What Stats Service Do You Use?
At work I’m a stats whore. In fact my background is in maths. Although I left University with an Economics degree, I actually got my place on a maths course although I changed within weeks when I worked out that I wasn’t nerdy enough to study maths at degree level!
When I had more time to devote to my blogging stats I used to pour over them nearly everyday. But, now that I have to be more disciplined about my daily blogging time I now use Google Analytics, because it gives me a good quick snapshot that seems accurate.
However drilling down to find the detail with Google Analytics can be hard as it only lists the top 5 referrals etc. Ajay’s been raving about Reinvigorate (pictured), which is still in beta. I’ve applied for a beta account, but in the interim I’ve reinstalled Mint. I removed Mint when my old server was struggling, but hopefully now on the new server everything will be ok.
Update: I’ve temporarily made access to Mint public if you want to see what it can do out of the box. There are many other plugins, but I haven’t got around to adding them yet. The numbers for yesterday are only for a few hours and my server went down for a bit.
While I’m waiting for my reinvigorate details, I just wanted to find out how everyone else is getting their stats. What stats service or app do you use and why?
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Comment by Stephen Hopson on 10 October 2007:
Everton:
Good point! Uploading via FTP is definitely alien to a lot of people out there. I hadn’t thought of that.
Stephen
Comment by Everton on 10 October 2007:
adding code is no harder than using FTP to load a plugin in my view, which is alien to just as many people.
Comment by Stephen Hopson on 10 October 2007:
Everton:
While I understand your comment about the plug-in, there are some people who might be intidimated about the idea of inserting the coding in the footer.php for fear of messing up. There are people who are brand new at this sort of stuff and a plug-in might help them breathe a little easier. Fortunately I knew how to put the code in but my comment above was more of curiosity, wondering if the plug-in had features that the Google Analytics program did not have. That’s what I was curious about.
Have a great day!
stephen
Comment by Everton on 10 October 2007:
google anlyticator sounds like a classic poor excuse for a plugin…it took you 10 secs to insert the code, and you can get all the stats from the google site, so why burden your site with yet another plugin?
Comment by Stephen Hopson on 10 October 2007:
Everton:
Thanks! I put the Google Analytics code just before the in the footer.php and it’s now collecting data. We shall see how this goes.
Just one other question that wasn’t answered in my post. I’m just curious to see what you have to say about Google Analyaticator. Is it better to use the plug in or just use the Google Analytics code? And if one were to use the plug-in, if he/she decided to deactivate and/or delete the plug-in, does that mean all the coding will automatically be deleted for Google Analaytics?
Stephen
Comment by Everton on 10 October 2007:
Stephen - put the code just before < /body > in footer.php
Comment by Stephen Hopson on 10 October 2007:
Okay guys. I’m a new user of WP after having moved from Blogger to my own domain, using a WP theme.
Question: How and where do I put the Google Analytics code?
And as for the Google plug-ins, which one is compatible with WP Version 2.3? I saw on the list of compatible plug=ins soemthing called Google Analyaticator. Did anyone like it? If something is wrong with it, and I remove the plug in, will it also remove any codes that it put on the different pages of my blog? I would be concerned about whether the deleting of this kind of plug in would leave behind bits and pieces of coding on different pages.
Any advice?
Stephen
Comment by Adrian on 25 March 2007:
I’ve just bought a copy of basil my self and am quite impressed with the elegant design and the no nosense reports it produces from my stats. It was a tough call for me over which stats app to buy or choose with there being so many, but i am very happy with my choice.
After i bought it i had a few question and the support from these guys was great with response in little under two hours.
Although there is no ajax support it is a feature they look to be adding for an up and coming release. The roadmap for basil seems fast paced and if the turnover of features is as quick as their response time for support then this app is sure to be a diamond in the rough… …an absolute must have.
In basil we trust!!!
Comment by Everton on 14 March 2007:
lol I’d never seen that filter at the top before. Still too fiddly for my liking