Site Kit is the official WordPress plugin from Google for insights about how people find and use your site. Site Kit is the one-stop solution to deploy, manage, and get insights from critical Google tools to make the site successful on the web. It provides authoritative, up-to-date insights from multiple Google products directly on the WordPress dashboard for easy access, all for free. Show
Bringing the best of Google tools to WordPressSite Kit includes powerful features that make using these Google products seamless and flexible:
Supported Google toolsSite Kit shows key metrics and insights from different Google products:
InstallationNote: Make sure that your website is live. If your website isn’t live yet, Site Kit can’t show you any data. Installation from within WordPress
Manual installation
After activation
FAQFor more information, visit the official Site Kit website. Is Site Kit free?The Site Kit plugin is free and open source, and will remain so. Individual Google products included in Site Kit are subject to standard terms and fees (if any) for those products. What are the minimum requirements for Site Kit?In order to successfully install and use Site Kit, your site must meet the following requirements:
Why is my dashboard showing “gathering data” and none of my service data?It can take a few days after connecting Site Kit to a Google service for data to begin to display in your dashboard. The “gathering data” message typically appears when you’ve recently set up a Google service (i.e. just created a new Analytics account) and/or your site is new, and data is not yet available for display. If you are still seeing this message after a few days, feel free to get in touch with us on the support forum. Why aren’t any ads appearing on my site after I connected AdSense?If you’re new to AdSense when you connect via Site Kit, your new AdSense account and your site will need to be manually reviewed and approved for ads by the AdSense team. Ads will not display until your account and site have been approved. Check out this guide for more information about the approval process and timeline. You can check your approval status in Site Kit by going to Settings > Connected Services > AdSense and clicking Check your site status. This link will direct you to AdSense. If you see “Ready,” your account and site have been approved and should be displaying ads. If you see “Getting ready…,” your account and site are still under review and your site will not display ads until they have been approved. If Site Kit has successfully added the AdSense snippet to your site and your account and site have been approved, but your site is still not showing ads, contact the AdSense Help Center for assistance. You can find more information on how Site Kit works with AdSense in our Managing AdSense guide. Is Site Kit GDPR compliant?When using Site Kit, site owners are responsible for managing notice and consent requirements – including GDPR requirements – as described in Google’s Terms of Service. By default, Site Kit does anonymize IP addresses upon activation of the Google Analytics module. In addition, Site Kit provides a mechanism in the form of a simple API for cookie consent plugins to integrate with Site Kit and prevent Site Kit’s Google service snippets from being rendered on a page if the user has not granted consent. More information about how this API works is available in this GitHub issue. Where can I get additional support?Please create a new topic on our WordPress.org support forum. Be sure to follow the support forum guidelines when posting. Reviews
rwperkinsjr December 9, 2022 Tried and tried to get this to work to no avail. It tells me my REST API can't be reached even though all other plugins are working and there are no issues under Site Heath. Other Google Analytics plugins are working perfectly. FailureTakis_Athens December 1, 2022 1 reply Although I admire the services of Google and how smoothly they work, the whole Google Analytics > WP situation is an utter failure and the mothership needs to consider seriously about something new, and better. I have used this plugin in the past, sometimes worked, and some did not. On this last site I did, the plugin was straight-up refusing to connect with my Analytics account. Connection error. I tried the second suggested plugin by Google, MonsterInsight, which really slowed down my admin panel, on a site hosted on Virtuozzo cloud/environment, with CDN, Redis, and all the (speed) goodies. I had crazy WP panel speeds before I make the mistake to try Google's suggestions. All this, because I was too lazy to add the analytics script on the <head> area through PHP. In any case, back to "Site Kit", MonsterInsight connected instantly, so it wasn't some server-side problem on my end. Although I deleted it and I rolled over to a backup to clean my site of all this (unnecessary to me) code. Seems like a Site Kit problem. I am not willing to troubleshoot it, I just wanted to say my piece. The moral of the story, learn to edit the WP code yourself and add the (small) analytics script. It's very easy to learn, and you will save yourself a lot of headaches. If you just wanna track visits and nothing more, don't go down this rabbit hole. Not ready for prime timejlc1964 December 1, 2022 3 replies This program really offers nothing that you cannot find on the Google Analytics site. It is just another bloated program that slows my site down when tested, before and after, on tools.pingdom.com. It also does not work with WP Total Cache installed and will throw the error "Data error in Analytics No route was found matching the URL and request method." Best pluginmurtazanaqvi November 28, 2022 1 reply Very good Does not work.mostafasaad November 28, 2022 1 reply Does not work.Refuses to complete the setup. It's funny how Google's own stuff are almost always one of the worst options. Fix your stuff, this is terrible GreatSolomon November 24, 2022 1 reply Great and insightful. Contributors & Developers“Site Kit by Google – Analytics, Search Console, AdSense, Speed” has been translated into 22 locales. Thank you to the translators for their contributions. |