Clicky Tracking for WordPress
The guys at Clicky recently wrote a post asking someone to re-develop their WordPress plugin. Since I have quite a bit of code lying around for what they needed, I emailed them and told them I'd be happy to build it. If you don't know Clicky, you really should check it out, it's a pretty solid analytics package with some cool realtime features, be warned though: their "Spy" feature is quite addictive...
Update: the plugin is now out of beta and on wordpress.org, search for Clicky in your backend and install it, or download it from the Clicky plugin page on WordPress.org!
For a 1.0, this plugin has a pretty decent feature set:
- Automatically adding your Clicky tracking code everywhere:
- Option to ignore admins
- Option to store names of commenters
- Option to track posts & pages as goals and assign a revenue to that page or post
- An overview of your site's statistics on your dashboard
- Integration with the Clicky.me Short URL service:
- Automatically create a short link for each now post and page
- Option to automatically tweet posts and pages on publish
It's using my backend class for it's admin UI, so it looks nice and clean (click for larger version):
And it adds a box to your edit post / edit page screen in which you can decide to Tweet the post or not if you've got those settings enabled and define the goal tracking variables:
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by Dennis Sievers on 30 October, 2009 at 11:04
Hi Joost,
Great news! We've been using getClicky for a while now, and a working clicky plugin was high on my wishlist.
I'll be testing it this weekend and might send you my feedback if I have any!
by Kevin Burns on 30 October, 2009 at 11:12
Outstanding work, we have been using Clicky for a couple of years and this looks to be another winner :)
by E.J. Semeijn on 30 October, 2009 at 11:16
You should also checkout Woopra.com. I have been using it since it release on april 2008. They have a webinterface but you can also spy upon your visitors with their desktop software and Live view. Best part is that it's without any cost (unlike Clicky).
by R. Moose on 4 November, 2009 at 17:37
Both Woopra and Clicky have a free level of service. However, Woopra is limited to 30k views per MONTH versus Clicky at 3k per DAY (or about 93k per month.)
Of course, it really depends on what features are most important. You might also want to check out the comparison chart at Clicky.
Then again, it also depends on what type of site you are running. The Terms of Service for Woopra specifically limits the 'free plan for personal or non-commercial use.'
BTW, I have used Woopra since November 22, 2008 and do like it for the most part (but there is definitely room for improvement.) My main issue is that it is a bit pricey which they said is due to features like SSL and Live Chat. Both features that I don't use. =/
by Paul Anthony on 30 October, 2009 at 11:45
I've heard a lot of people have experienced speed issues with Woopra's tracking code. But yes if you are going real time, defo worth a look. I've reviewed a couple before.
by James on 30 October, 2009 at 14:41
Thanks Joost! Very cool..definitely like the fact that I can now get quick basic traffic data right within wp. Now if I can figure out how to use the clicky.me and twitter feature...
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by Jared on 30 October, 2009 at 16:42
I have a handful of clients who use clicky - they will be very pleased by this. Can't complain with easier integration :D Nice work.
by JamesSpratt.org on 30 October, 2009 at 21:30
Like the idea but since I installed am getting no stats. Have disabled supercache even but still nothing. Any suggestions would be greatfully appreciated.
Cheers,
James
by Joost de Valk on 30 October, 2009 at 21:38
Hey James, have you entered your code in the backend? And do you have a wp_footer call in your theme's footer.php?
by NI-Limits on 31 October, 2009 at 02:27
We were excited to hear that Clicky were releasing a new plugin, and knowing that you are behind it ensures it will be a stable tool, but will it be supported for WordPress MU and BuddyPress, as these are growing platforms and ideal considerations for a new plugin of this nature...?
by Joost de Valk on 31 October, 2009 at 07:44
We will probably start supporting WP MU in one of the upcoming releases. I'm currently maintaining a plugin for Google Analytics and for Clicky, and am working on a third one for another analytics package, I'm looking into giving them the same codebase so I can easily support WP MU across all three of them.
by NI-Limits on 31 October, 2009 at 07:58
Sounds promising - good luck! :-)
by Sean on 31 October, 2009 at 10:05
Just curious - what other analytics package do you speak of?
by Patrick C. Price on 2 November, 2009 at 13:00
WP MU support would be awesome, especially if one plugin works for 3 analytics tools. :-)
by 淘宝网首页 on 31 October, 2009 at 17:55
文章不错。呵呵，有空来我这里瞧瞧！！
by Paul Patrick Dale on 31 October, 2009 at 17:59
Joost, I may be mistaken, but it appears that only paid accounts have a "site-id", "site-key" and
"admin-site-key" which are needed to configure the plugin Or, maybe I'm looking in the wrong
place for it. ?
by Sean on 31 October, 2009 at 20:49
All sites have this information! It's listed on the main preferences page for your web site on Clicky.
by Paul Patrick Dale on 31 October, 2009 at 21:03
Simple confusion now overcome. Ignore my question.
by Tinh on 1 November, 2009 at 17:32
VEry useful service, It is worth to try. Thanks
by Bobby on 1 November, 2009 at 19:27
Great news about this plugin, we've been using woopra but had to change due to the site load times being so slow.
