Title: Calling Google?
Last modified: April 20, 2020

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# Calling Google?

 *  Resolved [sdawales](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sdawales/)
 * (@sdawales)
 * [6 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/calling-google/)
 * Hi there,
 * I’ve been using your plugin for a while now and it is fantastic. It just works!
   Thank you. Recently, I have been trying to make some enhancements for speed and
   pages size, etc. When running a test on webpagetest.org, in the waterfall I have
   a call to google at Host: [http://www.google-analytics.com](http://www.google-analytics.com).
   I’m really confused because I don’t know of having any analytics code besides
   CAOS. Is this call expected behavior when using CAOS? Thanks in advance.
 * The page I need help with: _[[log in](https://login.wordpress.org/?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwordpress.org%2Fsupport%2Ftopic%2Fcalling-google%2F%3Foutput_format%3Dmd&locale=en_US)
   to see the link]_

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 *  Plugin Author [Daan van den Bergh](https://wordpress.org/support/users/daanvandenbergh/)
 * (@daanvandenbergh)
 * [6 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/calling-google/#post-12701187)
 * Hi [@sdawales](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sdawales/),
 * Whether it is expected behavior depends on the fact if you’re using Stealth Mode
   or not.
 * – If you’re using Stealth Mode, CAOS sends all requests to google-analytics.com
   through your server. So it shouldn’t show up in your browsers requests list i.
   e. waterfall.
    – If you’re not using Stealth Mode, it’s perfectly normal that
   1 request (or multiple, depending on the usage of plugins, such as Enhanced Commerce
   and Enhanced Link Attribution) are sent to google-analytics.com. Because the 
   data about your visitor has to arrive in your Google Analytics Dashboard somehow.
   🙂
 * Hope this helps.
 *  Thread Starter [sdawales](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sdawales/)
 * (@sdawales)
 * [6 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/calling-google/#post-12701284)
 * I see. So if I enable stealth mode in the basic plugin, does that eliminate the
   call or do I need to purchase the enhanced plugin? Thank you.
 *  [Philipp](https://wordpress.org/support/users/morpheus200k/)
 * (@morpheus200k)
 * [6 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/calling-google/#post-12701296)
 * Why do I still get notification about this topic? It is more than annoying – 
   I have already unsubscribed from these postings!!!!!
 *  Plugin Author [Daan van den Bergh](https://wordpress.org/support/users/daanvandenbergh/)
 * (@daanvandenbergh)
 * [6 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/calling-google/#post-12701312)
 * [@morpheus200k](https://wordpress.org/support/users/morpheus200k/) I’m pretty
   sure you must’ve subscribed to the entire CAOS support forum, not just the support
   ticket you posted. Try scrolling to the top of [this page](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/host-analyticsjs-local/)
   and click ‘unsubsribe from this plugin’.
 *  [Philipp](https://wordpress.org/support/users/morpheus200k/)
 * (@morpheus200k)
 * [6 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/calling-google/#post-12701315)
 * Thanks for that 🙂 Done.
 *  [Philipp](https://wordpress.org/support/users/morpheus200k/)
 * (@morpheus200k)
 * [6 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/calling-google/#post-12701321)
 * Well it hadn’t been subscribed before … I can subscribe but not unsubscribe. 
   Well let’s see what happens.
 *  Plugin Author [Daan van den Bergh](https://wordpress.org/support/users/daanvandenbergh/)
 * (@daanvandenbergh)
 * [6 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/calling-google/#post-12701328)
 * [@sdawales](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sdawales/),
 * Stealth Mode Lite and Super Stealth both eliminate the call to google-analytics.
   com.
 * The difference between Stealth Mode Lite and Super Stealth is the amount of data
   it uncovers.
 * At this point your Google Analytics data is incomplete, by ~30%. Stealth Mode
   Lite bypasses some (less agressive) Ad Blockers and reduces this number by ~10%.
   Super Stealth bypasses all Ad Blockers, completing your Google Analytics.
 * [@morpheus200k](https://wordpress.org/support/users/morpheus200k/), no problem!
 *  Thread Starter [sdawales](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sdawales/)
 * (@sdawales)
 * [6 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/calling-google/#post-12702465)
