Detailed traffic view with Stats on WordPress!
People love their stats. On WordPress.com, the most popular page in the dashboard after the home page is blog stats. Now we have a plugin that allows us to get WordPress.com stats no matter where we host our blog.
One of the biggest complaints they heared when people switched to hosting their own blog is that they miss the stats system. (The others are that they miss the traffic from the community, tags, avatars, and comment tracking.) There are lots of stats plugins available for WordPress.org, but many of them slow down the site because they’re writing to a DataBase or they show generic website stats that aren’t tailored for blogs.
They started trying to figure out a way that we could offer our stats to self-hosted WordPress.org bloggers while still keeping the system super-flexible and fast, and the new plugin is the result of quite a bit of work by their stats guru Andy. Installing the plugin is simply a matter of dropping it in your plugins directory and putting in your WordPress.com API key, then your stats will start showing up within minutes.
The way the system is set up, we’re going to be able to roll out new features. They also have some new things in mind for the stats interface that will impact everyone, like access to more historical data and an API for mashing up traffic data with other things.
Anyway, be sure to try the plugin out and let them know what you think. It should only take a minute or two to install, and works fine with any other stats systems you may already be running.
Here are 10 more very helpful tools for running stats tracking in WordPress:
Google Analytics
Google Analyticator - Allows you to set up the tracking code by simply knowing your tracking code number. Can also disable tracking for admins, set up additional codes and more.
Google Analytics for WordPress - Allows you to set the extensions of downloadable files you want tracked, can also set different prefixes for different types of tracking.
WordPress Google Analytics Plugin - Can set it to not log anything done in the admin area, record 404s, keep track of searches and more.
Other Metric Packages
CyStats - Besides all of the normal stats, CyStats will also provide you with most viewed tags, top referring sites, multiple languages and more.
Generic Stats - Allows you to enter any stats program tracking code you’d like and define where it should appear in your pages without having to go and edit your template.
Piwik Analytics - Based on the Google Analytics plugin, the Piwik Analytics add-on will let you add the Piwik code to your site and define what it tracks.
Quantcast Quantifier - Allows you to add Quantcast statistics to your site without any template editing.
WassUp - A stats package updated in real time that can even show you who is online at that time and reading your site.
WordPress Blog Stats Plugin - A plugin to help you easily add the W3Counter to your WordPress blog, and view the stats in your admin section.
WP-phpMyVisites - Uses the open source Piwik analytics system to track your visitors, pages viewed, software used and more.
Give yourself a better view of your site dynamics & make your strategic movements to enlarge your audience!!
