We’ve written and released a WordPress plugin that will always be “really free” and makes it easy to integrate Google’s Universal Analytics on your WordPress blog.
Recently we were looking for a lightweight plugin that just implements the Google Universal Analytics tracking code on a WordPress blog.
We found a couple outdated ones that didn’t work anymore, and the rest were bloated with too many features or advertisements for a commercial version.
We decided that it would be faster to write the perfect plugin rather than continue our search.
We’ve released version 1.0 of Simple Google Analytics by Fierce Geek.
Features
- Implements Universal Analytics (vs. Classic Analytics) which includes new features such as Cross Domain Tracking, Google Optimize, Audience Demographics, Interests Reporting, and Display and Search Remarketing.
- Only requires the tracking code from your Google Universal Analytics account to get started
- Just check a box to add Google’s enhanced link attribution to the tracking code
- Just check a box to filter admin pages or admin banner pages from being tracked
- Supports Google’s User-Id by using the fiercegeek_qa_user_id WordPress hook
About the design
- Smallest and most efficient plugin that I could make while still supporting the latest WordPress plugin standards
- Uses settings over options
- Set up for localization, making it easy to add translations through pots
- Cleans up completely after itself on uninstall
Download
You can download the plugin here.