The GAinWP Google Analytics Integration for WordPress plugin easily integrates Google Analytics tracking and dashboard reporting into your website in just minutes.
It was created from the excellent Google Analytics Dashboard for WordPress (GADWP) plugin to maintain a simple, direct Google Analytics integration for those concerned about data privacy.
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In addition to a set of general Google Analytics stats, in-depth page reports and in-depth post reports allow further segmentation of your analytics data, providing performance details for each post or page from your website.
The Google Analytics tracking code is fully customizable through options and hooks, allowing advanced data collection like custom dimensions and events.
Google Analytics Real-Time Stats
Google Analytics reports, in real-time, in your dashboard screen:
- Real-time number of visitors
- Real-time acquisition channels
- Real-time traffic sources details
Google Analytics Reports
The Google Analytics reports you need, on your dashboard, in your All Posts and All Pages screens, and on site's frontend:
- Sessions, organic searches, page views, bounce rate analytics stats
- Locations, pages, referrers, keywords, 404 errors analytics stats
- Traffic channels, social networks, traffic mediums, search engines analytics stats
- Device categories, browsers, operating systems, screen resolutions, mobile brands analytics stats
In addition, you can control who can view specific Google Analytics reports by setting permissions based on user roles.
Google Analytics Tracking
Installs the latest Google Analytics tracking code and allows full code customization:
- Universal Google Analytics (analytics.js) tracking code
- Global Site Tag (gtag.js) tracking code
- Enhanced link attribution
- Remarketing, demographics and interests tracking
- Page Speed sampling rate control
- User sampling rate control
- Cross domain tracking
- Exclude user roles from tracking
- Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) support for Google Analytics
- Ecommerce support for Google Analytics
User privacy oriented features:
- IP address anonymization
- option to follow Do Not Track (DNT) sent by browsers
- support for user tracking opt-out
GAinWP enables you to easily track events like:
- Downloads
- Emails
- Outbound links
- Affiliate links
- Fragment identifiers
- Telephone
- Page Scrolling Depth
- Custom event categories, actions and labels using annotated HTML elements
With GAinWP you can use custom dimensions to track:
- Authors
- Publication year
- Publication month
- Categories
- Tags
- User engagement
Actions and filters are available for further Google Analytics tracking code customization.
Google Tag Manager Tracking
As an alternative to Google Analytics tracking code, you can use Google Tag Manager for tracking:
- Google Tag Manager code
- Data Layer variables: authors, publication year, publication month, categories, tags, user type
- Exclude user roles from tracking
- Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) support for Google Tag Manager
Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) features
- Google Tag Manager basic tracking
- Google Analytics basic tracking
- Automatically removes amp/ from Google Analytics tracking page URL
- Scrolling depth tracking
- Custom dimensions tracking
- User sampling rate control
- Form submit tracking
- File downloads tracking
- Affiliate links tracking
- Hashmarks, outbound links, telephones and e-mails tracking
- Custom event categories, actions and labels using annotated HTML elements
GAinWP on Multisite
This plugin is fully compatible with multisite network installs, allowing three setup modes:
- Mode 1: network activated using multiple Google Analytics accounts
- Mode 2: network activated using a single Google Analytics account
- Mode 3: network deactivated using multiple Google Analytics accounts
GAinWP on GitHub
You can submit feature requests or bugs on GAinWP repository.
The Standard Installation enables both tracking and reporting for your site. If you already have tracking you want to keep, see Reporting Only Installation below. If you only want track your site in Google Analytics and not connect to reporting data, see Tracking Only Installation below.