When starting a new blog it’s important to see where your readers are coming from and how many there are.
In the Education.au blogging system I’ve installed three statistics plugins. These can be enabled by going to the Plugins->Plugins page and activating the Google Analytics, Feedburner Feed Replacement and PMetrics plugins.
Those plugins enable statistics collection by three services (which users will have to sign-up for themselves):
Google Analytics
Google Analytics provides a rich set of visualisation tools for website usage. However, to some degree it is targeted as users of Google’s AdSense advertising product, or at least people doing online commerce (on of its main features is “goal tracking”, which tracks how many people do something like buy an item by using a shopping cart). I’ve found that the statistics generally take a day to update.
Feed Burner
Feed Burner gives you statistics on your RSS feed usage, as well as providing a number of other features such as translations between various versions of RSS & Atom and a “Browser Friendly” view of the feed.
Performancing Metrics
Perfomancing Metrics is a simple, clean and quick website statistics package. It has less features than Google Analytics, but is simpler to use for casual use, and updates its statistics quicker.
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