Use Statpress Plugin for Wordpress to know your blog readers better
Have you ever wonder, how your readers know about your blog?
Do they reach your blog from Search Engine?
Is it from the forum that you posted some comments?
Or is it from the comments that you posted on some high traffic blogs?
Are your readers reading your blog from RSS or directly visiting your blog?
How many readers are visiting your blogs per day?
Which are the articles attract the readers most?
The above questions can be easily answered by installing the Statpress Plugin.
This is one of my favorite plugin. Everyday, without fail, I will check the statistics, tracked by the Statpress Plugin of how many readers & RSS feeds have visited by blog.
This plugin tracks quite a number of areas.
It has an overview section whereby it will display visitors, pageviews, spiders & feed
It will also display the latest 10 items for Last hits, last search terms, last referrers, last agents, last pages & last spiders.
Last Hits – It display info on whether the traffic comes from RSS, spiders or visitors
Last Search term – What search terms your readers used to reach your blog and from which Search Engine
Last Referrers – Readers coming from your comments on other blogs, Social networking & others.
Last Agents – It will display which OS & browsers you readers are using.
Last pages – Latest pages viewed by your readers.
Last spiders – Display the spiders that have visited your blog.
A sample screenshot of the Last Search Terms
In detail section it will provide an accumulated count on:-
- Top days
- Operating System
- Browser
- Feeds
- Search Engine
- Top search terms
- Top referrer
- Languages
- Spiders
- Top pages
- Top days unique visitors
- Top days pageview
- Top IP page views.
A sample screenshot of the Top referer in the detail section
With this plugin, it helps me to understand what keywords my readers used to reach this blog.
This is one of the definitely Must Have Plugin for bloggers.
Steps to download the Statpress plugin & activate it
Go to http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/statpress and download the files.
Unzip the files.
Upload the directory Statpress to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory using FTP
Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
Look for below the Settings. You will see Statpress.
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9 comments
Maria on March 31, 2009 at 5:43 pm
So when I look at my stats and see “Feeds” that is actually the number of real people who have subscribed to my blog via RSS?
Or is this something other than real, flesh and blood readers?
Sorry, I’m new at this – I know my jewelry, but blogging – not so much!
Maria’s last blog post..Another Bead Break!
admin on April 2, 2009 at 1:54 pm
Hi Maria
Yes the Feeds denotes readers reading your blog using RSS
Don on April 3, 2009 at 2:51 am
I have several similar Wordpress blogs, all with Statpress. In one of my WordPress blogs, Feed show 100-200 feeds a day, which is great. On the other blog, i get similar Visitors, Pageviews, and Spiders, but low 10-12 Feed. I feel that both blogs settings are the same…. what am I not doing?
Simon on April 5, 2009 at 8:01 am
i am new to the blogging world, and your information help me alot, i have bookmark your site and will come back regularly. keep up your work!
admin on April 5, 2009 at 2:02 pm
Hi Don
You can increase your feed by visiting and posting comments to other blog sites and forum with the same interest.
This way when other bloggers see your coments, they will be curious to visit it. If they like your blog, there is a high chance they will subscribe to your feed.
rafael on May 28, 2010 at 3:14 pm
awesome plug in I use it every day!
PoundBangWhack.com on July 4, 2010 at 2:33 pm
@admin
While StatPress can provide useful information, be wary of it. I am a MySQL DBA and have seen this plugin crash numerous datbases. I posted about it, and some of the things I’ve seen, on my blog.
I just wanted to let you and your readers know that I’ve released my first round of updates to StatPress at http://www.poundbangwhack.com/2010/07/03/improve-the-performance-of-the-wordpress-plugin-statpress-and-your-blog/. I have already noticed a significant improvement in the speed of my StatPress plugin page and my blog itself. If you’ve noticed any latency in your blog and/or on the statpress page itself, it’s likely due to the poor design of the plugin.
Max on July 28, 2010 at 11:02 pm
How do I find the total visits not just visitors.
admin on July 28, 2010 at 11:54 pm
It only provides stats for daily & monthly visits. Not accumulation of visits for a long period. As this will cause the database to grow too big.