{"id":10,"date":"2006-09-10T22:16:49","date_gmt":"2006-09-10T14:16:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/2006\/09\/10\/wordpress-statistics-plugins\/"},"modified":"2010-06-25T11:55:00","modified_gmt":"2010-06-25T03:55:00","slug":"wordpress-statistics-plugins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/2006\/09\/10\/wordpress-statistics-plugins\/","title":{"rendered":"WordPress statistics plugins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Coming from using <a href=\"http:\/\/b2evolution.net\/\">b2evo<\/a> for blogging at <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.vislab.usyd.edu.au\/\">ViSLAB<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.onetwenty.org\/blogs\/\">OneTwenty<\/a>, I was a little disappointed that <a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.org\/\">WordPress<\/a> (unlike b2evo) doesn&#8217;t have any built-in statistics aggregration or visualisation.<\/p>\n<p>Since I&#8217;m the curious sort (and I like to see if people are actually reading my blog posts), I spent a bit of time looking into WordPress statistics plugins. Unfortunately there doesn&#8217;t seem to be any free &#8220;standard&#8221; plugin the everyone uses, so I had to conduct my own review.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/analytics\/\">Google Analytics<\/a> seems to be popular and I saw a few WordPress plugins that integrate the service, but I don&#8217;t really want to use external statistics tracking. For internal statistics tracking, I found a few tools that looked promising:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/laitsas.com\/wordpress\/28\/lightstats\/\">Lightstats<\/a> looked good, but I wanted cold numbers rather than fancy graphics. I was also a little concerned about the load it might put on this (old, old) server.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.symbolengine.com\/index.php\/2006\/07\/13\/quickstats_v1\/\">Quickstats<\/a> seemed tidy and popular, but a little too simplistic for me.<\/li>\n<li>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/firefang.net\/english\/firestats\">Firestats<\/a> looked rather impressive and I did go to the trouble (not much) of installing it and checking it out. It worked without a hitch despite the highly visible &#8220;this is beta software; use at own risk!&#8221; warning on the homepage.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/andersdrengen.dk\/projects\/counterize\/\">Counterize<\/a> is something I came across while installing Firestats. (Firestats asked if there was pre-existing counterize data it could import). Looks good, but I didn&#8217;t try it out because I finally settled on&#8230;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.duechiacchiere.it\/wp-slimstat\/\">WP-SlimStat<\/a>! It looked great, but I initially had trouble installing it on WordPress 2.0. It actually broke the rest of the blog when enabled! According to various <a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/topic\/72270\">forum posts<\/a>, this seemed to be a common problem. I found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.deepjiveinterests.com\/2006\/07\/22\/blogging-metrics-adventures-with-slimstat\/\">this post<\/a> on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.deepjiveinterests.com\/\">deep jive interests<\/a> that resolved the problem and it now runs fine (and <em>looks great<\/em>!)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;m happy with WP-SlimStat thus far. It integrates <a href=\"http:\/\/wettone.com\/code\/slimstat\">SlimStat<\/a> which is based on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shauninman.com\/plete\/shortstat\/\">ShortStat<\/a>, which is the same code that a popular <em>commercial<\/em> statistics package, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.haveamint.com\/\">Mint<\/a>, is based on. (All this is mentioned in the deep jive article I mentioned before).<\/p>\n<p>I hope this helps someone else looking for a decent statistics package for WordPress. If you find something better, please let me know and I will add it to this list!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Coming from using b2evo for blogging at ViSLAB and OneTwenty, I was a little disappointed that WordPress (unlike b2evo) doesn&#8217;t have any built-in statistics aggregration or visualisation. 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