Content Performance Analyzer – GA4 & Search Console Content Audit

Changelog

1.5.1

• Added a one-time review request that appears only after the audit has delivered real results — at least five pages analyzed and fix plans written — and only on the plugin’s own screens. Answering or declining silences it permanently, and it shares its once-only state with the existing post-recovery ask

1.5.0

• Integrated the current Freemius WordPress SDK for Pro licensing, trials, in-dashboard checkout, and paid updates
• Added optional hosted AI for active Pro licenses, with no OpenAI, Groq, or Gemini key required and a visible monthly allowance
• Added page-specific ready-to-use drafts for titles, meta descriptions, headings, FAQ answers, quotable passages, and internal-link suggestions
• Added complete 600–900 word content generation into a separate WordPress draft; the live page is never overwritten
• Kept problem discovery and clear recommendations free: GA4/GSC analysis, decay diagnosis, AEO checks, question gaps, exports, recovery tracking, and BYOK AI remain available without Pro
• Pro replaces the provider picker and API key fields with a single hosted-AI panel showing the remaining monthly allowance — nothing to configure
• Pro raises the hand-picked PageSpeed selection from 15 pages to 30
• Pro includes competitor gap analysis with no Serper key — 600 searches a month through the hosted service, with a personal key still taking precedence
• Deleting the leftover free copy after upgrading to Pro no longer removes your data — uninstall cleanup now runs through the licensing SDK, which skips it while either copy is still active
• Organized the page-plan modal into tabs, so a long recommendation set is scannable instead of one continuous column
• Reads an existing title and meta description from Rank Math, Yoast, SEO Press, or All in One SEO before reporting either as missing

1.4.7

• Fixed AI recommendations being cut off mid-word
• The sync banner now reports the whole job and turns green only when data collection and AI have both finished
• Added warnings when Search Console returns no data, page content cannot be read, or scheduled work has stalled
• Flags copy that presents an earlier year as current, while leaving genuine historical references alone
• A page marked as fixed with no recorded traffic now reads “waiting for traffic data” instead of “no lift”
• Recovery verdicts also run on the daily cron, and deactivation clears three previously orphaned scheduled tasks

1.4.6

• Recovery tracking: mark a page as fixed from the insights table and the plugin records the moment’s clicks, views, and pre-decay peak, then judges the fix after 28 days — Recovered (back near its peak), Improving (clearly above the pre-fix level), or No lift (final at day 60). Verdicts average whole weeks from the local snapshot history, so one good day cannot fake a recovery
• One-click refresh drafts: create a draft copy of any page — content, categories, tags, and featured image — with the page’s diagnosis and AI fix plan embedded at the top as an editorial note. The live page is never touched, and repeat clicks reopen the same draft instead of stacking duplicates
• Dashboard widget: the top priority pages (worst decay first, ranked by clicks lost) and a summary of how your applied fixes are performing, on the main WordPress dashboard
• New Age column in the insights table shows time since each page’s last update, highlighting pages untouched for over 18 months
• Verdict notices: when a fix you marked crosses to Recovered, Improving, or its final no-lift verdict, a dashboard notice tells you — no need to keep checking the table. Opening Content Insights clears it
• A one-time review ask appears with your first Recovered verdict — the moment the plugin has actually proven a fix worked. One click to dismiss forever; it never asks again either way
• The homepage now resolves to an editable post in the insights table when a static front page is set

1.4.5

• Added a local weekly per-page performance snapshot data layer.
• Captures traffic, flags, decay type, and AEO score after data refreshes, at most once per day.
• Keeps data on the site, retains 78 weeks of history, and removes snapshot data on uninstall; no settings or external calls were added.

1.4.4

• Analysis is no longer “done” with gaps: flagged pages the AI run could not finish now fill in automatically in the background, one page every couple of minutes
• The queue paces itself under free-tier limits, backs off when rate-limited, skips pages that cannot fit even after compression, and stops with a clear message on configuration errors
• The insights page shows calm automatic progress with the next attempt time while leaving the existing manual retry available

1.4.3

• Oversized AI requests now recover automatically: when a content-heavy page produces a request bigger than the provider’s token budget or context window (for example Groq’s free-tier 8,000 tokens per minute), the plugin retries once with a compressed payload — trimmed body text, no competitor excerpts — instead of failing the page. All metrics and the decay diagnosis stay in the request, so recommendations remain grounded
• The insights page no longer shows an endless “Processing…” spinner when nothing is running: the spinner now appears only while work is genuinely in flight, and flagged pages left without AI suggestions after a failed or rate-limited run get an honest notice explaining what happened and pointing to the Retry button
• Sites without an AI key configured now see clear guidance on flagged pages instead of a permanent processing state

