Title: Avoid it! Please read why. Last modified: November 23, 2019 --- # Avoid it! Please read why. * [designserve](https://wordpress.org/support/users/designserve/) * (@designserve) * [6 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/avoid-it-please-read-why/) * It installed on my multisite multiblog (only a few sites) and I activated it network-wide. A message informed me that it is not multisite compatible so I should deactivate, and activate individually on sub-sites. Ok, good message. I duly did that and activated on a sub-site. The admin email address on the sub- site is not my usual Google account, and therefore it would not authenticate. I could probably find a way around that but I decided this was getting too complicated because I have different admin addresses on each sub-site. I decided to uninstall. I deactivated on the subsite and then went to my main site (refreshing the plugins page of course). I then pressed delete to remove it. * Next, having waited ten minutes for it to remove itself and let me know, all of my sites went down. Not only my WordPress site but all sites on my server! After a minute of panic I connected by ftp and deleted the plugin. Next I went to my server’s interface (it is a 6Gb 6 core VPS) via the hosting account. All memory and CPU was at maximum. My resort was to restart the server. As the plugin had been deleted everything now worked. This could have been a disaster if I hadn’t realised the server was maxing out. * Usually, I check out every plugin thoroughly. Being slightly lazy today and very trusting of Google I didn’t check it out, and I didn’t read enough reviews. * I can’t say whether the plugin is good when it is working. However, every plugin should uninstall easily and efficiently. This is a very poor show from google. Next, I will have to check out what it might have left in my database. I’m very unhappy about it and won’t make the mistake of not checking out a plugin thoroughly again. * I hope my review helps someone to check it out well, avoid it or recover from a disaster scenario. Viewing 2 replies - 1 through 2 (of 2 total) * Plugin Support [James Osborne](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jamesosborne/) * (@jamesosborne) * [6 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/avoid-it-please-read-why/#post-12180652) * [@designserve](https://wordpress.org/support/users/designserve/) Sorry to hear of the problems you’ve encountered. We are working hard and making significant improvements to the plugin, so all feedback is appreciated. * In relation to setup and authentication a Google account (with access to the relevant website property) is required to proceed with installation, it uses Google API’s to connect to the various services. * With regards the uninstall issue you encountered we have just released an update( version 1.1.1) which addressed that problem. * Hopefully you can revisit the plugin further down the line. * Plugin Support [James Osborne](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jamesosborne/) * (@jamesosborne) * [6 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/avoid-it-please-read-why/#post-12639864) * [@designserve](https://wordpress.org/support/users/designserve/) Just to let you know we’ve made improvements to the plugin since its early releases, whereby you’ve provided us with valuable feedback. * It would be great to hear your opinion on the latest version of the plugin, and whether you’re able to use Site Kit as expected. Viewing 2 replies - 1 through 2 (of 2 total) The topic ‘Avoid it! Please read why.’ is closed to new replies. * ![](https://ps.w.org/google-site-kit/assets/icon-256x256.png?rev=3141863) * [Site Kit by Google - Analytics, Search Console, AdSense, Speed](https://wordpress.org/plugins/google-site-kit/) * [Frequently Asked Questions](https://wordpress.org/plugins/google-site-kit/#faq) * [Support Threads](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/google-site-kit/) * [Active Topics](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/google-site-kit/active/) * [Unresolved Topics](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/google-site-kit/unresolved/) * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/google-site-kit/reviews/) * 2 replies * 1 participant * Last reply from: [James Osborne](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jamesosborne/) * Last activity: [6 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/avoid-it-please-read-why/#post-12639864)