User stats for your church website
6 May 2007The WordPress.com state package is now available for all wordpress blogs as a plugin. And the stats that are collected are displayed in the same place as the WordPress.com blog(s) that you have. You can get the plugin from WordPress.org
WordPress.com statistics are certainly not as sophisticated as some packages (such as Google Analytics), but they are easy and quick to understand. Also, it will not interfere with other statistics packages, such as Mint, Google Analytics, and Statcounter.
And for people like me with a church website on WordPress.org and another blog (this blog) on WordPress.com, it is very convenient to have the statistics in the same place.
I’m very excited about this stats package, personally. I think it’s the neatest thing since buttered cats, really.
I hate plugins that bloat the database and slow the site down, and I’m always looking for the better stats package. I like Google analytics, but, truly, it is information overload and a bear to navigate. Something like this, which I’ve installed already and have looked at the reports, is very easy to use, doesn’t slow my site down, and provides useful metrics out of the box. Well, there’s not box, really, but, still …
You or your readers might be interested in a post I wrote about this and a few metrics tools I recommend:
“Blog Stats: Get your info-jones on with weblog traffic metrics”
Regards,
Rich
BlogRodent
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As an alternative for Google Analytics I would recommend the new w3Counter: http://beta.w3counter.com
Thanks for that it looks interesting, I will try it out.
However for the free version it does have the 2500 pageview per day limit which could be a problem for some.