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WordPress Stats
Filed under: Asides | Tags: | May 7th, 2007
On Saturday night (because that’s how we roll) we launched WordPress.com stats plugin for WordPress.org bloggers, and it’s gone incredibly well so far. We’re coming up on our first full weekday since launch, it’s running on 2,750 blogs already and tracked about a million 1.3 million pageviews today. A few bugs popped up, of course, but that’s life in software. (16)
Jeremy Ricketts | May 7th, 2007 @ 7:47 pm | Reply
sheesh finally! This was some pretty big WP news and I was wondering when you’d mention it! hehe. Oh no, I just realized I might be a little too addicted to my feed reader.
Jim | May 7th, 2007 @ 8:08 pm | Reply
I, for one, am liking it. Takes a huge load off my site and serves up some interesting figures. I have to say, though, that it’s tracked the lowest numbers of all stats plugins I’ve tried so far. Still not really sure how these things work.
Randy Peterman | May 7th, 2007 @ 8:38 pm | Reply
Its very cool to have this functionality. Is there an API planned for us to plug into for various things?
QZoners | May 7th, 2007 @ 8:58 pm | Reply
Thanks for your information. I will try it ASAP
GammaBlog | May 8th, 2007 @ 4:55 am | Reply
I’m really enjoying seeing these stats for my site. Thanks.
tyler | May 8th, 2007 @ 6:49 am | Reply
Loving the new plugin Matt. It’s nice being able to use the same metrics on my self hosted blog as I use on wordpress.com. Although, I rarely use my wordpress.com blog anymore, I still got very used to the stats system when I was making heavy use of it.
danithew | May 8th, 2007 @ 7:07 am | Reply
Awesome. I’m looking forward to seeing how this works on my personal blog. Thanks for making this available like this.
j_aroche | May 8th, 2007 @ 8:48 am | Reply
Very nice job guys
Daniel Gattermann | May 8th, 2007 @ 9:00 am | Reply
The stats are really nice and a good add-on to Google Analytics. Well done!
One comment though: my theme has a background image that goes all the way to the sites bottom. The smiley (even with the CSS suggested in the plugin FAQ) adds a blank line below all my pages. My solution was to change the hook to wp_meta and move this hook to the bottom of the theme’s meta list. Maybe you can rethink the integration technique.
David Peyton | May 8th, 2007 @ 9:33 am | Reply
I’m using it and it’s really great! Thanks Matt!
Matt | May 8th, 2007 @ 12:19 pm | Reply
Daniel, you can also hide the image using the CSS from the FAQ.
We’ll be talking about the API soonish.
Daniel Gattermann | May 8th, 2007 @ 12:25 pm | Reply
Matt, the CSS hides the image but the space the image occupies isn’t freed.
I’m looking forward to the API.
David Russell | May 8th, 2007 @ 2:55 pm | Reply
Matt, I think it’s great that things like this are being offered to users of Wordpress (as opposed to Wordpress.com) - Akismet alone shows that such plugins are often valued. However I question the privacy implications of using an invisible ‘web bug’ to obtain the stats.
Besides that, anyone whose hosting package is so limited that it doesn’t include a more detailed stats system than this (e.g. the _free_ AWstats) should probably switch hosts anyway.
Oluniyi David Ajao | May 8th, 2007 @ 4:03 pm | Reply
I downloaded and installed the plugin just yesterday and it worked smoothly for me. One downside though is that it doesn’t display the countries most visitors are coming from - unlike Google Analytics or other website traffic statistics software.
Dave Butler | May 14th, 2007 @ 10:58 am | Reply
matt, thanks for the news. Honestly would have missed this news until I saw your posting. Its great that wordpress keeps developing things that help support the community. Interesting its out right about the same time as that technorat blog tracker!
Karen Bryan | July 28th, 2007 @ 3:16 pm | Reply
I find the Wordpress stats plugin really useful in helping me plan and target posts for my blogs. I’m really a stat illiterate but believe that the simple information available through this plugin can be used by anyone to improve their blog:
http://www.businessblogboost.com/2007/07/28/how-to-use-wordpress-stats-to-improve-your-blog/