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5 Wordpress Analytic and Metric Plugins I Trust

Submitted by Courane01 from Google Reader

Nov 04, 2009

Summary

There are a lot of analytic programs and systems out there that are awesome but not many Wordpress Plugins for those systems that I trust to do a good job of, well, simply not breaking.

The fact is that I’d much rather insert the code myself instead of banking on a plugin that may become old, outdated, or deprecated. Not a risk I’m typically willing to take!

But, here are 5 Analytic Plugins that I’ve used historically that haven’t failed me (yet):

1. WP Stats Dashboard

This is an oldy but goody. Used on Wordpress.com sites this is a standard for most self-hosted Wordpress blogs as well. Get it, Got it, Good.

Download it Here.

2. Google Analyticator

This one is also pretty much a standard, especially for people not interested in adding the code themselves to their blog. It’s robust and I’ve used it on a dozen blogs+.

Download it Here.

3. Blog Stats by W3Counter

Connecting to the free analytics service W3Counter, it adds a dashboard to your blog admin that includes real-time tracking. The reason I’ve used this in the past is because lots of people have this analytics pac

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