Vlad

If you’re using WordPress to blog chances are you’ll want to see who’s reading your blog and what are the topics of interest. Enter stage left: wordpress.com stats!

The official stats plugin is wonderful and it integrates neatly into your blog’s (or your wp.com global) dashboard. It works great for people with many blogs, it works even greater if you already some wp.com blogs and some private hosted blogs. It’s hot!

But can it do more than satisfying your crave for ego bumping?

Can it help your blog? I believe so.

Here’s how: now matter how people are arriving on your blog (be it from a feed reader, a referrer link or some search engine) changes are they’ll be missing on what’s really important and interesting about your blog. If you could tell them what other people have found if interest maybe they’ll take so time and dive into those posts. Who knows, maybe you could turn them into regular visitors!

And you can do that, and it’s easy! WordPress.com stats plugin is able to give you that info. And this why I developed a stats helper plugin. It’s used right here, on this blog’s Most Visited Posts top panel.

Hope it will help you!

Admit it! You’ve been using IE in secret, peeking at how most of the people (at least 60%) see the web. And you’ve been pushed by MS to install the newest version, i.e. 7 (pun intended), which sucks a bit less than the previous.

But what about the rest of the people, the 40% that resisted the push? How do they see your stuff?

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I was looking over this blog’s visitor stats and thought I’d let you in on the data for last month:

• unique visitors: 4433 (down 300 from previous month)
• page views: 6315 (down 183 from previous month)
• top 3 referring TLDs:

• .com – 1220
• .uk – 179
• .ro – 123

• Google – 1888
• Altavista – 150
• Yahoo! – 45

• veridian room – although it’s misspelt
• michael jordan’s house
• philips perfectdraft
• sopranos theme
• thecrims

• Veridian Room post
• Smash Mouth “All Star” post
• Sopranos Theme post

• IE – 67.39% (down 4% from previous month)
• Firefox – 20.19% (up 2.8% from previous month)

• Mac – 4.67% MacOSX + 0.56% Mac Power PC
• Unknown – 2.45%
• Linux – 1.32%
• Windoze – you figure out the rest, it’s too many flavours to sum up (largest cut is Windows Xp – 76.32%)

That’s it for now, I’ll be making another one in January with all year round stats.

Checking my counter stats I noticed somebody bumped into this site on Google searching for online business on all Romanian pages. I checked to see for myself how high I was ranked and SURPRISE: I was listed on the first page, way ahead other people that actually do business online. Thx Google!