1.4.2

• Clearer non-search diagnosis: when a page had real GA4 traffic but almost no Google search clicks and dropped, the plugin now says the drop came from another channel (direct, email, social, referral, or internal links) and points to the GA4 channel breakdown — instead of the vague “not enough Search Console history, re-check next run”
• Pages with a search footprint but negligible clicks are classified as a non-search drop with a channel-breakdown fix; pages with no search footprint at all get a cautious hypothesis that also suggests confirming the page is indexed
• Reflects a real distinction: GA4 views count every channel, while Search Console clicks count only Google organic search — a page can have high views and near-zero search clicks
• Includes the homepage and per-page metric collection fixes: host-aware Search Console paths so subdomains no longer overwrite the homepage row, GA4 ordering so top pages are never truncated out, and targeted recovery for any analyzed URL the bulk pull missed
• CSV export now includes the full AI recommendation set (SEO, AEO, GEO, engagement, measurement plan), model used, decay type and evidence, AEO readiness score, AI referral sessions, and inbound internal link counts
• Added a link to the plugin privacy policy on the settings screen

1.4.1

• Seasonality control: every demand-decay call is checked against the same 30-day window one year ago in Search Console. A drop that matches last year’s numbers is diagnosed “Seasonal pattern (expected)” — shown in green, never flagged, and the AI is told no action is needed
• Technical/indexing detection: impressions collapsing to near zero is diagnosed as an indexing problem, not demand decay. The live-page scrape confirms it — a noindex meta tag or a canonical pointing at a different URL upgrades the diagnosis to confirmed with the exact cause named
• Tracking-break detection: GA4 views collapsing to near zero while Search Console still records clicks is diagnosed as a broken GA4 tag, not a traffic loss — check the tag before touching the content
• AI Overview confirmation: the live SERP check now detects Google AI Overviews in addition to answer boxes when confirming zero-click capture
• noindex tags and canonical mismatches now appear in every page’s content issues list, whether or not traffic dropped
• AI recommendations updated for all three new diagnosis types: technical issues lead with the indexing fix, tracking breaks lead with the tag check, and seasonal dips get no busywork
• Cleaner settings: the legacy OAuth Client ID/Secret fields are hidden now that Connect with Google is one click (they still appear for sites already using their own credentials), and PageSpeed options only show while the feature is enabled

1.4.0

• Decay-type diagnosis: every traffic drop is classified from real period deltas — ranking decay (position slid), zero-click capture (still ranking, SERP answers before the click), demand decay (topic losing searches), or a non-search drop (organic healthy, look at other channels) — with the evidence and the matching fix shown on each page
• Self-inflicted decay detection: if a page was edited inside the drop window, the diagnosis warns to compare the previous revision before assuming natural decay — only possible from inside WordPress
• 6-month click trends: each page’s clicks are tracked across six 28-day periods to expose sustained declines and distance from peak, not just one week-over-week dip
• Keyword cannibalization detection: queries where two or more of your own pages split clicks over the last 90 days, listed per page with positions, so you can consolidate instead of rewriting
• Live SERP confirmation (optional, with a Serper key): confirms zero-click capture when an answer box sits above your result, and flags intent drift when the top 10 shifts to video, forum, or commerce formats
• Orphan-page detection: pages no other content links to are flagged, with an editorial inbound-link count per page (menus and widgets excluded)
• New-issue alerts: after any scan — including the daily automatic one — a dashboard notice lists pages that were healthy last run and are flagged now
• AI recommendations now match the fix to the diagnosed decay type: no more content-refresh advice for pages whose topic lost demand, and non-search drops are never framed as SEO problems
• Previous-period clicks, position, and engagement rate are now collected and shown alongside impressions, completing the period-over-period picture
• Fixed: decay flag compared a page against the wrong page’s history in one code path; AI referral session counts could drop out of the insights table after a re-sync

