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I’ve been using wordpress for years and have never heard of Google Site Kit until today.
This whole time i’ve been paying Sky Verge for a GA tracking plugin.
Am I missing something? Or does Google Site Kit handle everything Sky Verges GA Pro plugin does?
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Site Kit is a relatively new plugin
I never used Sky Verges GA plugin but I have been using Google Sitekit for work for a while now; it’s just an extension to your google analytics, I don’t bother with anything else because the plugin maintained by Google and connecting your website is super easy. No more go ro your account create ga account for your client and copy the script and inject into your code. That alone saves me so much time.
But it doesn’t offer anything more than GA does
Isn’t sky verge godaddy? If so nuke that
FWIW , I’ve always found the Google Site Kit to be a little burdensome on performance.
Yes.
I used Google Site Kit for about 5 minutes until I noticed how slow my site became and removed it. Then, I set up a child theme and moved the GA code into functions.php – no plugin required.
Site kit is great. We usually go for Tag manager or use Rank Maths Pro integration since we usually already use it for SEO
clarity.microsoft.com is free and has a free wordpress plugin if you want to try that
https://wordpress.org/plugins/host-analyticsjs-local/
https://wordpress.org/plugins/true-lazy-analytics/
Either is a better implementation than SiteKit
I use Google Tag Manager and https://wordpress.org/plugins/duracelltomi-google-tag-manager/
Yes, you have
Recommend not adding another plugin to your site and installing GA through GTM instead – gives you consent controls and allows you to centrally manage all of your third party scripts
Well, you’re in for a treat! Google Site Kit is an official, free plugin from Google that handles Google Analytics tracking along with other Google services like Search Console, AdSense, and PageSpeed Insights. It’s a solid, all-in-one solution.
SkyVerge’s GA Pro is a paid plugin and might offer extra features or better support, especially for e-commerce sites, but for standard GA tracking, Google Site Kit should do the job just fine. If you’re just looking for comprehensive GA tracking without the extra cost, switching to Google Site Kit could save you some bucks!
We used GA Pro for a number of years but they took ages to implement GA4 (leaving it almost to the deadline) and then cart/checkout blocks so we knocked it on the head.
If you’re using WooCommerce and need ecommerce events, I would recommend learning the basics of GTM and using GTMKit plugin.
SiteKit is known to slow down your website quite a bit. If you don’t want to have that problem, your best bet is to add the GA code manually, without using a plugin at all.
Just ask GPT4 how to do it, and it’ll walk you through the process and answer any questions
You can manage everything through Google Tag Manager, be it GA, Console, Ads and all other google products with just a one or two snippet on your site. You don’t need anything else.
Site kit is hella overkill if all you want is to get some GA stats for your wordpress site. A quick 10-line mu-plugin can do that, without needing to screw around with all the rest of sitekit’s functionality. [This page](https://websitesetup.org/google-analytics-wordpress/) has code you can utilize—skip to the bottom and read the section titled “Option C: Use a Custom Plugin.” Problem solved in 30 seconds.
If all you need is basic page view tracking, just the standard GA tracking script is sufficient.
The Sky Verge GA tracking plugin I believe you are referencing is for WooCommerce conversion tracking – they do not make a general Google Analytics plugin like Site Kit. So you with the Sky Verge plugin you not only get the GA tracking script added but it is doing the conversion tracking on WooCommerce purchases into Google Analytics as well. That could be worthwhile to you.
Site Kit does not do conversion tracking, it only does the basic analytics tracking which can also be accomplished with a few lines of custom code by editing your functions.php file and thus reducing any massive plugin overhead.
My plugin [Conversion Bridge](https://conversionbridgewp.com) adds the GA4 tracking scripts in a lightweight manner, does WooCommerce conversion tracking… but also conversion tracking for 50+ other plugins as well. Basically anything you need to track it can track it with no-code setup and often in a single click.
If you haven’t considered moving off GA4 yet, I recommend doing so – there are a lot of other [privacy-focused analytics platforms](https://conversionbridgewp.com/platforms/) that are so much easier to use than GA4. And yes, Conversion Bridge works with every single one of them to add the tracking script and do conversion tracking for it as well.