If you’re serious about your website then you either are already gathering statistics on your site’s traffic or you wish you were. If WordPress is your publishing platform of choice here are a couple WordPress plugin options I use which will give you some great results with little effort.
The first option, which I’ve been using since I started Life After Coffee is Casey Bisson’s bsuite plugin. This plugin is what puts the Top Stories in my sidebar as well as handling my tagging, showing read counts at the bottom of stories, and much more.
The bsuite plugin gives you lots of options and a comprehensive report of reads on top stories and your top days for reads. Initial setup is easy with lots of options for more advanced configuration.
Google Analytics and Google Analyticator
If you haven’t already got a Google Analytics account you’ll have to get in line. As of the time of this writing they are not allowing new accounts but you can sign up to be notified when they open up.
Once you’ve got an Analytics account you need to post a few lines of Java code into the head of your pages. This is where Google Analyticator from cavemonkey50.com comes in. This plugin will automatically insert the Analytics code in all the right places.
Analiticator setup is straight forward with some nice options. It sets up like most other WordPress plugins then all you need to do is activate it and enter your Analytics UID (provided by Google.) Most importantly, since Analyticator is a plugin it continues to work if you change themes to another plugin compatible theme (which would not be the case if you manually inserted the code.)
Give FireStats at try.
it doesn’t give your traffic information to anyone, and its can’t be any easier to install.
Checkout performancing metrics (www.performancing.com). It’s a very nice blog metrics service.
try this one. Is a plugin for wordpress:
http://www.deltablog.com/2005/10/05/wordpress-plugin-popstats/
you can download here:
http://www.deltablog.com/files/recursos/wp-popstats.zip
Hi! Why I can’t fill my info in profile? Can somebody help me?
My login is Kisakookoo!
Hello, I need some help with the bstats plugin.
All I need to know is how to display:
Incoming searches for “this post”
So far I only managed to display all incomming searchterms for ‘a period of time’ with the bsuite_recentrefs funtion.
pls help, I dont get an answer on maisonbisson
Thanks!
Jon,
I’ve finally released a new version of bsuite with a bunch of bugfixes. Importantly, it also lays the groundwork to transition to bsuite3, a complete re-architecting of the plugin.
http://maisonbisson.com/blog/post/11613/