Why have you wrecked the wordpress stats page?
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The ‘improved’ version has removed at least three vital elements of the stats page. Firstly, next to today’s stats used to be a thing you could click into to find yesterdays list of stats (articles and views). That has disappeared. Secondly, you used to be able to easily click onto the list of articles and how many views they’d had for the previous 30 days, quarter and year. That has now gone (or if the facility is still there, it’s not clear where it is). Thirdly, you used to be able to look at the stats total for each month, going back several years. You could compare stats for May 2015 with stats for May 2014 and 2013. Now the months only go back ten months. So you can compare May 2015 with April 2015 but not with May 2014. Or, again, if you can, it is certainly not clear where the facility to do that is. I don’t understand why you would either remove these crucial stats elements or put them somewhere that is impossible to see how to get to when looking over the stats page.
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the new stats page is simply change for the sake of change, and not good enough. I am angry the old one is gone, and want it back! no doubt WP staff will quietly mock me for hating change. but change must first be worthy of customer support. the new stats page is not.
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I couldn’t believe it when I first saw it. It is also very frustrating that in recent months bloggers still had the option of clicking onto the old stats page, which I always did, but now that’s gone.
So not only is the new stats page a step backwards in terms of meeting users’ needs, the option of still being able to go to the old one has been taken away.
Each month I do comparisons for two sites – Redline and The Irish Revolution – involving looking at the last month’s stats and the same month last year (and the year before). Why they would take away the capacity to do such an important comparison is unfathomable. (Or, if it is still possible to do, where on earth is the facility?)
I’m all for change where the change involves *improvement*. But this is a user-unfriendly step *backwards*. It means we can do *less* rather than more.
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To eradican: it’s bizarre alright. The old stats page, in my view, was great. It met all my needs really well. I think wordpress is basically excellent, so it’s very weird why, as you say, they shoot themselves in the foot with such awful changes that people don’t want and don’t like.
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@philipferguson
Some of the stats elements have moved to the new “Insights” tab. I don’t know if that’s what you’re looking for, but try there. You can see here for more information: https://en.blog.wordpress.com/2015/06/01/insights-a-new-view-of-your-stats/You can still find the old stats page here: https://wordpress.com/my-stats/ I suggest you bookmark that link if you prefer that one, as there’s no longer a link to switch from the new stats page to the old one.
I’ll also tag this for staff so they can take notice of your feedback.
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The most useful stats page – the summary page – has disappeared completely. Instead we have an ‘insights’ page which offers little real insight. Disappointed that statistics so important to serious bloggers seem so unimportant to what is supposedly the best of blogging sites. It seems to be a blind spot, because the rest of the site is great.
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@romanticdominant
Please read my answer above containing a link to the old stats page where all the summary stats are still available. -
I have often dropped by here to complain but to be fair the new stats page has improved quite significantly. It still isn’t as good as the old stats page but it is now quite usable. Improvements have also been made to the childish ‘beep, beep, boop’ which makes it an almost acceptable replacement for the classic. Let’s give WP credit for listening to and acting upon our feedback in these forums.
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To: Kokkieh
I had already looked at the Insights page and hadn’t found what I wanted there. That’s what prompted me to write here.
I will be using the link to the old stats page, so thanks for providing that. The old stats page was much more useful than the new one. So the basic point is still “if it already works just fine, don’t change it just for the sake of changing it.” Tweaking the old stats page might have been fine, but the changes that were made were far too sweeping and no-one here thinks they were an improvement.
And I say this as someone who really appreciates WordPress.
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