Blog Metrics in WordPress
Avinash Kaushik has done an excellent post about blog metrics today, most of the stats he showed off, like unique visitors, pageviews, subscribers, etc. are ones I've been using for quite a while. There were two new "metrics" that I hadn't used as much up till now, raw author contribution and conversation rate.
Of course I had calculated the average number of comments per post, but I hadn't thought of removing my own comments from that. Calculating your average number of posts per month also wasn't new to me, but because of Avinash's post, I decided to make it a bit easier to do that.
Avinash mentions in the post that he uses the General stats plugin, and has to do some math himself to get the stats he wants, namely:
- Raw Author Contribution:
- average number of posts per month
- average number of words per post
- Conversation Rate:
- average number of comments per post without your own comments
- average number of words used in comments to posts
As you might know I don't like doing calculations, even simple ones, more than once. So, using one function from the general stats WordPress plugin and some coding of my own, I hereby present you the blog metrics plugin!
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How about keeping track of conversational contributors? People who post comments and come back after other people have replied to their comments, to respond to the response (now I'm in a loop :-)). It would also be neat to track everything over time (say plot conversation rate vs post frequency). Did you say you have lots of time on your hands?
I think tracking how lazy a poster i am would be a very bad move for me....
Thanks for building this tool. I will install it this weekend, and see how it works. I have become more and more interested in our blog, lately. We have been running it for years, but until recently, I didn't realize what an asset it could be. Thanks for helping me better understand this, by putting numbers into the equation.
Take care. mjl
Another fine build Joost and good to meet you, well on here anyway ;)
Hi Dan, good to see you here :) and thx for the compliment :)
Hmm, love the plugin, but its not reading my months blogging time right, i'm getting the following:
Months blogging:455 (Since 0000-00-00 00:00:00)
On one blog running 2.1.3 it works fine :-)
On another blog running 2.0.3 it says shows stats that are clearly wrong, any idea why? (see below)
Raw Author Contribution
An average of 0 posts per month
An average of 0 words per post
Conversation Rate
An average of 0 comments per post
An average of 0 words were used in comments to each post
Full Stats
Users: 1
Posts: 0
Words in posts: 0
Comments: 1807
Words in comments: 149418
Months blogging: 43 (Since 2004-03-29 15:32:03)
Neerav: hmm the database has probably changed since that version, I don't have a 2.0 running anywhere so I can't test it...
Hi Joost
I removed the following line from the bm_get_stats() function and the stats now work in 2.0.3 :-) :
AND post_type = 'post'
Ah Neerav, thx for that!
Is there a call/function to show these stats in my sidebar or on a page?