I’ve done a bit of digging and wondering if removing a plugin I was trialling could have affected my Google Site Kit / Insight figures? Details:
On April 12th I spotted that JetPack were now charging to look at my traffic figures in detail, so I thought I’d look elsewhere. We’re a small website and don’t exactly pull in enough money to make the premium features worthwhile. I already had (and still have) Google Site Kit installed, linked to Search Console, Analytics, AdSense, PageSpeed Insights and Tag Manager. However, I spotted MonsterInsights and installed it for a trial.
I gave it a few hours, realised that it was just a freemium overlay of Google Analytics, and uninstalled it. I opted to just use Google Site Kit / Analytics directly.
However… two days later and my figures on Site Kit have tanked. On the 13th and 14th April – the two days after my tinkering and the only two since then that I can see on Analytics – we’re down a consistent 65% in terms of visitors. It’s even labelled as “Anomoly Detected”. Except that the Jetpack overview for the same dates disagrees with that, and is showing figures roughly inline with what we’d usually have.
What could have broken with Site Kit when removing Monster? And any idea how I could fix it? Do I need to reinstall MonsterInsights and tinker with anything? Or remove and reinstall Site Kit?
\[EDIT\] I’ve looked further and individual pages are getting views and being registered on Analytics, but their individual views are all down by huge percentages. The implication being that any tags / header code must still be in place otherwise at least some pages wouldn’t be registering traffic.
Thanks in advance for any pointers.
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