 * Thanks Daan. I did enable stealth and flushed my cache but it’s still there. 
   I’ll have to have a play with it. Regarding the Super Stealth plugin, I am open
   to support the plugins that work and I use every day. How much weight does it
   add to a page? No compatibility issues with the likes of autoptimize? Thanks 
   in advance.
 *  Plugin Author [Daan van den Bergh](https://wordpress.org/support/users/daanvandenbergh/)
 * (@daanvandenbergh)
 * [6 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/calling-google/#post-12702510)
 * Could you copy the exact URL of the request? Because it might have something 
   to do with your settings in Google Analytics.
 * Did you also update analytics.js manually after enabling Stealth Mode?
 * Regarding your questions: Super Stealth doesn’t add any weight to your pages,
   it uses the same analytics.js file generated by CAOS. It just delivers it more
   intelligently, which allows it to bypass ad blockers. And no, no compatibility
   issues that I know off. It should work with all plugins that CAOS works with.
 *  Thread Starter [sdawales](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sdawales/)
 * (@sdawales)
 * [6 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/calling-google/#post-12702550)
 * Yes I did save and then update analytics.js. The exact url called is; Thanks.
 * [https://www.google-analytics.com/collect?v=1&_v=j81&a=1697960580&t=pageview&_s=1&dl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.pressertech.com%2F&ul=en-us&de=UTF-8&dt=Mercedes%20Tuning%20%E2%80%93%20Mercedes%20Tuners%20%E2%80%93%20Chiptuning%20Mercedes%20%E2%80%93%20Mercedes%20Benz%20Tuning%20-%20Pressertech%20Performance&sd=24-bit&sr=1920×1200&vp=1009×652&je=0&_u=YEBAAAAB~&cid=2089801725.1587395706&tid=UA-115495923-1&_gid=1542442873.1587395706&z=605395967](https://www.google-analytics.com/collect?v=1&_v=j81&a=1697960580&t=pageview&_s=1&dl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.pressertech.com%2F&ul=en-us&de=UTF-8&dt=Mercedes%20Tuning%20%E2%80%93%20Mercedes%20Tuners%20%E2%80%93%20Chiptuning%20Mercedes%20%E2%80%93%20Mercedes%20Benz%20Tuning%20-%20Pressertech%20Performance&sd=24-bit&sr=1920×1200&vp=1009×652&je=0&_u=YEBAAAAB~&cid=2089801725.1587395706&tid=UA-115495923-1&_gid=1542442873.1587395706&z=605395967)
 *  Plugin Author [Daan van den Bergh](https://wordpress.org/support/users/daanvandenbergh/)
 * (@daanvandenbergh)
 * [6 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/calling-google/#post-12702591)
 * Ah, I see you’re using a CDN. The version of analytics.js that I see on there,
   doesn’t have stealth mode enabled yet.
 * Maybe flush your CDN cache?
 *  Thread Starter [sdawales](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sdawales/)
 * (@sdawales)
 * [6 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/calling-google/#post-12702623)
 * Got it. Unfortunately, installing the super stealth upgrade just gave me a fatal
   error so I can’t do a thing at the moment. Site is 100% down 🙁
 *  Plugin Author [Daan van den Bergh](https://wordpress.org/support/users/daanvandenbergh/)
 * (@daanvandenbergh)
 * [6 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/calling-google/#post-12702628)
 * Ouch. Please contact me using the contact form at [https://woosh.dev](https://woosh.dev).
   I’ll help you out immediately.
 *  [Philipp](https://wordpress.org/support/users/morpheus200k/)
 * (@morpheus200k)
 * [6 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/calling-google/#post-12702652)
 * Daan, I am sorry to bother you but I have unsubscribed from all mailings, have
   not subscribed to the plugin nor any other subscriptions made. Can you please
   help me? I receive all posts and questions every day – it is a bit confusing 
   why I am still receiving all these messages although I haven’t subscribed to 
   any mailings / plugins / other stuff.
 * Is there an email address of this page here to ask them to help in case you have
   no clue?
 * Thanks and sorry for that.
 * By the way: your plugin is great and I have installed it on my website [https://b-ceed.de](https://b-ceed.de)
   It is simply great!
 *  Plugin Author [Daan van den Bergh](https://wordpress.org/support/users/daanvandenbergh/)
 * (@daanvandenbergh)
 * [6 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/calling-google/#post-12702680)
 * Hi Philipp,
 * I’m a simple plugin developer 🙂 and this is a support forum for CAOS. I’m not
   a moderator of WordPress.org nor do I have access to mailing and/or subscription
   lists, etc.
 * I honestly don’t know how to help you with this. Sorry. You could try contacting
   WordPress moderators through Slack/Twitter, or something?

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