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 [...]

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

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 [...]

As requested by Ruben, I’ve added Clicky to the statistics detector Greasemonkey script, upgrading it to version 1.3.8, and installed Clicky on this site too. The interface looks quite good, I’ll test it over the next few days and let you guys know what I think.

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 [...]

These are the download & ratings statistics for my WordPress plugins:

This weekend I’ve begun testing the use of a CDN for yoast.com. The CDN I’m using is a product that will be available through VPS.net soon, but isn’t just yet. So far, the speed improvement has been mind boggling. Just a few weeks ago, I could only get the front page of this site to [...]

Most plugin authors host all their plugins on WordPress.org, and though this has huge advantages, it denies them of one thing: easy access to statistics of downloads. Recently, the WordPress team added a WordPress plugin information API to WordPress.org (which is very well documented here). Using this API I’ve built a widget that shows up [...]

This Pepper shows your SlideShare slideshows’ statistics within your Mint installation. All you have to do is enter your SlideShare username and password in the preferences, and you’ll get a nice overview of your slides’ statistics. Get it here. It looks like this: And the preferences look like this:

Using the Vimeo API, this pepper grabs the statistics about your videos, and shows them in your mint installation. Get it here. Screenshots The pepper pane: The preferences pane: