Connects Google Analytics with your WordPress site. Displays stats to help you understand your users and site content on a whole new level!
- Installs
- 200,000+
- Rating
- 2.5 (1.5K)
- Updated
- 45 days ago
ShareThis Dashboard for Google Analytics
Use Google Analytics on your WordPress site without touching any code, and view visitor reports right in your WordPress admin dashboard!
- Active installs
- 80,000+
- #534 of 1,000
- Downloads, all time
- 6.5M
- 6,524,641
- Downloads, 30 days
- 16.2K
- 3.1K in the last 7
- Rating
- 3.6 / 5
- 138 reviews
- Last updated
- 37 days ago
- Sep 24, 2026
- Version
- 3.4.2
- 46 releases
Upkeep and compatibility
| Last updated | September 24, 2026Updated in the last 3 months |
|---|---|
| Tested up to | WordPress 7.1.4Covers WordPress 7.1.4, the current release |
| Needs WordPress | 5.5 or newer |
| Needs PHP | Not stated |
| First published | June 15, 2009 |
| Support, last two months | 0 of 1 threads resolved (0%) |
Reviews
3.6 / 5 from 138 reviews
| 5 stars | 85 |
|---|---|
| 4 stars | 6 |
| 3 stars | 1 |
| 2 stars | 1 |
| 1 star | 45 |
Downloads, last 30 days
What the author says it does
Monitor, analyze, and measure visitor engagement for your site directly from your WordPress dashboard with our Google Analytics plugin. With our Google Analytics dashboard, you’ll be able to conveniently access Google Analytics reports in the same interface you already use every day to write and manage your posts.
Unlike other plugins, there are no monthly fees or paid upgrades for this plugin. All of the features are 100% free.
GOOGLE ANALYTICS SETUP
Get started in less than 10 minutes. Installation is quick and easy, no developers required.
Simply download the plugin, log into Google, select your Google Analytics 4 (GA4) property, and it will automatically include the appropriate tracking code for you.
GOOGLE ANALYTICS DASHBOARD
Start making data-driven decisions with real time stats including:
- Visitor trends – Dive deeper into your website’s page views, users, pages per session, and bounce rate for the past 7 days as compared to the previous 7 days
- Traffic sources – Discover which 5 traffic sources are driving the most visitors to your website
- Top pages – Stay updated on your 10 most viewed pages
- Demographics – Get device type and gender data in your dashboard
- GDPR Compliance Tool – For EU Compliance, we’ve integrated the ShareThis GDPR Compliance Tool into our plugin.
The opening of the plugin's own description. The full text, installation notes and changelog are on its WordPress.org page.
Questions the author answers
Why Do I Need Google Analytics for My WordPress Website?
Google Analytics is a powerful tool for monitoring website performance. With Google Analytics, you’ll gain insights such as what geographic areas your visitors are coming from, what channels led them to your website (paid search, social, organic, etc.), what devices they use to browse your site, and what other websites are sending visitors to your site.
How Do I Use Google Analytics on WordPress?
Using Google Analytics on your WordPress website is a must for monitoring your website’s traffic and gaining valuable visitor insights. There are two ways to use Google Analytics on WordPress:
- Manually adding the Google Analytics tracking code to your header.php file
- Installing the Google Analytics Dashboard for WordPress plugin and setting up tracking in a few simple steps
Do I Need to Put Google Analytics Tracking Code on Every Page?
Google Analytics tracking code is a block of JavaScript code that executes Google Analytics tracking when a visitor loads a page on your website. The script that triggers these events must be loaded on every page in order for Google Analytics tracking to work.
How Do I Use Google Analytics for SEO?
There are many ways to leverage Google Analytics to improve your WordPress website’s SEO. SEO, or search engine optimization, is the practice of tracking and analyzing website data to improve organic traffic. But tracking traffic and other website metrics alone doesn’t magically improve your SEO.
How Do I Stay Compliant with GDPR When Using Google Analytics?
When the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) was first introduced, website publishers everywhere were fraught with anxiety about what it would mean for their businesses and overwhelmed with the steps they needed to take to ensure compliance.
What is GA4?
Google Analytics 4 (GA4) is the current version of Google’s analytics platform and the only version supported going forward. GA4 property IDs look like G-XXXXXXX. GA4 lets you track both websites and apps under one account, adds many new reporting features, and provides deeper insights into how users interact with your content.
Latest changelog entry
- Fix fatal error on PHP 8 (count(): Argument #1 ($value) must be of type Countable|array, string given) when reading the selected Google Analytics account, which is stored as a JSON string.
- Harden account ID lookup against malformed or empty selected-account data.
Screenshots
Overall site performance - the past 7/30 days 
The top 10 page views for the past 7/30 days 
Click “Sign in with Google” to get started connecting your Google Analytics account 
Choose your GA4 property from the property selector step
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Where this page's numbers come from
Read from the WordPress.org plugin API on , when WordPress 7.1.4 was the current release. WordPress.org rounds active installs into buckets. These are the directory's figures, not my verdict, and I haven't tested this plugin.