Title: Analytics problem?
Last modified: September 26, 2019

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# Analytics problem?

 *  Resolved [politicske](https://wordpress.org/support/users/politicske/)
 * (@politicske)
 * [6 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/analytics-problem-3/)
 * Hi Sir. I activated stealth mode yesterday and now I am getting som strange traffic
   names in the technology tab of google analytics dashboard by exametrics. It shows
   much of my traffic (like over 60%) coming from “WordPress”. Chrome is usually
   the biggest source of my traffic, but now it is second with like less than 10%
   of traffic. I looked at yesterday’s stats and today’s so far and still, the traffic
   shows “WordPress”. Is this normal?
    Edit: Also, apart from that, most of the 
   traffic is attributed to desktop while mobile is usually my biggest source of
   traffic [http://prntscr.com/pb4xkw](http://prntscr.com/pb4xkw).

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 *  Plugin Author [Daan van den Bergh](https://wordpress.org/support/users/daanvandenbergh/)
 * (@daanvandenbergh)
 * [6 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/analytics-problem-3/#post-11970288)
 * Hi [@politicske](https://wordpress.org/support/users/politicske/),
 * Hmmm, curious. I’ll look into this and get back to you ASAP! But what do you 
   mean with Chrome being the biggest source of traffic? A browser name should never
   be mentioned as a source of traffic, it could be Google, another search engine,
   WordPress or another social media platform, etc. But never Chrome…?
 *  Thread Starter [politicske](https://wordpress.org/support/users/politicske/)
 * (@politicske)
 * [6 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/analytics-problem-3/#post-11970312)
 * What I mean is most of my site uisers use chrome. Over 60% of them. I went into
   google analytics themselves and have found the WordPress traffic is being attributed
   to WordPress 5.2.3.
 *  Plugin Author [Daan van den Bergh](https://wordpress.org/support/users/daanvandenbergh/)
 * (@daanvandenbergh)
 * [6 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/analytics-problem-3/#post-11970318)
 * Oh, well that might make sense. And it could be kind of a bug, I guess.
 * In Stealth Mode we’re sending traffic through your server and to Google Analytics–
   through the backdoor, so to speak.
 * This might modify the Platform a user is using, since it’s not Chrome sending
   the traffic to Google, but in essence WordPress.
 * Could you send me the path in Google Analyitcs where I can find this info?
 *  Thread Starter [politicske](https://wordpress.org/support/users/politicske/)
 * (@politicske)
 * [6 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/analytics-problem-3/#post-11970322)
 * Check under Audience>Technology then Browser and OS.
 *  Plugin Author [Daan van den Bergh](https://wordpress.org/support/users/daanvandenbergh/)
 * (@daanvandenbergh)
 * [6 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/analytics-problem-3/#post-11970330)
 * I’m seeing the same thing. So it’s a verified bug. Thanks for reporting it!
 *  Thread Starter [politicske](https://wordpress.org/support/users/politicske/)
 * (@politicske)
 * [6 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/analytics-problem-3/#post-11970342)
 * Wow! Good to know. I was scared for a moment. I will wait for the fix.
 *  [svariable](https://wordpress.org/support/users/svariable/)
 * (@svariable)
 * [6 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/analytics-problem-3/#post-11978189)
 * follow, same problem 🙁
 *  Thread Starter [politicske](https://wordpress.org/support/users/politicske/)
 * (@politicske)
 * [6 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/analytics-problem-3/#post-11978537)
 * Seems deactivating the feature also breaks analytics. Lost all my traffic for
   Friday and Saturday.
 *  Plugin Author [Daan van den Bergh](https://wordpress.org/support/users/daanvandenbergh/)
 * (@daanvandenbergh)
 * [6 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/analytics-problem-3/#post-11979220)
 * You need to update analytics.js after saving the changes. Otherwise it will break
   analytics.js, that’s true.
 *  Plugin Author [Daan van den Bergh](https://wordpress.org/support/users/daanvandenbergh/)
 * (@daanvandenbergh)
 * [6 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/analytics-problem-3/#post-11979443)
 * Hi [@politicske](https://wordpress.org/support/users/politicske/), [@svariable](https://wordpress.org/support/users/svariable/),
 * This bug is resolved in v2.8.0.
 * Thanks for reporting!
 *  Plugin Author [Daan van den Bergh](https://wordpress.org/support/users/daanvandenbergh/)
 * (@daanvandenbergh)
 * [6 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/analytics-problem-3/#post-11979446)
 * The problem was that the user agent of the server was sent along with the request.
   Overriding the ua-parameter and setting the original user-agent as the user-agent
   of the request resolved this.
 *  Thread Starter [politicske](https://wordpress.org/support/users/politicske/)
 * (@politicske)
 * [6 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/analytics-problem-3/#post-11979927)
 * 1. Thanks for the update. BTW, does the plugin use google fonts on the settings
   page? When I navigate to this plugin’s settings page, the test ad blocker I have
   detects these three domains: bootstrapcdn.com, maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com and fonts.
   googleapis.com.
    2. How to know the stealth mode is working? Coz my test ad blocker
   still detects google analytics from the website. My second biggest fan base is
   Opera Mini and I guess due to its default ad-blocking feature, my opera stats
   might not be reflective of the actual visits.
 *  Plugin Author [Daan van den Bergh](https://wordpress.org/support/users/daanvandenbergh/)
 * (@daanvandenbergh)
 * [6 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/analytics-problem-3/#post-11980145)
 * Hi [@politicske](https://wordpress.org/support/users/politicske/),
 * 1. No problem. No, no fonts are loaded or anything. The settings page is composed
   entirely of elements already available in WordPress-core. Another plugin or theme
   must be loading them on every in the administrator area.
    2. You can verify the
   stealth mode is working by opening the console (F12 in most browsers) and going
   to the ‘Network’-tab. Usually, there should be a request URI called ‘collect’
   followed by a bunch of parameters. Usually this is request is sent to [http://www.google-analytics.com](http://www.google-analytics.com),
   but now, it will go to your own server e.g. yourdomain.com/collect?param1=true&
   param2=false. In other words, no calls to google-analytics.com should be made,
   unless you’re using remarketing services.
 *  Plugin Author [Daan van den Bergh](https://wordpress.org/support/users/daanvandenbergh/)
 * (@daanvandenbergh)
 * [6 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/analytics-problem-3/#post-11980146)
 * Btw, it will not bypass all ad blockers. I already noticed that uBlock still 
   captures it, because it scans the contents of the file. However, it still bypassed
   other very popular ones, such as Ad Blocker Plus and Firefox’ integrated tracking
   blocker.
 * I didn’t test with Opera Mini. Didn’t know people still used that 😛
 *  Thread Starter [politicske](https://wordpress.org/support/users/politicske/)
 * (@politicske)
 * [6 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/analytics-problem-3/#post-11980396)
 * 1. Okay. Will try to check on that though I noticed these domains are only detected
   on your plugin’s page.
    2. In developing countries, opera mini is (or was) very
   popular for those with limited data plans. Despite browsers like chrome and firefox
   introducing data saving features, some people still use opera mini, especially
   in the countryside. (I test the opera mini browser and the ad block detects the
   code too and blocks it in stealth mode).

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