WordPress.com Stats Plugin Review

Jun 2, 2010 by Shivendu Madhava

There are hundreds of plugins and services which can provide statistics about your visitors. However I found that even though something like Google Analytics provides an incredible depth of information, it can be overwhelming and doesn’t really highlight what’s most interesting to me as a writer. That’s why Automattic created its own stats system, to focus on just the most popular metrics a blogger wants to track and provide them in a clear and concise interface.

Installing this stats plugin is much like installing Akismet, all you need is to put in your API Key and the rest is automatic.

Once it’s running it’ll begin collecting information about your pageviews, which posts and pages are the most popular, where your traffic is coming from, and what people click on when they leave. It’ll also add a link to your dashboard which allows you to see all your stats on a single page. Less is more.

Finally, because all of the processing and collection runs on our servers and not yours, it doesn’t cause any additional load on your hosting account. In fact, it’s one of the fastest stats system, hosted or not hosted, that you can use.

Installation

The automatic plugin installer should work for most people. Manual installation is easy and takes fewer than five minutes.

1. Create a stats directory in your plugins directory. Typically that’s wp-content/plugins/stats/.
2. Into this new directory upload stats.php and open-flash-chart.swf.
3. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress.
4. It will ask you to enter your WordPress.com API key, do so.
5. Sit back and wait a few minutes for your stats to come rolling in.

Download: WordPress.com Stats

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