CAOS for Analytics | Host Google Analytics Locally

Automagically download analytics.js, keep it updated using WordPress' built-in Cron-schedule, generate the tracking code, add it to your site's header or footer and tons of other features!

Description

CAOS for Google Analytics allows you to host analytics.js locally and keep it updated using WordPress' built-in Cron-schedule. Fully automatic!

Whenever you run an analysis of your website on Google Pagespeed Insights, Pingdom or GTMetrix, it'll tell you to leverage browser cache when you're using Google Analytics. Because Google has set the cache expiry time to 2 hours. This plugin will get you a higher score on Pagespeed and Pingdom and make your website load faster, because the user's browser doesn't have to make a roundtrip to download the file from Google's external server.

Just install the plugin, enter your Tracking-ID and the plugin adds the necessary Tracking Code for Google Analytics to the header (or footer) of your theme, downloads and saves the analytics.js-file to your website's server and keeps it updated (automagically) using a scheduled script in wp_cron(). CAOS for Analytics is a set and forget plugin.

For more information: How to setup CAOS for Analytics.

Features

• Host analytics.js/ga.js locally,
• Allow tracking always or only when a certain cookie exists or has a value -- Read more about GDPR Compliance,
• Add tracking code to header, footer or manually,
• Enable compatibility with Monster Insights' Google Analytics for Wordpress (and WooCommerce),
• Save analytics.js anywhere within the WordPress content (wp-content) directory to avoid detection by WordPress security plugins (such as WordFence) or removal by caching plugins (such as WP Super Cache),
• Set Cookie Expiry Period,
• Set Adjusted Bounce Rate,
• Change enqueue order (prioritize order of loaded scripts),
• Force disabling display features functionalities,
• Anonymize IP addresses,
• Track logged in Administrators,
• Remove script from wp-cron, so you can add it manually to your Crontab,
• Manually update analytics.js by the click of a button!

Installation

Using GIT

1. From your terminal, cd to your plugins directory (usually wp-content/plugins)
2. Run the following command: git clone https://github.com/Dan0sz/host-analytics-locally.git host-analyticsjs-locally

From the WordPress Repository

1. From your WordPress administrator area, go to Plugins > Add New
2. Search for 'Daan van den Bergh'
3. Click the 'Install' button next to CAOS | Host Google Analytics Locally
4. Click 'Activate'

Frequently Asked Questions

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Support

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Changelog

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