Stats For All WordPress Blogs
By Rob Safuto on May 29, 2007 in Open Source, Social Media, Tools | Tags: Automattic-Stats , Statistics , WordPress
The new Automattic Stats plugin allows standalone WordPress users to get the same stats users of WordPress.com get for their blog pages.
The stats that you get on WordPress.com are basic but are a good alternative to Google Analytics for those who want to answer very basic questions about how many people are reading their blog posts and who is linking to them.
This plugin works different from most other plugins in that the results of the stats are displayed over on WordPress.com. So you need to have the API key from your WordPress.com account. This is the same API key that is used for the Akismet spam service.
Its an interesting approach by WordPress in hosting the stats on their database. It is definitely a good idea. I ran a WordPress stats plugin previously and the program took up a heck of a lot of space in my database. You need to have at least WordPress version 2.1 on your site to work with this plugin. I’m at 2.0.5 on this site but I am trying it over at the Awakened Voice Learning Center.
I’m going to try it alongside Google Analytics to see which one is more useful to me. You still do not get feed statistics with this plugin. You need to host over on WordPress.com or use a service like FeedBurner to track feed stats.
[tags]Social Media, Statistics, Automattic Stats, WordPress[/tags]
