I like to browse through my website stats to see how visitors get here and what is popular. Along with things like OS’s and browser versions I also occassionally find interesting searches that brought people here. I use Google Analytics and Mint to collect stats and of course no stats program is perfect, but here’s some current highlights. Firefox is overwhelmingly the browser of choice for visitors to this site. According to Google Analytics 45% of visitors use Firefox, 27% use Internet Explorer, 19% use Safari and 6% use Chrome. [...] Read the rest »
WordPress Plugins: WordPress.com Stats and Google Analytics
When I redesigned my site at the beginning of June I added two new plugins for collecting site statistics. Both share the ability to exclude logged on site admins so my own site visits are ignored. The first is WordPress.com Stats by Automattic (so sometimes listed as “Automattic Stats”) and the other is Google Analytics by Denis de Bernardy. WordPress.com Stats WordPress.com Stats requires you to have an account at WordPress.com, although you do not need an actual blog there. The Stats are hosted on their servers. Also, you’ll need [...] Read the rest »
