Better Stats would help a lot of people out.
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I would like to get a bit better information on visitors.
Some questions I have that the current stats page doesn’t answer:
1. I got some 400 hits last month from “search” for a single page. But whenever I search for that term on any of the search sites, I can’t find myself. Knowing where those people are coming from, (more than the word search) would be awesome.
2. Pages. I’d like to see how many people visit the homepage, category pages, created pages, etc.
3. Under referrers, in addition to where people came from, where the link directed them would be nice. For example, yesterday I got a referred link from “webmail.c.earthlink.net/wam/msg.jsp?m…” I’d love to know what link they’d emailed. I also get hits on occassion from Myspace or Facebook, but I can’t see the links because I’m not friends with the person. Though (perhaps I should try friending them, would that be stalkerish?)
4, The above I think can’t be that hard, I mean you already indicate where people come from and go to, it’s just broadening it a bit. What would be nice (but perhaps harder, and also less important, but still nice) would be visiter length and visitor path information.
P.S. Love you guys. :)
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(1) Have you watched this? Watch the “The Stats, Top Clicks and Top Posts widgets” video from WordPress.tv. http://wordpress.tv/2009/01/12/the-stats-top-clicks-and-top-posts-widgets/
(2) I also want to be sure that you are you aware that you can have third party stats programs in use on your wordpress.COM blog, provided that they are not javascript?
Here are the additional choices you can make contained in these posts:
http://onecoolsite.wordpress.com/2009/10/24/real-time-visitor-tracking-non-javascript-for-blogs/
http://onecoolsite.wordpress.com/2009/10/02/visitor-tracking-on-wordpress-com-blogs/
Do note that they all have different counting systems and cannot be compared one to the other as they track differently. -
(3) In addition we can use cubestats, quantcast, Websiteoutlook, etc. Please see this post for details http://onecoolsite.wordpress.com/2009/11/10/blogging-learning-seo-is-worth-the-effort/
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Right now I’m using stat counter, but because I can’t use PHP or Java it can’t determine where people are coming from. But, it can and does show me visitor path and length, which is really helpful to figure out how people are using my site.
The thing i was most excited about (kinda silly, but true) is that several of them have bookmarked my site. I have several regular visitors, something I had no idea until I added the stat counter.
Would you reccomend any of those other stat counters? And do they tell you where they’re coming from?
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I have noted the pattern of your questions on the forum and have come to the conclusion that over the long term you are not likely to be happy with the limitations here at wordpress.COM. I sincerely think you would be better served by
(1) purcashing your own domain
(2) hiring a web host http://wordpress.ORG/hosting
(3) downloading free software from http://wordpress.org
(4) exporting the content of your wordpress.COM blog out of it and importing it into the new wordpress.ORG self hosted blog.Please read this entry and see what you think https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/please-read-me-first-before-posting?replies=1
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