Analytics for WordPress Blog

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  garricsimonsen · Member · Dec 13, 2009 at 3:57 am

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  does anyone have a way of enabling blog tracking using google analytics…?? I cannot locate the (/wp-content/plugins/) to add 3rd party plugins…

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  thesacredpath · Member · Dec 13, 2009 at 4:08 am

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  Google analytics cannot be used at wordpress.COM, and we cannot use plugins, so we have no access to the underlying structure.

  If you have to have GA, then you will have to host your blog on a third-party hosting site using the software from wordpress.ORG.

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  garricsimonsen · Member · Dec 13, 2009 at 8:28 am

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  any options other than GA…?

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  thesacredpath · Member · Dec 13, 2009 at 2:25 pm

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  Sitemeter, Activemeter and Statcounter have some plain HTML versions that can be used here (code placed in a text widget) but make sure you get the plain HTML versions of the code, not the script/javascript version. The information you will get will be limited since we cannot use script/javascript here though.

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  thesacredpath · Member · Dec 13, 2009 at 2:26 pm

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  I should also mention that you can use quantcast.com stats as well, and since wordpress already uses their service, you get more information from them than from the others.

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  timethief · Member · Dec 13, 2009 at 8:07 pm

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  These posts contain links and brief reviews of the third party stats counters we can use on wordpress.com blogs:
  http://onecoolsite.wordpress.com/2009/10/02/visitor-tracking-on-wordpress-com-blogs/
  http://onecoolsite.wordpress.com/2009/10/24/real-time-visitor-tracking-non-javascript-for-blogs/

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  trent · Member · Dec 13, 2009 at 9:27 pm

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  Those are great articles on @timethief site by the way ;)

  Trent

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  timethief · Member · Dec 13, 2009 at 9:28 pm

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  @Trent
  Thanks for the praise. I appreciate it. :)