Site Kit by Google – Analytics, Search Console, AdSense, Speed vs Toplytics

Site Kit is the official WordPress plugin from Google for insights about how people find and use your site. Site Kit is the one-stop solution to deploy, manage, and get insights from critical Google tools to make the site successful on the web. It provides authoritative, up-to-date insights from multiple Google products directly on the WordPress dashboard for easy access, all for free. Bringing the best of Google tools to WordPress Site Kit includes powerful features that make using these Google products seamless and flexible: Easy-to-understand stats directly on your WordPress dashboard Official stats from multiple Google tools, all in one dashboard Quick setup for multiple Google tools without having to edit the source code of your site Metrics for your entire site and for individual posts Easy-to-manage, granular permissions across WordPress and different Google products Supported Google tools Site Kit shows key metrics and insights from different Google products: Search Console: Understand how Google Search discovers and displays your pages in Google Search. Track how many people saw your site in Search results, and what query they used to search for your site. Analytics: Explore how users navigate your site and track goals you’ve set up for your users to complete. AdSense: Keep track of how much your site is earning you. PageSpeed Insights: See how your pages perform compared to other real-world sites. Improve performance with actionable tips from PageSpeed Insights. Tag Manager: Use Site Kit to easily set up Tag Manager- no code editing required. Then, manage your tags in Tag Manager. Sign in with Google: Allows visitors to sign up and log in to your site with their existing Google account. Reader Revenue Manager: Helps you grow, retain, and engage your site visitors via subscription, contribution, newsletters, surveys, and custom prompts. Ads: Get customers and sell more with targeted traffic from Google Ads.

Displays the most visited posts as a widget using data from Google Analytics. Designed to be used under high-traffic or low server resources. About the makers This plugin was developed by the crafty people at Presslabs—the Smart Managed WordPress Hosting Platform. Here we bring high-performance hosting and business intelligence for WordPress sites. In our spare time, we contribute to the global open-source community with our plugins. We built this plugin in 2013 to provide a less resource consuming alternative to help our clients that wanted to display a list with the most popular articles on their websites. What is Toplytics? This plugin displays the most visited posts as a widget, using data extracted from Google Analytics. Toplytics is designed to work with high-traffic sites and all types of caching. For more details check the official Toplytics documentation. Why Toplytics? You can use this plugin if you want to display the most visited posts of your site in a safe and reliable manner, with no risk of downtime or slowness. The plugin is built for high-traffic sites where counting every visitor’s click loads up the DB and presents the potential of crashing the site. Of course, you need an active Google Analytics setup on your site to use this plugin. Toplytics features: shortcodes are now supported for easier integration into posts/pages or other widgets. [toplytics period=”week” numberposts=”3″ showviews=”true”] Check FAQ for details; connect with Google Analytics Account using OAuth 2.0 method; starting with the plugin version 3.0 we have switched to GA API v3. Toplytics provides a widget displaying the most visited posts as simple links (no styling); use the widget to display the most visited posts from the past day, week or month; set the number of posts to be displayed between 1 and 250; display the number of views as counted by Google Analytics; support/translate i18n requests; generate the list of the most visited posts dynamically with JavaScript to correctly display them with any caching mechanism/plugin; use the custom template to display the widget. Receiving is nicer when giving We’ve built Toplytics to make our lives easier and we’re happy to do that for other developers and site owners, too. We’d really appreciate it if you could contribute with code, tests, documentation or just share your experience with Toplytics. Development of Toplytics happens at github.com/PressLabs/toplytics. Issues are tracked at github.com/PressLabs/toplytics/issues. This WordPress plugin can be found at wordpress.org/plugins/toplytics/.