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Using the new Wibstats system
4th Jan
As some of you have already seen (thanks for the nice messages, by the way) the Wibstats blog statistics software has been updated. There are quite a few changes, here’s a quick list:
- New menu system – the separate reports now appear as menu items in the left-hand list (at the bottom, below Settings)
- Fixes for the date range reports (they are faster to load, and I’ve also learned to count)
- Fixes for referring site reports (it now ignores search engines)
- New percentage columns (for instance the percentage of people who visited from the U.K.)
- Times reports showing when people visited your blog, for example the number (and percentage) of people visiting on each day of the week
There are also some other changes which, frankly, I can’t remember right now. But there is one thing I do remember which is prety cool. I’ve used the WordPress shortcodes system so you can put your statistics right into your blog posts and pages. How? Simples:
[wibstats report="popularsearches"]
Will give you;
| Search | Visitors |
|---|---|
| wibsite | 46.15% |
| wibsite.com | 5.1% |
| 10575961 | 2.74% |
| wiblog | 2.54% |
| 2 | 2.34% |
| 1 | 1.78% |
| www.wibsite.com | 1.76% |
| 0h | 1.57% |
| +wibsite | 1.38% |
| f | 0.7% |
Want another example? OK:
[wibstats report="recentcountries"]
Gives:
| Country | Time |
|---|---|
| Unknown | 3:32 am |
| Unknown | 3:10 am |
| Unknown | 3:07 am |
| Unknown | 1:39 am |
 United Kingdom | 1:01 am |
| Unknown | 12:48 am |
| Unknown | 12:40 am |
| Unknown | 12:33 am |
| Unknown | 12:29 am |
| United Kingdom | 12:14 am |
Pretty cool, huh? There are quite a few different reports you can show (these go in the report="report-name-here" bit).
popularcountries- The most popular countries to visit your blog
popularcities- The most popular cities to visit your blog
recentcountries- The most recent countries to visit your blog
recentcities- The most recent cities to visit your blog
popularbrowsers- The most popular browsers to visit your blog
popularplatforms- The most popular platforms (operating systems) to visit your blog
popularscreensizes- The most popular screen sizes to visit your blog
popularsearches- The most popular search words which found your blog
recentsearches- The most recent search words which found your blog
populardays- The most popular days of the week that people visited your blog
popularhours- The most popular hours of the day that people visited your blog
popularmonths- The most popular months of the year that people visited your blog
popularreferrers- The most popular referring websites that sent visitors to your blog
recentreferrers- The most recent referring websites that sent visitors to your blog
session- A breakdown of the data associated with the current visitor to your blog (their country, city, browser etc)
A couple of other options allow you to configure these reports as they display on your posts/pages.
size: sets the number of items you want to show (minimum 1, maximum 100)
cache: sets how long you want the report to be cached for. Caching means that the report isn’t recalculated every time someone visits the page, meaning the page is a little bit faster to load.
The size option is set in minutes, with "0" meaning not-cached-at-all (the report is recalculated every time someone visits the page it appears on) and "-1" for cached forever (the report is generated once then remains the same forever).
So, a couple more examples:
[wibstats report="popularcities" size="25"]
This shows the top 25 most popular cities to visit your blog.
[wibstats report="recentsearches" size="5" cache="0"]
This shows the top 5 latest search words which brought visitors to your blog, and is not cached at all.
[wibstats report="popularreferrers" size="50" cache="-1"]
This shows the top 50 most popular referring websites (sites that have a link to your blog) and is cached forever. This means the report will show what the top referring sites are now and will never be updated.
Hopefully these options are pretty easy to understand. Give me a shout in the forums or comments here if you get stuck.
In the future I hope to do some more features for Wibstats (which is available for anyone to use) including:
- Reports by email: the Wibstats system emails you daily, weekly or monthly with the latest stats from your blog
- Proper graphs, pie charts and more
- A "live" view showing who is visiting your blog Right Now
- Details on how long people looked at pages for, and where they went when they left
That lot may take me some time to complete, however…
Saved on January 4th, 2010 by chris
Comments
5 Responses to “Using the new Wibstats system”
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ferijen says: January 7, 2010 at 8:11 pm
Oooh! I see them! Clever….
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rain says: January 8, 2010 at 7:10 am
can’t quite wrap my brain around all the 1′s and 0′s you needed to create these fine statistics… whoa!
there are so many questions in this world: i’ll ask just one…
was able to put the stats in a post (see here – rain.wibsite.com/2010/01/815/) but did you say there was a way to put it statically on a page (like in a column)?
or a wigit thingy?
or maybe i could just cut and paste… you know, print out the table, cut it out, then tape to the computer screen.
as a matter of fact, that’s closer my ability level.
…may i borrow some tape, please? -
rain says: January 8, 2010 at 7:21 am
oh wait i see – the stats float above and are always the most recent? i’m sure you mentioned or explained a something about this… i’m just better with scissors & tape.
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chris says: January 11, 2010 at 11:20 pm
rain: at the moment you can put them in a page (same as a post) but not in the sidebar. I’ll see if I can make them work as widgets.
The tat are not necessarily the most recent numbers, it depends on the “cache” setting you put in your [wibstats] code.
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matbaa says: March 21, 2010 at 12:18 pm
That is really good. what about the cache?