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by Stevo on 2 November, 2009 at 10:22
Cool beans. I've been looking for new analytics package.
by RobbyAnz on 2 November, 2009 at 13:56
I love Clicky!
IMHO the best analytic tools of the web.
The perfection will be when it will can to trace the AdSense click!
It will can to trace the AdSense click??? ;)
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by Michael on 2 November, 2009 at 15:03
I have installed the clicky plugin and configured it with the my site ID, etc
When I go to Dashboard>Clicky Stats, the resulting area on the Dashboard page where stats should be displayed is blank. Are you aware of any plugin conflicts with this?
by fedexx on 2 November, 2009 at 15:08
hey, nice plugin, i'm gonna check it out. xD pplz like you make wordpress rock.. stanks
by referenceurfreelance.com on 3 November, 2009 at 10:06
Hi Joost,
Will the plugin include language files (I checked and it doesn't seem to at present).
Thanks for your work.
Regards,
by Joost de Valk on 3 November, 2009 at 10:07
Yeah I'll make it possible to translate it in the next release, I won't do any translating myself though :)
by referenceurfreelance.com on 3 November, 2009 at 10:15
My Dutch is a bit rusty, but as the plugin's in english, I'll can take care of the french version ;)
by Joost de Valk on 3 November, 2009 at 11:25
1.0.3 is now available, it's localizable and it comes with a Dutch translation (had to test it on something ;)).
by referenceurfreelance.com on 3 November, 2009 at 14:47
Hi Joost,
French translation done but I have noticed a couple of tiny bugs with the internationalisation. What's the best way to share them with you and what do you need from me ?
by Joost de Valk on 3 November, 2009 at 14:51
either email, joost at this domain, or in here would be fine :)
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by Walter Vos on 4 November, 2009 at 09:00
Hi Joost,
Nice plugin. I don't use Clicky but I've made a plugin similar to what you have done with the clicky.me URL shortener here (vlam-a-post).
Anyway, is that backend class you speak of open source? Could we use it in our own plugins? If so, where can I get a clean copy?
Walter
by Joost de Valk on 4 November, 2009 at 09:15
It is open source, just download the plugin, the backend class is a separate file in there. It's modified a bit here for Clicky branding purposes, in my other plugins like Google Analytics for WordPress you'll find a "cleaner" version.
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by TrafficColeman on 11 November, 2009 at 15:23
Thanks allot Joost,
I will diffidently add this to my blog asap. I'm always keeping up with your
post. This Clicky plugin will give me not only another way to just track all my stats .
Plus thanks for helping me implementing Google Analytics into my blog also.
I will get to installing it today, and getting it all set. I will let you know how it goes.
Thank Bro
by Richard on 13 November, 2009 at 08:56
That's wicked! I really like Clicky, and the plugin makes everything even easier.
by dimaks on 13 November, 2009 at 19:23
to those who have used the plugin already, how does it compare to google analytics?
by Roy on 16 November, 2009 at 18:57
This is the first time I've heard this analytics tool. Maybe I'll try it out on one of my sites, if it performs better than google analytics.
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by Pune on 21 November, 2009 at 13:13
I was searching for new analytic tool, Nice tool
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by Michael Erb on 23 November, 2009 at 17:36
After installing the 1.0.6 update to clicky I now get this error in Dashboard
The page isn't redirecting properly
Firefox has detected that the server is redirecting the request for this address in a way that will never complete.
Any ideas?
by Bill Gram-Reefer on 24 November, 2009 at 05:59
One of the things I don't see Clicky do is report what it can on comment access
I understand that comments appear below post so any click thru to single post would include comments but am curious if a click thru from a plugin like Recent Comments counts just as a post view? What if it could count comments as separate page to be accessed like that plugin that creates virtual pages for each comment? In any event, I am wondeering if Clicky could be made more comment smart, aware, or friendly?