What’s The Best Way To Get Wordpress Stats?

October 29th, 2006 • Related • Filed Under

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I’ve been having a discussion over the last day or so with Martin from gHacks about our relative traffic stats.  About 6 months ago we had the same level of traffic, but gHacks has definitely moved onto another level since then thanks to Martin’s hard work, whereas Connected Internet has suffered from a bit of neglect, but things are starting to improve again.

After looking at the numbers being provided to me via the various tools at my disposal (Stattraq and Wordpress reports as plugins, and Analog, AWStats and Webalizer via my server) I’m getting a very unclear picture of what is going on.  Depending on which tool I use, I’m getting between 1-8k visitors per day, 1.5-14 pageviews per visit and 2-30K page views per day!
I was going to do a search for the best Wordpress reporting tools, but I thought it’d be easier to ask.  What’s the best tool to use as either a plugin or at the server level?

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Everton is based in London and has worked in the internet and mobile space for over ten years now, and before that worked in corporate strategy and consulting. He has a degree in Economics from Cambridge University, and currently runs the Portal and online operations for one of the largest ISPs in the UK. He also writes for Windows 7 News.

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   Comment by christopher on 4 December 2006:

   Use Google Analytics and be done with it. Some people claim it undercounts but that’s only because it’s better at filtering out bots and other automated traffic than other solutions.
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   Comment by Nils Schulte am Hülse on 11 December 2006:

   I use Mint. You have to pay 30,- $ for each domain. It is a very smart tool wich shows you all interesting statistics on one side. More functions can be installed via peppers. You can get a pepper that integrates your feedburner data in mint.

   Google Analytics ist good but sometimes it is too much data and mint statistics are realtime and on my server.
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   Comment by Christopher on 11 December 2006:

   I second Mr. Hülse on Mint - I actually use both - they answer different questions for me and there is basically nothing better or faster (in my opinion) for quick hits on stats than Mint.
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   Comment by Everton Blair on 11 December 2006:

   I went for mint in the end and it was the best $30 I’ve spent in a long time

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