Hi @4lfant,
We appreciate you for taking the time to share your thoughts with us. I’m sorry about the confusion with using MonsterInsights versus just using Google Analytics.
MonsterInsights is a plugin that makes Google Analytics easy to use and easy to insert into your WordPress site. If you wanted to just use Google Analytics alone you could, but you’d be responsible for inserting your tracking code into your WordPress theme, and then if you were wanting to track more than just pageviews, you’d need to write and insert additional code to track them.
I’m sorry that not all MonsterInsights reports are viewable and instead show a notification in our free version, aside from the Overview report. We include them to provide as much value as possible to our users by communicating the Pro version features because a lot of users aren’t aware of them and can benefit greatly.
That being said, with our Lite (free) version, you’re able to track and view critical site statistics (such as page views in the last 30 days, top posts and pages, etc) and automatically track custom events such as telephone, email click tracking, affiliate, outbound, or download link tracking. Data for these custom events are normally found in the Publishers report, which isn’t available in the Lite version, however it can be viewed within your Google Analytics property by visiting analytics.google.com directly.
We really appreciate you for giving us a try and if you have any suggestions for the things you’d like to see in the Lite version, please let me know and I’d be happy to share your feedback with the team.
And if you’d like more help with using MonsterInsights Lite, please feel welcome to reach us at https://www.monsterinsights.com/lite-support/
Thank you.
