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--></style></head><body lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal">Hi all, below is some investigation from one of our vendors about utilizing Google Analytics across our entire multi-site network. I am not a GA expert, but somewhat familiar. Maybe there is just something fundamental to GA that I am not understanding. I was hoping to have it be as simple as “install once, all analytics”. Does anyone have any experience with this, and what is/isn’t possible? The results from testing below indicate we may have to do 1 GA code (or tracking ID) per site in order to track properly. Our network is sub-dirs off of <a href="http://wp.comminfo.rutgers.edu/">http://wp.comminfo.rutgers.edu/</a>, but a good portion of sites have their own domains.</p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">I also thought these results would be useful for other people considering how to implement analytics.</p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><h3 style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:3.75pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:15.0pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:black">Re: Investigate using Google Analytics on multi-site (John Bowen ) </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:black;font-weight:normal"></span></h3><p class="small" style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:11.25pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:11.25pt;color:grey"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:black">From the to-do list: Tasks for YWD</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:14.25pt"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:black">On Friday, to get some idea of how Domain Mapping would work in relation to Google Analytics, I set up my test WordPress network as follows</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:14.25pt"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:black"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:14.25pt"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:black">Network websites</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:14.25pt"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:black">- <a href="http://wordpress.yardleywebdesign.com">wordpress.yardleywebdesign.com</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:14.25pt"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:black">- <a href="http://wordpress.yardleywebdesign.com/test">wordpress.yardleywebdesign.com/test</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:14.25pt"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:black">- <a href="http://wordpress.yardleywebdesign.com/johngbowen">wordpress.yardleywebdesign.com/johngbowen</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:14.25pt"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:black">- <a href="http://wordpress.yardleywebdesign.com/gfh">wordpress.yardleywebdesign.com/gfh</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:14.25pt"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:black"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:14.25pt"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:black">I loaded the WordPress plugins Google Analytics Dashboard for WP and WordPress MU Domain Mapping (from WPENGINE). I used the WPENGINE plugin for the moment as it was free and had less options. Initially I just network activated the Google Analytics plugin. In my Google Analytics account, I added another property (<a href="http://wordpress.yardleywebdesign.com">wordpress.yardleywebdesign.com</a>) and it gave me a new tracking ID (actually the same as <a href="http://yardleywebdesign.com">yardleywebdesign.com</a> with a -2 instead of -1). In the Google Analytics plugin I set it up to use a single Google Analytics account for all sites (Mode 2) and loaded the new Tracking ID.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:14.25pt"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:black"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:14.25pt"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:black">While watching Google Analytics through the Real-Time Overview feature, as I clicked through the various websites and their pages, I could see the corresponding pages show up (without the <a href="http://wordpress.yardleywebdesign.com">wordpress.yardleywebdesign.com</a> prefix) in the Top Active Pages section. So root pages were showing as /, /test/, /johngbowen/ and /gfh/. The data from all of the sites was correctly being funneled in to the one Google Analytics account.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:14.25pt"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:black"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:14.25pt"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:black">Next, I network activated the Domain Mapping plugin and did all of the necessary setup. Through this setup I mapped <a href="http://wordpress.yardleywebdesign.com/gfh">wordpress.yardleywebdesign.com/gfh</a> to an unused domain that I own in my hosting account, <a href="http://golfersfromhell.org">golfersfromhell.org</a>. Once the set up was complete, I verified that typing <a href="http://wordpress.yardleywebdesign.com/gfh">wordpress.yardleywebdesign.com/gfh</a> in the browser window correctly took me to the right site and the website url now read <a href="http://golfersfromhell.org">golfersfromhell.org</a>. I also typed <a href="http://golfersfromhell.org">golfersfromhell.org</a> in the browser and verified that it took me to the same website page.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:14.25pt"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:black"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:14.25pt"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:black">Again looking at Google Analytics in the same manner, all of the page views were showing. However, where previously, before Domain Mapping was turned on, page views to any pages on <a href="http://wordpress.yardleywebdesign.com/gfh">wordpress.yardleywebdesign.com/gfh</a> were showing with the prefex /gfh/ followed by the page name, now they were showing as simply the page name (no prefix). So accessing the main page of <a href="http://wordpress.yardleywebdesign.com">wordpress.yardleywebdesign.com</a> and <a href="http://wordpress.yardleywebdesign.com/gfh">wordpress.yardleywebdesign.com/gfh</a> (<a href="http://golfersfromhell.org">golfersfromhell.org</a>) would both shows as /. So with the basic setup, there does not appear to be a way to distinguish between visits to the wp root site (id-1) and the root page for any site that is domain mapped. This would also be the case if any of the inner pages have the same url.<br><br>There is a way to use different Analytics IDs for each site (-1, -2, etc.) and have that data link back up in to one account. It does involve editing the GA code within each site which might be difficult. I'm also not if the data would show any differently. But I can look in to this method further or see if there is some other way to configure GA and Domain Mapping such that each of the sites can be identified in the GA display.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#7f7f7f"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#7f7f7f">---------------------------------<br>BEN BAKELAAR | IT Services<br>School of Communication and Information </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#7f7f7f">Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey<br>p 848.932.8710</span><span style="color:#7f7f7f"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p></div></body></html>