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

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.

WP VisitorFlow provides detailed information about visitors to your website. With WP VisitorFlow you can see at a glance how visitors interact with your website: All paths taken by your visitors are summarized in a comprehensive flowchart. Fast and Clear Visualization WP VisitorFlow not only tracks the flow of visitors to your WordPress website, it makes the flow visible. Detailed but still clear diagrams provide you with the full information about the visitor flow. See, how your visitors use your website. Learn, how changes in your website’s structure or new posts or pages influence the visitor flow. Use WP VisitorFlow to get feedback on your publishing actions and integrate it in your search engine optimization process. Highly Performant, Independent and Privacy-Friendly WP VisitorFlow has been developed with focus on website performance, usability and data privacy. Although tremendous amounts of data can arise from the flow on highly frequented websites, the plugin is optimized for minimized data storage and a minimum database load. All data is stored in your own WordPress database – no third party tool or service is necessary. Last but not least, the software has been developed to fulfill strict data privacy regulations. Feature List Storage of visitor data – Web browsers, operation systems, and IP address (encryption possible). Page views – Any view of any page on your WordPress website including date and time. Visualization of the visitor flow – Step-by-step diagrams providing at-a-glance information about your visitors’ routes on your website. Statistics on search engines, web crawlers, spiders and bots, including search key words. Encapsulated data storage – All data is stored only in your own WordPress database, no external source or additional service necessary. It is all yours, it stays yours. Data privacy – Optional anonymization of visitor data regarding data privacy rules in several countries. Data compression – Automatized compression (data aggregation) of older data to keep your database lean and your website performance up. Support If you find any bug, have a question or need a new feature, please post a short comment at the support forum. We will come back to you as soon as possible. Developers, please have also a look at the official repo on GitHub.