What is Google Site Kit?
Analyzing your site is an important aspect of growing your audience and your customer base. The statistics you need for this range from your site’s SEO scores to how fast your pages load. Google provides web creators with a wide range of tools used to collect and analyze this data, but sometimes it’s hard to keep track of all this information and where it’s coming from.
To make life easier for WordPress site owners, Google developed the Site Kit plugin which connects all these tools and displays the information you need in your WP Admin.
Set up Google Site Kit
This is comprised of several steps:
- Install and activate the Site Kit
- Set up Site Kit
Activate Google Site Kit
Elementor Hosting sites come with the Google Site Kit plugin preinstalled, helping you get started on the way to growing your site.
To access the Google Site Kit:
- Go to WP Admin.
- Click Site Kit.
Google Site Kit opens.
[Note: If Site Kit does not appear in your WP Admin, you may have to install it manually. For details about finding and installing WordPress plugins, see Install WordPress plugins.
Set up Google Site Kit
The plugin will guide you through the setup steps, which include::
- (optional) Connecting your site to Google Analytics.
- Signing in to your Google account.
- Verifying your site ownership.
- Allowing Site Kit to display your site data.
- Set up your console.
- Set up Google Analytics.
After completing these steps, when you access Site Kit from WP Admin, a dashboard appears displaying a complete analysis of your site on one screen.
For more information about installing and setting up Google Site Kit, see the Google Site Kit installation guide.
For complete documentation, including a Troubleshooting guide, see the Google Site Kit documentation.