Google Analytics for multisite (synchronous)

publicradio
(@publicradio)

13 years, 1 month ago

Hello,

I installed Google Analyticator on my multisite wordpress and then network activated it. It seems to only be working for the main parent site, even though I filled out the settings for each site.

Anyway, when I go to my top referrers, it’s treating the other subdomains as referring sites. This is not how I want it. I just want google analytics to treat the whole network as one site.

Is there a better plugin? I see a multisite plugin that is asynchronous, so that individual blog admins can set up their own Google Analytics. This is obviously not what I need.

Thanks for your help.

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Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)
(@ipstenu)

🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist

13 years, 1 month ago

Hm. Mine seems to track *.domain.com all as one site.

I’m pretty sure that can be setup on Google’s side, actually. There’s a way you have to tell it ‘Subdomains == all one!’

Thread Starter publicradio
(@publicradio)

13 years, 1 month ago

OK — and you’re using analyticator? Do I only need this activated for the main site or does it need to be network activated?

Tim Moore
(@tmoorewp)

13 years, 1 month ago

I’ve found that if I want to track stuff across all MultiSite sites, the best way to do it is manually add code to the theme footer, either in the theme file or via wp_footer().

Here’s the code that you may need in order to track all your sites:

[Code moderated as per the Forum Rules. Please use the pastebin]

I found this works well.

Thread Starter publicradio
(@publicradio)

13 years, 1 month ago

OK. I like analyticator because I can see stats in my dashboard. If I can’t find a plugin-based solution I’ll consider just hard coding it in. Thanks.

Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)
(@ipstenu)

🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist

13 years, 1 month ago

I activated it per-site and it works fine. ANd yes, I use analyticator 🙂

Andrea Rennick
(@andrea_r)

13 years, 1 month ago

This:

http://wpmututorials.com/plugins/how-to-hook-into-the-footer/

that;s how you get google analytics code to show up on all sites.

Thread Starter publicradio
(@publicradio)

13 years, 1 month ago

OK, let me back up for one minute…

Ipstenu, you said you activated analyticator per-site and it worked fine. You also said you changed some setting in analytics to get it to work with multisite.

The main issue I’m having is that it’s treating my other subdomains as referring sites. Is this not the case for you? And if it isn’t, could you tell me what setting you changed in analytics?

Thanks so much.

Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)
(@ipstenu)

🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist

13 years, 1 month ago

I set something up in GOOGLE to tell it ‘treat all my subdomains as one site.’ At one point in time I really clearly remember that I did that. What I can’t remember is HOW I did that!

But I remember clearly that there is a change you have to make with Google to tell it ‘No, foobar.domain.com and shazbot.domain.com are all domain.com, stop it!’

It may be the filters.

http://www.google.com/support/googleanalytics/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=55524

abhishekcheriangeorge
(@abhishekcheriangeorge)

13 years, 1 month ago

You guys tried this?

http://www.darturonline.se/ga_mu_async.html

Thread Starter publicradio
(@publicradio)

13 years ago

Ah, I don’t think I saw this one. I saw a different asynchronous one, but this one says that the super admin can see data for the whole network, which is what I want. I’ll definately give it a shot. Thanks!