View your Google Analytics and FeedBurner Stats with Wordpress Reports
April 12, 2007 | Comments (4) | Filed under: Traffic
A few weeks back, we compiled a list of the Top 15 Wordpress Plugins running here at Bookmark Bliss and our subsequent changes. In the comments of the original posting, Bookmark Bliss reader Walt, from lordkingsquirrel, suggested that we checkout a plugin called Wordpress Reports.
And check it out we did…
Wordpress Reports is actually a pretty cool idea. It Takes a snapshot look at the last 7 days of traffic on both your site and your news feeds, and compiles it into a series of graphs accessible from the administration panel for Wordpress. Wordpress Reports saves you the trouble of having to individually login to both FeedBurner and Google Analytics to get a quick idea of how your traffic is doing. This is good news for anyone like me who obsessively checks statistics.
Of course, this plugin is no where near as comprehensive as either service is individually. Once you install the plugin, you can customize which information it retrieves from each to build a report that matches your individual preferences. Regardless of your choices, you are given only a “bird’s eye view” of your traffic. For example, Wordpress Reports only show the top 5 sources of incoming traffic instead of a full list.
Basically, if you’re a statistics junky like me, and are already running both the Google Analytics and FeedBurner Feed Replacement plugins, you can give yourself an additional convenient means of quickly glancing at your traffic with Wordpress Reports. Is it a necessary addon? Absolutely not, but you might find some utility in it as a time saving statistics report.
The best way to make improvements to your site is to analyze when, where, why, and how people visit you and what they do when they get there. If any of you have some additional suggestions for statistical plugin packages, I would love to hear about which ones you’ve used.
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4 people have left comments
can both google analytics and this plugin work together..
Yup, they both work together just fine. You pretty much have to have Google Analytics running already to get it to work…
Hey, thanks for the shout-out. I use it pretty much as you describe – a quick check when I don’t have the time or inclination to really dig into the analytics or feedburner stats.
I’ve got admit that I’m not really convinced. I’m a real stats junkie and I love the full-featured Google Analytics information.
Either way, with just a small amount of information available in here, it’s just not enough meaningful data to reach a substantial conclusions about your traffic.
E.g. I don’t think it’ll help me answer these questions about my site.
- Trying to analyze which source is providing you with your most loyal visitors?
- Curious about which terms you’re ranking best for in search engines and how those users are converting to your newsletter?
In my opinion it offers a lot more novel value but if they make some additions, I have no doubt they could make something very worthwhile.