local-ga.js is empty

This is really strange, pxlar8, and must be server specific issue.

Since the plug-in is running succesfully on another WordPress instance on the same server, it could be an issue in that WordPress installation.

Have you tried disabling all plug-ins and running it again?

Keep in mind that wp-cron() is a pseudo-cron and only runs if your site is visited. Do you have a busy site? Even after manually running the cron-command, you still need a visitor to trigger the wp-cron event.

Try using a service like Pingdom Tools to ‘visit’ your site and see if that triggers the cron to run, when all plug-ins are disabled. If you still have no luck, let me know.

I was mistaken–it’s not working on the other site either. I was thrown because that site was still tracking in GA, but it must have been accessing a separate cached version. But checking the local-ga.js file on that install and it’s still empty.

Yes, there’s plenty of traffic to trigger the cron–1M/month. And running it manually with WP Control didn’t seem to fix it. Have also visited with Pingdom Tools and GTMetrix.

This is strange. Are you using the Bounce Rate option? This is currently not working correctly.

It could also be a permissions issue. Is your wp-content, plugins and the host-ga-locally folder all 755?

Check this link for more info:

I tried with and without the Bounce Rate option.

I’ve completely uninstalled and reinstalled it but doesn’t appear to have solved it.

The wp-content, plugins and the host-ga-locally folders are all 755 and the local-ga.js file itself is 644 (also tried changing it to 755).

Have also tried deactivating all plugins (except host locally) but no luck.

Must be something on the server setup, it seems.

This does seem to be a server specific issue. Could you create me an account for your WordPress installation? Then I can take a look around, as soon as I have some more time on my hands.

Btw. I just committed an update to the WordPress repository. As soon as this is released, try updating, perhaps that’ll fix something.

Btw, you can use the contact form on my site to send me login details.

Since I haven’t heard from you, through e-mail or through this support forum for over a week, I’m marking this thread as resolved.

Actually I have the same issue, I was thinking it was because of an incompatability with autooptimize.

I just reactivated it and it started to have some content now. But I am not sure if it is working or not (real-time analytics is down at the moment). Just looking at the waterfall I don’t see any requests to Google from the browser session or from a “netstat -a | grep google” (is this by design?)

In addition, I am using autooptimize as I had noted earlier but this script does not get merged into autooptimize.

Apologies, I see the problem now, I was using Firefox to test and that has tracking turned off when using incognito mode. Chrome shows it is sending data to Google now. Though it’s still not being merged with autoptimize, but I can file that as another bug later.

Good that you managed to get it to work. Ga-local isn’t being merged by design. It’s not a bug. I am currently testing it, but merging that script can cause a lot of Javascript errors.