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Blog Metrics 0.3: who’s the best linkbaiter?

Joost de Valk — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 15:38:39 +0000

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 per author as well! It only shows those stats when there's more than one author, to keep it clean if your blog is a single author blog.

Check out some screenshots:

Blog Metrics 0.3: who’s the best linkbaiter? is a post from Joost de Valk's Yoast - Tweaking Websites.A good WordPress blog needs good hosting, you don't want your blog to be slow, or, even worse, down, do you? Check out my thoughts on WordPress hosting!

Blog Metrics 0.2: compare all time stats to last month’s stats

Joost de Valk — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 20:29:40 +0000

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, and now it gives you this screen:

Blog Metrics 0.2: compare all time stats to last month’s stats is a post from Joost de Valk's Yoast - Tweaking Websites.A good WordPress blog needs good hosting, you don't want your blog to be slow, or, even worse, down, do you? Check out my thoughts on WordPress hosting!

Blog Metrics in WordPress

Joost de Valk — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 20:59:37 +0000

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!

Blog Metrics in WordPress is a post from Joost de Valk's Yoast - Tweaking Websites.A good WordPress blog needs good hosting, you don't want your blog to be slow, or, even worse, down, do you? Check out my thoughts on WordPress hosting!

Update to statistics detector for yet another stats package

Joost de Valk — Sat, 12 May 2007 14:07:31 +0000

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.

Update to statistics detector for yet another stats package is a post from Joost de Valk's Yoast - Tweaking Websites.A good WordPress blog needs good hosting, you don't want your blog to be slow, or, even worse, down, do you? Check out my thoughts on WordPress hosting!