1.3.0

• AEO readiness score: every page rated 0-100 on answer-engine quotability with a named pass/fail checklist (question headings, direct answers, structured data, lists, freshness)
• Question gaps: Search Console queries you rank for (positions 2-20) that no page heading answers — each a featured-snippet and AI-answer opportunity
• One-click answer blocks: AI writes a concise answer grounded in the page’s own content, appends it as a Q&A block, and adds FAQPage schema (skipped if the page already has one)
• AI referral tracking: sessions arriving from ChatGPT, Perplexity, Copilot, Gemini, and Claude shown per page
• Optional llms.txt: a machine-readable site guide for AI crawlers, with automatic conflict detection if one already exists
• Choose your exact AI model per provider from a dropdown with cost hints, or leave it automatic; every AI action now shows which model produced it
• OpenAI automatic mode upgraded to the flagship model with graceful fallbacks; gpt-4o-mini retired
• Requests adapt automatically to newer OpenAI model requirements (max_completion_tokens, fixed temperature) and to restricted-project model allowlists
• Rate-limit resilience: no more retry cascades that burn free-tier quotas, partial results are saved with honest progress messages, and Gemini runs are paced automatically
• AI errors now name every model that failed and why, instead of only the last one
• Sharper recommendations: prompts require citing the page’s actual data and concrete deliverables, and SEO/AEO/GEO fields are precisely defined (GEO now means generative-engine visibility, not local SEO)
• Live search on both page pickers; select-all applies to search results; the URL import picker loads automatically
• URL Status table refreshes automatically when background scans finish
• Groq is now the recommended free provider based on output-quality testing; status labels reflect the active provider

1.2.0

• One-click “Connect with Google” — sign in and pick your account, no Google Cloud project or OAuth credentials needed (your own credentials still work as an advanced option)
• GA4 property and Search Console site selection via dropdowns loaded from your connected account, replacing hand-typed IDs
• One-click page import: load every published page and post with checkboxes and select-all, instead of pasting URLs
• Content-only mode: fresh installs can scan for content issues before connecting anything, with a guided getting-started flow
• AI alt text fixes: see exactly which images lack alt text, then generate and apply alt text in one click — vision-based on OpenAI and Gemini, with library and page content both updated and existing alt text never overwritten
• Google Gemini added as an AI provider with a generous free tier, alongside OpenAI and Groq
• PageSpeed Insights now works without an API key through a free hosted service — the API key field is gone entirely
• Pick exactly which pages get PageSpeed analysis with a checkbox list (up to 15), or leave it automatic
• AI responses now use enforced JSON output for more reliable recommendations across all providers
• API key fields warn when the key format doesn’t match the selected provider
• Image counts no longer double-count on sites using lazy-loading plugins

1.1.2

• Expired or revoked Google connections now show a clear reconnect notice on plugin pages instead of silently reporting zero GA4 and Search Console data
• OAuth failure logs now include Google’s error code (for example invalid_grant) for faster diagnosis
• Fixed the analysis waiting banner staying visible indefinitely when pages in good standing were present

1.1.1

• Removed the Freemius integration and its activation opt-in screen for a simpler, self-contained setup
• Added a standalone uninstall routine that fully cleans up options, scheduled tasks, and plugin data on deletion

1.1.0

• All features are now fully free — removed license requirement and premium gating
• Data collection, batch processing, AI suggestions, internal links, and smart interlinking work without activation
• Conversions now use GA4 key events by default, with form_submit fallback and an optional custom event list
• PageSpeed analysis is now selective (flagged and high-traffic pages) instead of every URL on every scan
• Daily automatic rescan is now opt-in for new installs to protect your API quotas
• Safer smart interlinking: links are only inserted on exact anchor matches, never inside HTML tags or existing links
• Fixed applied interlinks being dropped on save in some Gutenberg blocks
• Data collection now reports API failures instead of showing success with missing data
• Off-peak scheduling defaults to the site timezone
• Security and cleanup: removed debug endpoints and dead code, hardened CSV export, moved inline scripts and styles to enqueued assets

1.0.0

• Progressive content analysis – analyzes all pages without artificial limits
• Smart waiting banner with realistic time estimates and auto-refresh
• Priority-based processing – flagged pages analyzed first for faster AI suggestions
• Intelligent AI timing – AI waits for complete content data for optimal recommendations
• Plugin page integration – direct Settings and View Insights links
• 3x performance improvement – reduced from 15.5s to ~3s average per page
• Dynamic batch sizing (6-12 pages) based on priorities and system performance
• Dynamic timeout prediction with 75-second safety buffer prevents all timeouts
• Real-time progress tracking with detailed status updates
• Enhanced user experience with transparent progress communication

Previous Version

• Complete rewrite with modular architecture
• Added automatic keyword analysis and optimization suggestions
• Implemented AI suggestion expiry system
• Enhanced dashboard with better UX
• Batch URL upload and retry/rescan features
• WordPress coding standards compliance