Posts Tagged ‘statistics’

This blog started for my own reference, and to provide a reference source for many things. The first month of posts have been all computer related, in particularly about Linux. I am surprised at how many comments, even from return visitors I have gotten about the things I have shared (. This lead me to wonder how people are finding this blog, and how many people return, and how long they linger. In short I need a statistics plugin for WordPress. My host provides some general generic overall statistics for each of my domains, but I wanted something specific to this blog.

I found WassUp, which describes itself as a real time statistics plugin for WordPress.  Not only do I get a nice little admin widget with a neat graph, and the usual vister counter, but I can veiw who is visiting my set at that moment.

Another option I have been trying is WordPress.com Stats Plugin. This plugin is more a traditional statistics component, that shows you refferel hits, popular post views, and search term, etc.

The big kahuna of open source website stats gathering is FireStats, which is a separate component you install on your server. I discovered with some help of the FireStats installer I can embed it into word press as a plugin by fallowing these instructions.

After installing it via plugin style, I had to finish the installation, under the plugin side panel listed as FireStats Installer. With that done, I had a new dashboard item for FireStats. I have used FireStats before, but now it is much easier to get running with Wordperss then in the past. The Dashboard Item shows you nice compact listing of users and their, locations, OS, and browsers, referrals and so forth.

With my exploration into Statistic tracking on WordPress, I have settled on using Fire Stats along side WassUp, and I am interested in seeing who is visiting my corner of The Blogsphere and where they a referred from.