With version 0.3 of the Blog Metrics plugin, I’m introducing quite a bit of new stuff: it calculates how many trackbacks you received on average per post, and does a better job of calculating comments. But that’s only a small part of what’s cool in it, the coolest part, is that it now generates stats…
Google Analytics: Adding search engines in the new version
As Google Analytics unlocked a few new features, they also made the new ga.js the default. I’m working on upgrading my Google Analytics for WordPress plugin to work with the new version, but I though I’d let you guys know some of the things I ran into. The first one is that adding search engines…
Blog Metrics 0.2: compare all time stats to last month’s stats
I thought it would be cool to compare your all time blog metrics to the metrics for last month, so I tweaked my blog metrics plugin a bit
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…
Updated my Google Analytics plugin to track AdSense clicks
Iwan Uswak from the Data Mining Blog requested that I added Aaron’s AdSense Google Analytics tracking to my Google Analytics for WordPress plugin. I emailed Aaron to ask if he had any objections to me doing that, and as expected his answer was “of course not.”. So I’ve just updated my plugin to version 2.0,…
Google Analytics’ find function
If you use my Google Analytics WordPress plugin, or just use another javascript to add extra search engines and refine the way Analytics tracks your search referrers, you can’t see the figures for for instance Google’s organic search as a whole anymore.
Cool new stuff in Google Analytics
Well, now that I sort of understood how the Google Analytics code worked, the guys over at GA thought: heck, let’s throw it all out (well not just yet, but we’ll get to that in a second), and come with some new stuff. Justin has done a great job, as usual, covering all this new…
Using segmentation in Google Analytics for WordPress RSS readers
One of the things I’ve been wanting to do for a while seems to be finally nearing completion. Google Analytics allows you to segment users into custom segments, and there’s one segment I’ve been aching for. I want to be able to segment RSS readers, to be able to see the different browsing behavior of…
John Chow vs Shoemoney: John is in the lead!
John Chow and Shoemoney are holding a competition between themselves for who can get the most RSS subscribers in a month time. I’ve created a graph of their progress since the start of the competition using the FeedBurner API, this image will update itself during the competition: Help John Chow beat Shoemoney in their little…
Yahoo’s Search Assist and tracking keywords
Dave’s post pointed me at the new look for Yahoo!, and Greg did some coverage on SEL. The coolest thing in there is Yahoo Search Assist, which Danny explains at length in this somewhat older post. It works amazingly cool and it might even make me consider Yahoo! a bit more often. Sean Hardaker raises…
