Suggestion: don’t count pages viewed when logged as WordPress Admin

  • Resolved chrisk200

    (@chrisk200)


    4 years, 10 months ago

    Could Site Kit automatically deactivate the Google script when interacting with the site as WordPress admin (or other given roles like editor maybe based on an options).
    On sites with moderate traffic, when working intensively on editing pages as WordPress administrator or editor, counting the pages viewed introduce a bias in the Google stats.
    I know it is possible to exclude some IP addresses from the stats in Google analytics but if you do not have a fixed IP address, it is of no use for the above purpose.
    Chris

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  • Plugin Support James Osborne

    (@jamesosborne)

    @chrisk200 Did you manage to get an opportunity to test the latest version of Site Kit with your current Tag Manager setup? It would be great to know if it’s now working as suggested.

    Thread Starter chrisk200

    (@chrisk200)

    Hi Renee, Please find below the results of my tests with version Site Kit 1.6.0:

    I removed all Google code snippets I had inserted using another plugin than Site Kit.
    In Site Kit I inserted the Goole Tag Manager snippet and I Excluded logged in users in the Analytics settings. (I did not insert the analytics code snippet, only the Tag Manager one).

    When accessing pages from anonymous browser tabs:

    I saw the pages well reported in the Google Analytics realtime overview

    The info displayed by Google Tag Manager on the pages was OK:

    1. Google Ads Remarketing Tag (Green)
    75xxxxxx4

    2. Google Analytics
    UA-117******-1

    3. Google Tag Manager
    GTM-MGxxxxx

    Then, when accessing pages as a logged WordPress admin:

    I did not saw the pages reported in the Google Analytics realtime overview (this is OK)

    The info displayed by Google Tag Manager was:

    Found 2 tags and 1 warning;

    1. Google Ads Remarketing Tag (Green)
    75xxxxxx4

    2. Google Tag Manager
    GTM-MGxxxxx

    and:

    No Google Analytics HTTP responses because opted out code detected.

    I think this is OK.

    Then I try editing pages and was able to see that nothing was reported in the Google Analytics realtime overview. this is OK.

    (FYI this site use the Divi Theme and builder. I did edit pages using various methods: classic editor, front-end editor. This site aso uses the WP Rocket cache plug-in.)

    So it seems all is in order now.
    Thanks!

    Chris

    @chrisk200 thanks a million for evaluating this on your site! I’m happy to hear that it is resolved. We’ll keep on working on improving those other aspects in Site Kit. Again, thanks so much for your feedback/ report.

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