WordPress statistics of plugin
I have me times different statistics plugins for WordPress installed and viewed. Many bloggers want to call your traffic directly from the backend of WordPress from and not necessarily install an external solution such as Google Analytics. What do these plugins and what are the numbers compared to Google Analytics? I have selected the following plugins:
* Semmelstatz
* StatTraq
* FireStats
* Live
* WordPress Blogstatistik
* SlimStat
Why choose? I researched some time and found determined over 50 plugins that Chuck out numbers about WordPress in any way. Most of them are designed for very special requirements or have only very limited functionality. Finding it was important that the plugins give some basic information such as traffic, referrers, keywords etc. me, stop what you would expect as a minimum an analysis tool. Nevertheless, an exotic has crept in with live.
I haven’t done a direct comparison of features of the statistics plugins. The idea was to create a matrix which will permit a feature comparison, but I gave up that after a short time because the plugins are too different.
Terms
The plugins almost all live in an own terminology. Views, uniques, visits, visitors, hits, UserCount… it’s all going. Unfortunately a definition is what now exactly measured the term in any of the tools. It is therefore too damn difficult to compare the numbers, because you never know what everything is included.
Search engines and bots
One advantage of plugins is that they can measure the traffic of bots and search engine crawlers. The disadvantage is that this traffic at all the plugins cannot be separated from the user traffic. This is probably the main reason that so huge differences lie in the traffic.
The numbers
First I would like to present the measured figures of each tool. You can see, the bandwidth is really great. As I recorded with visits, uniques and PI’s from Google Analytics into the table. For almost all tools although absolute numbers are strongly different but the trend is largely identical. Only StatTraq is completely out of the ordinary and SemmelStats also has a small break.
Semmelstatz
Semmelstatz is my personal favorite among the WordPress plugins. You can get a quick overview of the most important data on a page. Blog statistics, history after days (configurable), referrers, keywords and top 10 posts and comments. Anyone can view the raw data sets to get more details. Nice, I think you can see how many users are currently online and read what contribution.
In the settings you can configure how many entries you want to see the individual statistics and how long a user is considered online. Hint: The last 9 days when the traffic view, so that you can compare Monday to Monday. Semmelstatz may exclude among the bots off the record.
StatTraq
This plugin is because with an own surface. Once you click on the link in wp-admin, you have your own look & feel what not particularly succeeded in my opinion. This menu has clearly the major points for users, page views, referrers, keywords and some other information. StatTraq allows bots the statistics exclude settings which is very positive. Still, I find the numbers despite exclusion of bots still very high.
On the page SE saturation can give to the State of the own page in the search engines supposedly. There, however, no pages appear I index Google, what I believe to be a rumor. Links to the AddUrl pages of search engines I think a bit silly. Really too bad, because the approach is not so bad.
FireStats
This plugin is actually completely ruled out. Firstly it offers no history, then always visitors of last 24 hours indicates it which is very unusual and last it installs twice on the same server. The problem is that FireStats files in the / tmp folder stores and then used by all FireStats installation on the server. This results in error messages, and sometimes strange numbers when switching to the other installation. While managing multiple pages can be set in the settings, but that brings something me only when I share the server with other users, as I need to enter the information of all FireStats installations on the same server there.
However, FireStats has some nice features. The summary worthy of your name and is very straightforward. At a glance with each other get the last referrers, search terms, most visited pages and some more statistics. Some of the sections allow more details about a small plus sign to get such as all visited pages in the referrer. Well I think that you get the raw records displayed.
As additional feature you can display the comments the country, browser and operating system of the comment.
If wouldn’t be the problem with the multiple installation and one at least of one complete day display the numbers could leave, FireStats would be a simple tool that shows the most important information at a glance. But it is unfortunately not really useful.
Live
Live is completely out of the ordinary and is not a serious statistics or tracking plugin for WordPress. Because I but had installed it in order to research, I will introduce it anyway. Live is a plugin that shows you the current traffic on your blog. No more and no less. Posts, comments and feed access are indicated by different icons and also you can see the referrer and the IP address. That’s it already.
WordPress Blogstatistik
This is the official statistics plugin of WordPress itself. For the installation you will need an API key, you should already have if your Akismet uses.
Well I think the graphics which can view as days, weeks or months and thus displays a simple trend. This may not even Google Analytics ;-)
Including get displayed key figures very clearly. Referrers, top posts, keywords, clicks and incoming links, and each whatever the figures of today and yesterday. Thus there is always a direct comparison to the previous day. Would have been still also display this data for whole weeks or months to desirable.
All in all looks good the official WordPress statistics plugin. Now the traffic from bots could filter out it would be first choice.
SlimStat
SlimStat based ShortS Act and is a quite complete plugin which displays all important data. The main summary shows last traffic today, yesterday, downloads and last month. On request you can display the numbers for whole days, weeks or months. I give no credence only unity “Uniques”, because the figures are very high. With this plugin it seems to be that the BOT traffic included is and will be counted as a unique visitor.
Get displayed, the origin of traffic domains, keywords and hosts each with different voreingestelten filters. With the “recent resources”, you get very beautifully displayed whether access through the feed was or was a “normal” reader. I suppose that this point is “unusual” for search engines and other bots.
Behind each entry you will find a small button which you can set a filter. This is one of the best features and stands out completely from the other plugins. The complete report on traffic clicking just behind “Google.com” in the domain list is filtered by this domain. Here one can speak of a Profiler begin.
Then a few pretty graphics that last week and this month show the Trafficverlauf of today, hiding behind a further menu item. The graphics displayed feed traffic separately from decent visitors.
SlimStats offers also a click path display, where you can see which pages a visitor inside looked at.
Conclusion
Live hits something out of the way and can be recommended as sole statistics plugin. Firestats falls on installation issues and indicating missing out a decent period of time. I find absolutely unsexy StatTraq alone from the surface, a plugin must be integrated into the WordPress interface for my understanding. Also übezeugen StatTraq functions not really.
When the other plugins, it is somewhat a matter of taste. My personal favorite is Semmelstatz because it is fast and clearly arranged and the numbers appear less utopian like other tools.
Particularly the official WordPress statistics plugin and SlimStat liked me. I can thoroughly recommend both. Slimstat mainly due to the simple filter function. None of the featured plugins is what the claim but also can be suitable for Web Analytics. Quickly just current trends pointing and look, what is going on the page should be the main task and the three Favorites meet all very well.
Now I have sore fingers and hope to have given you a good overview. Writes what use you out in the comments. Certainly I forgot an important plugin ;-) but now will I download schmeißen first some plugins again.