Title: Plugin stops tracking search engine hits Last modified: February 13, 2019 --- # Plugin stops tracking search engine hits * [marianhaertel](https://wordpress.org/support/users/marianhaertel/) * (@marianhaertel) * [7 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-stops-tracking-search-engine-hits/) * Hello, * the plugin suddenly stopped tracking search engine hits. Exactly the evening of the las day of January. As the site still is listed in Google (and I also wouldn’t know why not), the issue must be somewhere with the plugin, but I cannot figure where 😉 * Please help. * – Marian * The page I need help with: _[[log in](https://login.wordpress.org/?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwordpress.org%2Fsupport%2Ftopic%2Fplugin-stops-tracking-search-engine-hits%2F%3Foutput_format%3Dmd&locale=en_US) to see the link]_ Viewing 8 replies - 1 through 8 (of 8 total) * [Ward Graham](https://wordpress.org/support/users/eagrayhamgmailcom/) * (@eagrayhamgmailcom) * [7 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-stops-tracking-search-engine-hits/#post-11265314) * I opened a new issue on github. this has been an issue for a while now and not getting any love. This is an exceptional plugin from some exceptionally talented programmers. TY! [https://github.com/wp-statistics/wp-statistics/issues/235](https://github.com/wp-statistics/wp-statistics/issues/235) * [tomdkat](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tomdkat/) * (@tomdkat) * [7 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-stops-tracking-search-engine-hits/#post-11293810) * I’m experiencing this issue as well. In Wordfence, I can see visitors coming to our site from Google but WP Statistics never shows any search engines as referring sites. Weird. * Peace… * [st3phan76](https://wordpress.org/support/users/st3phan5/) * (@st3phan5) * [7 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-stops-tracking-search-engine-hits/#post-11349971) * I had the same issue. Not giving up playing with my firewall an the settings of this plugin, I removed some bots from the robot-list under menu ‘exceptions’.“ Et voilá” … search engine hits came back to my display in stats … The bots I removed are called googlebot, bingbot and so on. Just the search engines you need/have aktivated to display. Don’t forget to disable the update of this list. * good luck! - This reply was modified 7 years, 2 months ago by [st3phan76](https://wordpress.org/support/users/st3phan5/). * [tomdkat](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tomdkat/) * (@tomdkat) * [7 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-stops-tracking-search-engine-hits/#post-11404301) * [@st3phan5](https://wordpress.org/support/users/st3phan5/) : Thanks for the information!!!! I just made some adjustments and I’ll see if I start seeing search engine stats. * Thanks again! * Peace… * [Ward Graham](https://wordpress.org/support/users/eagrayhamgmailcom/) * (@eagrayhamgmailcom) * [7 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-stops-tracking-search-engine-hits/#post-11468070) * still no search hits recorded. my ticket on github was closed with the comment below. I am also using WassUP and seeing the search hits * “Search Engine Referrals and Words are highly dependent on the search engines providing the information to us. Unfortunately, we can’t do anything about it; we report everything we receive.” * from WassUp 2019-04-25 14:13:47 Referrer: [https://www.google.com/](https://www.google.com/) Hostname: 2600:1017:b126:a144:0:48:1638:101 SEARCH ENGINE: Google (page: 1)KEYWORDS:( not provided) us OS: Android 6 BROWSER: Chrome 73 Mobile * [tomdkat](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tomdkat/) * (@tomdkat) * [7 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-stops-tracking-search-engine-hits/#post-11470484) * I’m in the same boat as Ward Graham. I made the changes suggested by st3phan5 and no search hits are being recorded. 🙁 * [Ward Graham](https://wordpress.org/support/users/eagrayhamgmailcom/) * (@eagrayhamgmailcom) * [7 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-stops-tracking-search-engine-hits/#post-11471746) * I see what is happening. the hit is being recorded as a visitor and not as referred from search. Also in the DB the referred column is being populated with the local site URL that I suspect is perhaps from a stale variable or other. the search table has zero entries. hope this helps * [tomdkat](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tomdkat/) * (@tomdkat) * [7 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-stops-tracking-search-engine-hits/#post-11473557) * Wow, that’s great information! How did you figure that out? I’ll have to check my sites to see if I can see the same pattern. * Thanks! * Peace… Viewing 8 replies - 1 through 8 (of 8 total) The topic ‘Plugin stops tracking search engine hits’ is closed to new replies. * ![](https://ps.w.org/wp-statistics/assets/icon.svg?rev=3081064) * [WP Statistics – Simple, privacy-friendly Google Analytics alternative](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-statistics/) * [Frequently Asked Questions](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-statistics/#faq) * [Support Threads](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wp-statistics/) * [Active Topics](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wp-statistics/active/) * [Unresolved Topics](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wp-statistics/unresolved/) * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wp-statistics/reviews/) ## Tags * [Stats](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/stats/) * 8 replies * 4 participants * Last reply from: [tomdkat](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tomdkat/) * Last activity: [7 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-stops-tracking-search-engine-hits/#post-11473557) * Status: not resolved