Andy Feliciotti

<p>This simple plugin adds Google Analytics into your site using your tracking ID. Additional features include the ability to change the tracking code position, disabling display features, anonymize IP, and excluding roles from tracking. Additionally the plugin works regardless if you’re using a Global site tag measurement ID (gtag.js) or Universal Analytics tracking ID (analytics.js).</p>
<p><strong>Features</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Performance focused with no bloat</li>
<li>Extremely simple to setup</li>
<li>Works with analytics.js or gtag.js measurement/tracking IDs</li>
<li>Regular updates for when GA changes in the future</li>
<li>Only requires your GA tracking ID to work</li>
<li>Option to put the tracking code in the header or footer</li>
<li>Options to disable display features and anonymize IPs</li>
<li>Options to exclude specific roles from GA tracking</li>
<li>Option to use MinimalAnalytics.com’s tracking code (or MinimalAnalytics4 if using gtag.js)</li>
<li>Works with WP-Rocket’s local GA script feature</li>
<li>Never any upsells</li>
</ul>
<p>This plugin uses Google Analytics’ analytics.js or gtag.js tracking code by default. It does not include any built in reporting, to view your site statistics you can visit Google Analytics after installing.</p>


Lightweight Google Analytics

Easily integrate Google Analytics with WordPress using just your tracking ID.

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<p>This Google Analytics for WordPress plugin enables you to track your site using the latest Google Analytics tracking code and allows you to view key Google Analytics stats in your WordPress install.</p>
<p>In addition to a set of general Google Analytics stats, in-depth Page reports and in-depth Post reports allow further segmentation of your analytics data, providing performance details for each post or page from your website.</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>Credits</h4>
<p>This plugin forked from Google Analytics Dashboard for WP<br />
Created by Alin Marcu and forked by Yehuda Hassine</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 acquisition channels</li>
<li>Real-time traffic sources details</li>
</ul>
<h4>Google Analytics Reports</h4>
<p>The Google Analytics reports you need, on your dashboard, in your All Posts and All Pages screens, and on 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>
<p>In addition, you can control who can view specific Google Analytics reports by setting permissions based on user roles.</p>
<h4>Google Analytics Tracking</h4>
<p>Installs the latest Google Analytics tracking code and allows full code customization:</p>
<ul>
<li>Universal Google Analytics (analytics.js) tracking code</li>
<li>Global Site Tag (gtag.js) tracking code</li>
<li>Enhanced link attribution</li>
<li>Remarketing, demographics and interests tracking</li>
<li>Page Speed sampling rate control</li>
<li>User sampling rate control</li>
<li>Cross domain tracking</li>
<li>Exclude user roles from tracking</li>
<li>Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) support for Google Analytics</li>
<li>Ecommerce support for Google Analytics</li>
</ul>
<p>User privacy oriented features:</p>
<ul>
<li>IP address anonymization</li>
<li>option to follow Do Not Track (DNT) sent by browsers</li>
<li>support for user tracking opt-out</li>
</ul>
<p>Google Analytics Dashboard for WP enables you to easily track events like:</p>
<ul>
<li>Downloads</li>
<li>Emails</li>
<li>Outbound links</li>
<li>Affiliate links</li>
<li>Fragment identifiers</li>
<li>Telephone</li>
<li>Page Scrolling Depth</li>
<li>Custom event categories, actions and labels using annotated HTML elements</li>
</ul>
<p>With Google Analytics Dashboard for WP you can use custom dimensions to track:</p>
<ul>
<li>Authors</li>
<li>Publication year</li>
<li>Publication month</li>
<li>Categories</li>
<li>Tags</li>
<li>User engagement</li>
</ul>
<p>Actions and filters are available for further Google Analytics tracking code customization.</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 year, publication month, categories, tags, user type</li>
<li>Exclude user roles from tracking</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>Automatically removes <em>amp/</em> from Google Analytics tracking page URL</li>
<li>Scrolling depth tracking</li>
<li>Custom dimensions tracking</li>
<li>User sampling rate control</li>
<li>Form submit tracking</li>
<li>File downloads tracking</li>
<li>Affiliate links tracking</li>
<li>Hashmarks, outbound links, telephones and e-mails tracking</li>
<li>Custom event categories, actions and labels using annotated HTML elements</li>
</ul>
<h4>Google Analytics Dashboard for WP 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>
<h3>Localization</h3>
<p>You can translate Metrics Query on <a href="https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/metrics-query" rel="nofollow ugc">translate.wordpress.org</a>.</p>


Metrics Query

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Connects Google Analytics with your WordPress site. Displays stats to help you understand your users and site content on a whole new level!

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