Screws up multi-site analytics

  • kd4ttc

    (@kd4ttc)


    4 years, 10 months ago

    I tried to add a second site, my WordPress site, to my analytics. I have an old site that has run analytics for years. When I tried to add analytics to the WordPress site it picked up the other site and started reported the other site under the Site Kit plug-in. Obviously a problem. I had already gone to google analytics and added a second property.

    The work-around it to get the google JavaScript code and put it into your WordPress site manually.

    It is just stupid for Google to report on the wrong site. I have to go now and see if Google Screed up the analytics on my first site.

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  • Bethany Chobanian Lang

    (@mxbclang)

    4 years, 10 months ago

    @kd4ttc Thanks for getting in touch and I’m sorry to hear that you’ve had this trouble.

    I’d be happy to help you disentangle things here. If you’d like, can you please share your Site Health information privately via this form?

    Thread Starter kd4ttc

    (@kd4ttc)

    4 years, 10 months ago

    Thanks for the offer. I just disabled the Google Site Kit plug-in, then deleted it. I grabbed the “Header Footer Code Manager” by 99robots plug-in and pasted in the Google Analytics JavaScript snippet. Quick and easy. Tested it by clicking on links and google analytics detected my activity when I went to the analytics web page.

    By the way, the “Header Footer Code Manager” is a simple, straight forward tool that will keep the add on’s in place across updates of WordPress.

    Thanks, again for your offer. If you have an in with Google, they shouldn’t be assuming that the first link they come across in a person’s list of properties in the only one. They should have a selection option of the Property/View to link the correct analytics to the correct site.

    I think someone managing multiple sites will be better off with manual insertion of a code snippet. Google has a clumsy tool.

    • This reply was modified 4 years, 10 months ago by kd4ttc.
    Bethany Chobanian Lang

    (@mxbclang)

    4 years, 10 months ago

    Thanks for these details, @kd4ttc.

    If you have an in with Google, they shouldn’t be assuming that the first link they come across in a person’s list of properties in the only one. They should have a selection option of the Property/View to link the correct analytics to the correct site.

    I work directly with our engineering team, so I definitely want to make sure we address this in a future release. Just to clarify for my testing, can you tell me what the GA property URLs are for the two sites that you set up?

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