Jetpack site stats inaccurate for multi-site. What WILL work?

  • Resolved tspnyc

    (@tspnyc)


    11 years, 11 months ago

    After going through all the tangled web of creating a multi-site, on Dreamhost, I was distressed to learn that the Site stats available through Jetpack are inaccurate and basically worthless, at least when it comes to my own multi-site set up.

    My site onemaz.com is nothing more than a portal to my actual sites onemanz.com/guitar and onemanz.com/malt.

    I will get 99% of my traffic directly on those two sub-sites, bypassing the top domain.

    Already I can see how this will be a problem with stats.

    I have officially been “open” for two days. My guitar site has received many more visits by direct links than my top domain has received. Some of the static pages are being posted and shared via email by nameless persons, leading to more direct visits.

    To make matters worse, each sub-site has their own “blog” and likewise have received their own visits and their own comments – but none of that is being reflected in the Jetpack site stats – which is only counting onemanz.com and ignoring the subsites. Jetpack shows I have two comments – because that is all the blog on the top domain received.

    Is there some similar plugin or add-on that will track the sub-site traffic and comments etc? Can Jetpack stats be configured to include or separately track the two sub-sites?

    Now, the site was created using the sub-directory method (onemanz.com/guitar rather than onemanz.com.guitar). Would that make a difference in the tracking stats and separate blogs?

    I never did find anywhere on the internet that successfully explained any advantages or disadvantages to using one style of multi-site over another. But could going with / rather than . matter in this case?

    Finally, on a related topic, is there any way to track traffic on pages? While I always put a blurb and link to each page I create on its respective blog, all of my guitar reviews, whisky reviews, interviews and articles will be created as pages. The blog will contain primarily industry news feeds and press releases, and those blurbs to pages that I mentioned.

    WPress is all new to me. I now see I may have to ultimately go with three separate domains for the sake of internet traffic stats.

    But that will treble my costs. I can wait a while on that until things are running smoothly. But I hate to then lose all the stats from the “grand opening” weeks when press releases are going out to industry people, who are already stopping by.

    Your thoughts?

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  • Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

    (@ipstenu)

    ?????? Advisor and Activist

    How did you determine they were ‘inaccurate’?

    To make matters worse, each sub-site has their own “blog” and likewise have received their own visits and their own comments – but none of that is being reflected in the Jetpack site stats – which is only counting onemanz.com and ignoring the subsites. Jetpack shows I have two comments – because that is all the blog on the top domain received.

    You just have to activate Jetpack on each site, is all.

    They’re not worthless, you just have to know what you’re looking at. You can always use Google, and have the same GA account for all the sites.

    Thread Starter tspnyc

    (@tspnyc)

    Lor’ bless you for a sain’, Govuhnuh!

    My network admin dashboard showed Jetpack was activated for my “network” and “deactivate network” was my only option.

    I was unaware that I had to go to WordPress for each individual site and register it. But your response made me go look at that, and now the sub-sites are registered. Thank you very much!

    By inaccurate, I meant that, while they accurately showed the stats for the main domain, I had many more comments and hits on the sub-sites and their own blogs and articles that were not being reflected in the stats, so it gave a false impression of what traffic I have received thus far.

    Thanks again.

    Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

    (@ipstenu)

    ?????? Advisor and Activist

    Heh. Just remember this and you’ll be okay: Separate sites are separate.

    Yes, they use the same code base, have the same themes and plugins to draw from, and the same possible users, but the content remains segregated. Stats are based on content.

    Now, if you really want to track all sites under one umbrella (which … I do elsewhere), Google or Woopra would be the best bets. You can hook into the footer of every site with a mu-plugin. But if that’s not the case, Jetpack’s the easiest.

    (If you’re on DreamHost, and I have this memory you are ?? and you turn on Google PageSpeed, we have a built in way for you to add your GA tracking from Panel. Go to Panel -> Domains -> Edit Domain. It’s in there.)

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