Information Technology Reference
In-Depth Information
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Figure 8.2
The full page
gives you a
lot of statisti-
cal detail.
This page includes many different types of information pulled together in one useful page. Here's a
quick overview of what's on offer:
•
Views per Day, Week, Month graph
—This graph can be
quickly switched using the tabs Days, Weeks, and Months.
This is a great way to get both detail and perspective on your
blog's activity.
•
Referrers
—These are sites people linked to your blog from. If
you're getting mentions in other blogs, you can see which
ones are driving traffic to you (and encourage more).
•
Search Engine Terms
—These are the search terms that peo-
ple are entering before they come to your blog. You need to be
scoring fairly high on these terms for your blog to be getting
much traffic from them.
•
Top Posts and Pages
—Here's where the traffic is going. You
can examine your more popular posts to see just what makes
them so much cooler than the less-popular ones.
caution
As you click on links from your
WordPress Stats page for differ-
ent areas—Referrers, Search
Engine Terms, and so on—
detailed results appear on their
own page. However, the pages
all have the same title, Stats:
blogname
, even though the
details are different. Pay close
attention to keep track of what
page you're on, and which of the
stats pages you've visited or not.
