Terrible if you have more than one website in your Google Analytics

  • I’m sure this is a good plugin for the user that only has one website and is the only user with admin access to the site.

    As a web designer, I do not want my website owners to be able to see other website’s analyitcs through their dashboard.

    Analyticator is the better plugin here.

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  • Andrew Nevins

    (@anevins)

    WCLDN 2018 Contributor | Volunteer support

    Can you describe the issues you faced when giving people access level settings, did you receive an error message?

    @jenngood your site owner can edit a plugin, right? With a simple line of code he can display any profile he wants from your account, as long as you’ve authorized that plugin using your account (this includes Analyticator). Nice, don’t you think?

    Worse than that, if he copies your token from database, he can have access to your account and share your account stats with everyone :).

    I can’t understand why do you people keep all profiles in one account and use that account to authorize the dashboards for other site owners.

    In my opinion a good practice and a secure one is to:

    1. Create an analytics account for each site owner.
    2. Authorize the dashboard using that account.

    If you need to have their stats in your account, you just use the User Management functionality and share those stats from Google Analytics -> Admin -> User Management.

    Forgot to mention that on Settings -> GA Dashboard, on Main Dashboard Settings there is an option called disable dashboard’s Switch Profile functionality if you don’t care about security and just want to remove websites list from dashboard.

    @jenngood, you really should examine settings before giving this (or any plugin, for that matter) 1 Star?

    I too am a web designer, and have a few ‘legacy’ sites in a master account for client Analytics — as the Author, Alin Marcu, suggests, it’s a better idea (going forward) for me to setup separate accounts in Analytics, as Google doesn’t allow for that account to transfer if/when that may occur in the future.

    That said, Alin Marcu details exactly what I had to do in order for only the client in question being able to see only its Analytics:
    1. Go to Settings > GA Dashboard
    2. checkbox: “disable dashboard’s Switch Profile functionality”
    3. click the Update Options button below

    If you had sought support for this before posting a negative review, you might have saved yourself going and finding another plugin AND the plugin from getting a rock-bottom review in the process.

    Food for thought.

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