WordPress Multisite Analytics Plugin

Everybody loves Google Analytics. So a great feature of your WordPress MU platform is to allow individual bloggers to be able to simply insert their own Analytics code, so they can track their blogs performance. However, there’s one big downside to this :(

Usually it means that you can only allow your users to track their own stats, while flying blind yourself. Booo! Well, not any more… this neat plugin allows you to simply enter your ‘UA’ code into a new field in Site Admin > Options as well as allowing your users to enter their code in Settings > Google Analytics. And, they will both work together!

Oh frabjous day etc. :) And if that’s not enough to make you go ‘Callooh! Callay!’ – well, we’ve also integrated this into our ‘Pro Sites’ framework- so you can restrict access to the individual stats to paying users only (if you wish). Just visit Network Admin > Pro Sites once it’s installed to set it to free / paid.

google analytics for wordpress mu in action

To install:

Download the plugin file
Unzip the file into a folder on your hard drive
Upload /google-analytics-async/ folder to /wp-content/plugins/ folder on your site
Login to your admin panel for WordPress or Multisite and activate the plugin:
- On regular WordPress installs – visit Plugins and Activate the plugin.
- For WordPress Multisite installs – Activate it blog-by-blog (say if you wanted to make it a Supporter premium plugin), or visit Network Admin -> Plugins and Network Activate the plugin.

Basic Usage:

Go to Network Admin > Settings > Google Analytics and enter your Google Analytics tracking code

Note: Individual sites can access and add their own analytic code by going to Settings>Google Analytics

Google Analytics Network Admin

Google Analytics and Multisite:

Network Activation of Google Analytics provides each site with the ability to use their own Analytics account. Additionally, you can track stats in one of the following ways (screenshot above):

1. Network-Wide Tracking

This is the code you’ll use to see the entirety of your network (as opposed to the main site only).

If you are using a subdomain install and want to also track their activity you’ll want to also check the radio button next to ‘Subdomain tracking‘

2. Admin Pages Tracking

This allows you to track both the front-end and admin side of your WordPress install. By default this is disabled.

3. Page load times Tracking

Google now allows you to track the load times of individual pages on your site. Enable this setting to track this data and view it in your Google Analytics dashboard.