Statistics for site

  • Resolved Sebastian

    (@sdjanus)


    19 years, 7 months ago

    Hi everyone people! I was looking for something that would give me statistics info about my site, like, how many hits and visits per day/week/month I have, referers, etc.

    I’m currently using wp-slimstats plugin, which is excellent. However, I installed it about 4hs ago, and the table has already 100kb. I think it’s growing geometrically hehe.

    Actually, with only beeing able to see just which are the most read articles, so I can focus my content towards the user direction, I’d be happy. Like “title” “hits” “views”. Just that would make me happy.

    Since I don’t have much space in my DB, I’m thinking that in not much more time I will have to empty the tables created by wp-slimstats -which is excellent, only that it wont endure for much with my DB space.

    Perhaps someone know of some plugin or something on that style, that would give me the info I’m looking for.

    Thanks in advance gentlemen.

    Sebastian

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  • vavroom

    (@vavroom)

    19 years, 7 months ago

    Any kind of stats plugin will eat up HUGE amounts of database space, and will be highly resource intensive.

    My suggestion: Sign up for (free) a Google Analytics account. Put that on your site. You’ll be amazed at the amount of information you can get that way, and it won’t touch your server resources much (one bit of javascript), nor your DB space.

    Thread Starter Sebastian

    (@sdjanus)

    19 years, 7 months ago

    That was what I was looking for! Ok, and so, I found a plugin by Joe Tan, you can get it here:

    http://tantannoodles.com/toolkit/wordpress-reports/

    It brings all the data provided by Google Analytics to the WP admin interface. Really cool. The wp-slimstat plugin was ok, but I don’t have too much spare space in my DB, three blogs running on the same DB does not leave much for extras.

    Thank you very much vavroom!

    Cheers
    Sebastian

    sjuhawk31

    (@sjuhawk31)

    19 years, 7 months ago

    Where’s the best place in the WordPress coding to put the analytics code?

    talgalili

    (@talgalili)

    19 years, 7 months ago

    I put the analytics code in the header (and did it manuelly because all the plugins I tried didn’t do the trick).
    p.s: it takes a little time for google to know you inserted the code – so you can be petient.

    Thread Starter Sebastian

    (@sdjanus)

    19 years, 7 months ago

    Google says that it should be just before de closing body tag, </body>. I’ve put it there and it’s working fine. And what talgalili says is true, it started showing statistic data after some hours, but not inmediately after putting the code.

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