Handle Duplicate Data

  • Resolved Ali Basheer

    (@alibasheer)


    6 years, 10 months ago

    Hi!

    Thank you so much for this integration, it is really useful, and have great potential.
    I installed the plugin and set my GA, tested, and it worked out seamlessly.

    Did you manage to handle this scenario?

    Now the server is sending the hits to Google server directly. At the same time I have the GA installed in the frontend, so it will also send the hits, and thus we will have duplication of hits (each hit recorded twice).

    How to fix it? or what is your plan to fix?

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  • Plugin Author Nikel

    (@nikelschubert)

    6 years, 10 months ago

    Hi,
    thanks a lot for your Feedback. I am happy that you like my plugin.
    Regarding your question:

    The deduplication of hits/data is not really possible, as it is not really possible, in a fail safe way, to detect if the frontend GA has fired or not.

    The recommandation is to set up another property or another view. So you should not mix backend tracking data with frontend tracking data.

    If you have different properties or views, you can easily compare your visit tracked by frontend vs. tracked by backend and see what kind of traffic your are missing with frontend tracking.
    If you want to have those numbers in one report i recommend google datastudio.

    If you decide for a view you can filter the backend traffic with a view filter with the field “data source” = wp-backend-tracking.
    This is how you can recognize the hits from this plugin.

    I hope I could help.

    Regards
    Nikel

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