Checking WordPress Stats In The Dashboard
Statistics for websites can be helpful to give some insight as to what you are doing right, and what your readers like about your site. WordPress is no different and if you have the WordPress Stats plugin installed you can see a quick snapshot of your WordPress blogs stats on your blogs main dashboard.
The WordPress stats are visible in version 2.7 near the bottom of the main dashboard. To see these stats you would need the WordPress.com Stats plugin and an API key to use it. If you don’t have a WordPress.com API key getting one can be confusing. Even if your WordPress blog is self-hosted you would still need to create an account on WordPress.com to get an API key to use on your self-hosted WordPress blog. I have a few posts here to explain this process and clear up all the confusion that ensues when trying to get a WordPress API key.
How To Get A WordPress API Key
WordPress API Key Global Dashboard Confusion
So what can you actually do with these stats? I like to use them to see the blogs traffic, what the search engines are doing for me and to see the top posts on the blog. But how helpful are these stats? Well they can give you an idea of what you are doing right, but not much help for what you are doing wrong (unless you have no action at all). This post isn’t really a WordPress guide or a How-To, so what you do with these stats is up to you. But after looking at all the views some of my posts are getting now I have few ideas of what posts to tweak if I wanted to try to make a few more dollars!
Checking your WordPress stats can give you an insight to what you are doing right, and help you figure out what your the readers are looking for.
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The wordpress stats are nice and simple. They are not as detailed as something like Google analytics but I do also follow some of my blogs using the WordPress stats, mainly because they are right there when I am looking at the blog.
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Very cool plugin! I will have to try it on my WordPress blog!
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I generally use statcounter becuase I am so used to it but I will definately download this wordpress plugin.
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Finally I found out how to get an API key! I’ve wanted WP Stats and haven’t found on the net what they are,,,
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The old updating panel was cool. the new one is good but it is not as good as the old one.
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Great link! I’m just getting my head around WordPress. Tracking visitors is a must for my next project.
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thanks bro .. have tried this pluging .. really cool ..
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This is a great plugin. Till now I was using the google analytics for getting the stats
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I like the WP stats…fairly accurate i believe.
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In addition to this plugin, there is another one one I’ve had great success with, called StatPress.
It does a pretty good job and has one feature called “spy” that gives me additional info on product/affiliate links that users click on. (There are some limitations to this, you’ll have to test it on your own site)
It provides info on visitors, spiders, search keywords, feeds, browsers etc.
Don’t install and run both however, just one OR the other.
Just another option to play around with….
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Great post, explained really well and I could really understand. Thank you
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Hi,finally i am busy in surfing with net for my blog or website. I want to collect a themes or ideas for my blog. Thanks for the useful information and also soon, i will come here to see the development. thanks for usefull wordpress tips..
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I’m new to all this, so forgive me if this is elementary. I am confused: On one day I see 34 “views” (in the graph), and a total of 7 “Views” (for 6 posts) under “Top Posts and Pages”; the next day, I have 125 views (in the graph), and only 1 View in Top Posts (actual statistics). How do I interpret this? In other words, what exactly does “View” mean in the graph vs. in Top Posts? Thanks.
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Jeff Replied:
May 1st, 2009 at 12:54 pm
Don’t know, sorry I didn’t write the Stats plugin.
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Check out WP-Stats-Dashboard, displays all stats in dashboard widgets directly. No more logging in.
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-stats-dashboard/
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This is a very helpful plugin, anyway, can you post a review comparing this plugin and the Google analytics?
Thanks. I really really love your posts.
Your greatest fan,
PinoyEngine
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This Plug-In is really great. Stats and analysis are the tow most important pre requisite to take wise decisions. After analyzing the stats properly one can make a proper action plane of to do things. These stats are also useful to optimize posts that are not performing good.
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Wordpress has improved it’s dashboard. It’s quick load and easy to access.
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I have already checked your Word Press and I accept with you that stats can give me an insight to what we are doing right, and help me figure out what the readers are looking for.Thanks and carry on with this kind of writing.
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