We all like to know who’s been reading our stuff, so here are a couple of methods that you can use to view your web statistics.
Google Analytics
Yes, even though you don’t have control over the template in our wordpress MU installation, you can still insert your own google analytics code.
In the ‘Presentation’ tab of the admin interface, select the ‘Widgets’ sub-tab and use a text widget to contain your GA code. Of course, the GA code is invisible, so you can put other stuff in the text widget too.
Firestats
Firestats is a plugin which we’re experimenting with. There is NO guarantee that we will continue to make it available if it causes problems, but for now, it’s a convenient tool for gathering and viewing stats.
In your wp-admin, under the Plugins tab, activate Firestats. Then, in the Dashboard tab, you’ll find a sub-tab that allows you to view and configure Firestats. Mostly, you don’t have to change anything.
If you want to advertise your stats, there’s a neat little widget you can use to display stats and popular posts.
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Any chance we could have the FeedBurner FeedSmith plugin? It would be helpful to be able to see how many people are subscribing/reading via RSS, and what sort of traffic the feeds are generating to other parts of our web presence.
PS: Our Google Analytics monitoring is working nicely — thanks for the tip about using a widget as an SSI to contain the javascript code
Like mlr, could we have the FeedBurner FeedSmith plugin also? Would love to see how many
are reading/subscribing, thanks.
I would highly recommend Google Analytics because they store your data on a long term basis and you can compare historical data with current performance of your website. The only issue is that Google Analytics doesn’t pick up on all visistors and reports 10-15% less visitors.
Yes, google analytics is one of the best tracking tools on the market.
there are some problems but its the best
Don’t know much about firestats but google analytics will have most of the tools you need to track the performance of the site. Especially visitors geographic location, visitor trending and whats really cool is that it will differentiate against total visitors and unique visitors. Best of all it’s free.
Google analytics has everything you need in a paid analytic software. The only down side is that you don’t know what google will do with the information.
wp-stat is another great tool to gather your Blog statistics. It’s compatible with the latest release (2.8.2) of wordpress
I second the request for FeedSmith. Google Analytics is great, and we’re using it successfully at http://bit.ly/3aXUt. Nonetheless, this doesn’t appear to track RSS hits, which I believe constitute the majority of our blog traffic.