content.

Headless GA4 vs Analytics Insights – Google Analytics Dashboard for WordPress