keeping count of counts

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  jaymanonline · Member · May 22, 2006 at 8:27 pm

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  I’m new to WP but it seems to me that the “last 30 days” stat thing, although a nice quick reference is not really an efficient way of knowing the true value of our visits overall. Would it be to hard to to have a running counter in the back-end like blogger does to add up all the days from day one of the creation of the blog to know a grand total at a glance? I’ve only been blogging here for 3 months but I’m sure others have many more months/years worth of hits that unless you have time to add up every 30 days is kind of lost (from the graphics sight), I’m sure WP’s host provider has all of it in their back-end but it would be nice for us to see too. What does everyone eles think?
  Adding a site counter only starts from that day on and not in retrospect most of the time and not a true value in that sense.

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  drmike · Member · May 22, 2006 at 8:30 pm

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  FAQ -> “I only see one…”

  We also have a counter widget as well.

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  timethief · Member · May 22, 2006 at 9:12 pm

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  Counter widget – where, please?

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  sulz · Member · May 23, 2006 at 12:14 am

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  timethief: i think he’s referring to the blog stats widget. you have that in your blog.

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  drmike · Member · May 23, 2006 at 5:31 pm

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  Yup. :)

  (Three edits simply just to type ‘yup’. I need a vacation….)

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  jaymanonline · Member · May 23, 2006 at 9:16 pm

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  Yeah i found the winget counter option on some of the templates that sits on your front page but i think it would be nice feature to have standard on the dashboard stats page or something, some people might not want to have one on thier front page or make the info public but still might find the info helpful personally. The winget thing is great though too as it “dose the math” and seems to add up all hit to date or at least approx. As many as I had estimated, at least on my site. The suggestion was just to have one standard on the back-end, if others don’t feel it’s a need that is OK too.

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  drmike · Member · May 23, 2006 at 10:16 pm

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  You can also get an account with SiteMeter. That’s been discussed a few times within these forums. They do have an option for a invisible counter which may or may not work with WP.com but that’s a paid option with those folks. The basic account is free though.

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  sulz · Member · May 23, 2006 at 11:34 pm

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  what i’m stumped for is how one can’t get a page stats. and why aren’t pages sent through rss feed too?

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  drmike · Member · May 23, 2006 at 11:43 pm

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  Pages are not Posts and were created to be 100% (more or less) seperate from Posts. One of the design specs of WordPress.

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  sulz · Member · May 24, 2006 at 8:11 am

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  thanks for answering drmike. maybe wp should consider making pages feed-able and stats-able.

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  drmike · Member · May 24, 2006 at 12:18 pm

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  I think there’s a plug in that does it actually. :)

  From a backend point of view, it would be fairly easy to do. (They’re both in the same table with just a single record telling the two apart.)

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  sulz · Member · May 24, 2006 at 12:22 pm

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  but plug ins are not available for wp hosted blogs are they? i will send in feedback the next time i have stg to complain. =P

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  drmike · Member · May 24, 2006 at 12:24 pm

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  Nah, what I was hinting at was that it was an option for those with a regular WP blog for those who had to have it in there. :)