Hello !
I'm basically a user who had pushed out of my view Google Analytics, to use Open Source solutions (that's the base) such as Matomo (formerly Piwik), and then I tested Umami, very easy to use and lighter. ✨
But recently, I asked myself the question again, and I couldn't find a clear answer.
Does removing Google Analytics from my websites have an impact on ranking and SEO?
Feel free to share with us posts, documentations and latest information about that. Thanks 👍🏼
Edit of the 11 january :
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If you don't have analytics probably the site ranks a bit better due to better performance.
You'll lose insights and user base knowledge through.
Using a competitor's tool should rank the same, assuming both have the same impact (check with Lighthouse plugin for Chrome).
Ok clear !
I can only think of two ways removing GA could affect your ranking:
Yeah I see 👍😄
Nope, i doesn't affect your SEO. However it affects your performance score.
When we remove or add GA?
Removing GA may improve your performance score as you browser won't have to download and execute GA script when user visits your website.
Yeah seems logic! Thanks!
I wouldn't think that using or not using Google Analytics or any of the alternatives would affect SEO and ranking simply by having it installed on the site. If you are using the data from Google Analytics, etc to optimize content in some way, then that can certainly affect SEO and ranking. So I would think it would come down to quality of data collected by the analytics tool and what you do with it that matters.
I removed Google Analytics from my site years ago when the GDPR came about. I rarely looked at it anyway, so to avoid annoying cookie notices, I removed it. It certainly wasn't doing anything for ranking if I was ignoring it.
Okay, it's mostly the ownership side that makes me think it can be penalizing.
Google is the most used search engine at the moment, and has been for years. It would be a shame to be penalized on it because I use another tool than theirs.
Oh, I see. What if they penalize those that use a competitor? Not sure if there is a good way to answer that.
It remains a little mystery ! Thanks for your comments ! ✨
Removing GA definately speeds things up and avoids Cookies.
I wrote a quickie cookie free javascript app to save some Geo variables to an AWS S3 bucket. I use a Lambda function to pass Geo variables to my json file saved in S3.
click here for more
dev.to/rickdelpo1/removing-google-...
Google Analytics can provide valuable insights and data about your website's traffic and user behavior, it is possible that removing it could have unintended consequences. Do you think that Google uses data from Google Analytics as a ranking factor? How might removing this tool affect your website's visibility and search engine optimization efforts? What are the pros and cons of using or not using Google Analytics, and how do you weigh these considerations in your own decision-making process?
That are great questions!
I know that removing Google Analytics does not affect search rankings.
For more details in the Beginner's Guide to Google Optimization:
I would appreciate it if you could refer to my blog.
For your information, you need to use the translation function from Chrome to English.
Google Search Optimization Beginner's Guide
Thanks!
personal experience is telling me that it will affect the ranking.
I did two blogs to post two same contents: 1. blogspot 2. Wordpress
It turned out blogspot gave better search result but Wordpress not so good.
You can do a a test. similar domain name. exactly same web design structure and content. then try to see the ranking with and without.
But isn't about WordPress or other CMS, just Google Analytics. And domain names haven't an impact to the ranking
Blogspot was google. And i remember I used google analytics for blogspot. And I didn’t install any GA plugin or add any code for wordpress. I meant to make almost two identical website, one with GA and one without. Test it out.
Oh okay I understand