Stats Feedback
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Is there a way to get to a summary page for the whole blog, like you can see from the old-old stats and like what appears for a single post if you click on it’s title. I’m talking about the one with counts per month for all years, etc.
Sorry if this has been addressed already. More generally, where do we go for instructions and features list for this new stats page.
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@ supernovia, I did start a new thread in the forum, 3 times!! I’ve been begging for help with regards to bugs in the ‘reader update’ and all three of my pleas for help have been met with a deafening silence from the staff at WordPress. What more can I do? Even the ‘contact’ form sends me straight to the forums instead of to WordPress staff for help. And it would appear that only other members are manning the forums and attempting to help other members and you expect people to pay for this when they can expect to receive no help when they need it? Seriously???!!
I am missing out on many fine blog posts by those I follow because WordPress refuses to address the reader bug problem that I have posted about in the forums for over a week!!! For the love of !!!!!!
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@yoursumbuddy no need to apologize; I’m tallying up feature requests so I can get the most popular ones.
To clarify, are you looking for an all-posts, all stats feature? I worry that would take a really long time to load, but I can request if you’ll clarify that’s what you’re after.
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@supernovia, I’m looking for a summary of the entire blog, like what I see here: http://yoursumbuddy.com/wp-admin/admin.php?page=stats&view=table
So, not a new feature, just one that I can’t find in the current stats site.
There are three tables showing posts by month and year; average number of posts by month and year; and daily totals laid out in six rows of weeks. All three tables have some totals on the right hand side – for the weeks table this includes the percentage increase or loss from the previous week.
It’s the exact same set of tables that I used to get to by clicking the upper-right hand “summaries” link in the stats page that was just killed off. It didn’t take long to load, but I notice that everything in this new version loads much slower, so I suppose this would too.
Again, I’m curious if there is a how-to site for the new stats page.
Thanks.
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Not sure if it was already mentioned, but apart from the missing summaries, there is also no option to download csv in the new stats. I’d like to see this feature added together with very detailed summaries.
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Thanks @yoursumbuddy, that link helps. I can’t view it on your site but I can see that for my own blog. Noted. We don’t have any plans right now to remove that, so I’m guessing you’ll be able to access it for some time. I’ve also requested a version for Calypso stats.
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Everyone, I just wanted to announce we’ve got all time top-posts and pages now. Head over to https://wordpress.com/stats/day/posts/ to see it.
Also a nice, wide, all-time view for countries:
https://wordpress.com/stats/year/countryviews/To access either of these from the main stats page, click Posts & Pages or Countries.
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@diaryofdennis CSVs are also available on those views as well as some others. Just scroll to the bottom and click “Download CSV”.
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Also, we had a few requests about having to click too many times to access Yesterday. To help with this a bit, we’ve now made the default page “days” instead of “insights” … you can just click on the bar to access Yesterday. I hope this helps a bit.
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CSVs are also available on those views as well as some others. Just scroll to the bottom and click “Download CSV”.
Yes, if I click on any of the frames… then it’s at the bottom. But where exactly can I download data for all months since the birth of the blog? I mean monthly stats, daily stats, yearly stats?
Also without reading all the comments made in this forum thread, are you working on the nice summary tables we had with the old stats page? The summaries where we could see data like “+200%” increase of views and stuff? The whole table was perfect back then!
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Hmm, monthly stats from the beginning of time? Is this a new feature request or something from the old system? I’m not recalling that.
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Re: summary tables, those are available in wp-admin stats. I’ll file a request for the other.
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Summary tables are definitely needed to get an idea how the blog developed over time. It contained average data, percentage changes and so on. If that data can be downloaded via CSV, that would be even greater.
I think these missing features including the others mentioned in this thread are the reason why people think the new stats system is a “dumped down” version.
Anyway, I see you’re working on getting some of the stuff back… if the new stats page reaches 100% of the missing features of the old stats system, I am going to give the new stats page a chance, otherwise I won’t because I dislike it if developers put me into the bucket of mainstream users. It might be that some of the blogging dayflies are overwhelmed with too much data, but your loyal userbase is not. Summary tables need a come back, it’s essential.
I am glad that you guys start to care about your loyal userbase. I hope the new stats page will reach 100% functionality of the old stats page that we enjoyed. If that happens, I am going to suggest the new stats page.
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Also another request coming… the “yesterday” link is also missing. Checking the data of yesterday with each of the widgets is very important too. Why? I logged into my site right now after midnight, and there is not much data collected in the stats page since a new day started. So, to get a wider overview of what happened to the site, the data of yesterday is much more useful in some cases.
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Yes, this was available in the old stats. Data was available as far back as 2012 (it used to be even earlier until a previous stats update!).
I used this feature to look at trends over a longer period of time and to extract the data to analyse in different ways offline. -
Hello there,
I always publish galleries in my posts, and previously it was possible to monitor their performance in the stats – there was a handy drop down on the main post.I think direct clicks for thumbnails on the post are still shown, but it was useful to know which photos were doing well and behaviour of viewers as they scrolled through.
@Supernovia I’d like to add this to the list if it hasn’t already been mentioned – this thread is becoming quite tricky to keep track of!
With best wishes,
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I am sure everyone appreciates what you are trying to do. The simple solution is surely just to reinstate the old stats page and don’t tell us that it was discontinued because so few people were using it. The amount of traffic on this feeds proves otherwise.
Progress is only good if it is genuine progress – this is not!
Just bring it back. Just bring it back!
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My suggestion for missing features that I’d like to see back:
Everything that does not look exactly like, and perform as well as the old stats page should be modified so it works exactly like the old stats page.
Who am I kidding. It’s clear that nobody is listening to us content creators. You know, the ones that helped WordPress get to the point where they are today.
I’m unsubscribing from this thread. It’s jut a waste of my time if WordPress doesn’t restore access to the old stats page. I despise everything about the new garbage stats page. I would rather learn to use a completely new set of tools somewhere else, rather than use WordPress the way it is now.
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Well said Farmerbob!
What is the point of removing all features and then taking requests and promising to put it all back?
Just reinstate the old stats function – Job Done!
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I agree, there’s no point in following this thread. The old stats page is gone, and it won’t be back. Whatever they’ve patched together to replace it is less informative and less convenient than the old page. No one on this thread has had anything good to say about it, and WordPress doesn’t care.
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