I had a bit of a sleepless night last night and decided to spend a little time wading through WordPress statistics for my blog. I am not talking about followers, but some of the more interesting statistics.
First of all, you should know there are two places to look at stats (at least for the free WordPress sites). One is seen when logging into your account through WPADMIN and the other when you simply log into WordPress. I will drop in a screen print of both so you can see the difference.
Let’s walk through the basic stats first. The screen print shows you there are two tabs, one for traffic and one for insights.
Traffic (Highlighted in yellow) will show you what posts you published within a specified time period (day, week, month, etc.). You will learn which posts received the most views, where your readers originate in the world, and how they were referred to your site.
Insights (highlighted in blue) on the other hand, will give you specifics as far as how many posts you average, how many views, likes and comments your latest post had, and will also tell you how many followers you have. You can click on the ‘greater than symbol’ (>) and a new screen will open allowing you to click and visit the sites of those who follow you. This is also how you can remove an abusive follower (I have never had to do that).
The leftmost WordPress menu should allow you to select WP Admin from the very bottom of the menu. Once you have selected WP Admin, your leftmost menu will change. From the top of that new menu, select Dashboard, then select Site Stats (highlighted in yellow).
Now you are in the WP Admin Statistics.
Here you can click on each day on the bar chart and see statistics for that particular day. You can also click below to see how many times your blog has been shared and to where. I was shocked to see how many times and to where my blog has been shared.
I would recommend clicking through all the tabs and arrows on these pages to just get to know who reads your blog and how well traveled it might be. If you have visitors from across the globe, you might want to consider adding a translate widget to make your blog more accessible.
Tomorrow I will show you another easy place to gain insight into your own blogging effort. I think it helps to understand a little about our followers and the performance of our own blog posts. It will definitely help pass a sleepless night now and then.
I do this all the time, Maggie. I added the translation option, but people have told me it gives poor translations. Better than nothing, I suppose.
Best wishes, Pete.
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It probably isn’t terribly accurate, Pete. But, as you said, probably better than copy and pasting into Google translate.
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I didn’t know there was a translate widget! Now I’m going to go look for that 🙂
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I hope you find it! As Pete said in his comment, it may not be 100% accurate, but it helps.
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I love how you let us in on how you use your sleepless nights.
I listen to audio books!
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I try not to do things things that keep my brain too active, Jean!
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I find reading the most boring book imaginable a great way to get back to sleep. Back in the day it was a physics book I hated!
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It’s fun to delve into some stats. I like seeing where people come from, how they find you, and what interests they seem to have. Thanks for this great breakdown of the features.
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It is fun to see, Ron. Sometimes I discover something I never realized before.
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Maggie, thanks for the work you do to educate us WordPress users. I save all these helpful posts, and they’ve come in handy. The changes WP has made over the recent months have challenged me. Writing is hard work, but I enjoy it. Figuring out how to POST that writing on WP is NOT ENJOYABLE, but you’ve made it easier.
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I am so glad to hear that, Debbie. We all need to share our knowledge, it makes each of us stronger. I posted a new hint post today.
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Thanks for sharing this information, Maggie. It’s very useful!
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I am glad you found the information helpful, Rob.
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I’m reading these posts out of order, but this one I am sure I know about. Just checked my “At A Glance” and I’m at 969 posts. You’ll soon be overtaking me with your post count. 🤓
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I rarely look at that stat, Ally.
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Interesting. That’s the one I know, figuring when I hit 1,000 it’ll be over. I’ll have nothing more to say.
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