WordPress Releases Stats Plugin
Looking for a streamlined and simple way to monitor traffic on your WordPress blog? Look no further - WordPress has released their stats tool that is used on WordPress.com, as a plugin. That means you don’t have to leave your WordPress admin panel to see how your blog is doing traffic-wise. Everything is taken care of by the WordPress servers so you don’t have to worry about taxing your server. Andy has some of the more interesting details about how this all works. It pretty much revolves around their ubiquitous smiley image.
This is great news for self-hosted bloggers. While Google Analytics is free, the interface is terrible. Mint costs money but delivers useful stats in an easy to understand interface. Now bloggers who don’t have enough for Mint have a great alternative.
I think Mint is well worth the $30. A tool that helps you understand where your visitors are coming from, what browser they’re using presented in a pretty and easy-to-interpret interface is priceless.
I check my Mint stats practically almost everyday. It does require your own processing power, which is one major downside. And the price, of course.
Although this tracks stats for my entire site (not just my blog) I use AwStats. It’s free, comes installed on my server already, and is very easy to use and looks nice (not as good as Mint, but still nice). I haven’t been convinced to switch to Mint and I probably won’t switch over to this WP stats program either but new offereings are always appreciated. On a sidenote slightly, what are the advantages of Mint over AwStats that make it worth 30 bucks. I might be interested in getting it.
Paul,
Not realted to this post, but I just wanted to say I really like the new position of the twitter and stats boxes. Much better!
I’ve been using mint for well over a year and its hands down the best stats tool I’ve used. But when you have 4-5 sites, it does start to get expensive. This is definitely a great alternative :-)
Thanks for the info Paul. This looks really great.
Been using this since last night, and its really good. I had been using GoogleStats, but to be honest, there is more information there than you really need and you get lost trying to find the info.
No idea where the image is hidden on my site though, I can’t find it anywhere.
Some of you may like to try Pmetrics from the guys at Performancing. It’s pretty good, and it’s free.
I also received an invite to try out the Beta Reinvigorate, and so far I think it’s pretty excellent.
So, when you click Blog Stats, it still takes you to wordpress.com. Did I do something wrong?
Yeah I’ve read that post… but the same thing is happening to me, it won’t go past the API page, if I put the API in and then hit save, it just reloads the page without the API key in the little box… and if I hit the button that says “use this key” it just reloads the page and does nothing… I’m confused… and I’ve already uninstalled and reinstalled the plugin several times…
Thanks for the info. Can’t wait to try it out. :)
I love WP, but this stats package gives me figures which are unrecognizeable when compared to any other stats package. Am I the only one who thinks this package is not collecting data correctly?
I’ve been playing alot with the built in wordpress stats plugin lately. I love it, althought there is one thing which I think can be improved.
Once I click to view my site stats it takes me to my dashboard on wordpress.com and away from my site. Now I dont so much mind this, but just give me a link in the top left corner which points back to my homepage.
If they could fix this I think it could be really great
Been using this for a week or so now and its not really doing to well :(
Not as good as Google Analytics IMHO.