Take a look at some of the most popular stats plugins for WordPress. WP-stats, Google Analytics for WordPress, and WordPress.com Stats will undergo a comparison to identify which plugin has the features that bloggers need most.

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4. How much information?

6. Just the Facts Ma’am

7. How to Install Plugins Login to your self-hosted WordPress Blog and click “add new”.

8. How to Install Plugins Do a search for the theme you want.

9. How to Install Plugins Click on the “Install Now” button.

10. WP-Stats

14. Tell Me More…

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17. WordPress.com Stats Take your website to the nextSTEPH www.nextsteph.com

18. Referrers & Post/Pages Take your website to the nextSTEPH www.nextsteph.com

19. Search & Posts

20. Summary

21. Search Terms

22. Sharing Secrets with Google

23. Sharing Secrets with Google

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25. WordPress.com Stats dashboard

26. WordPress.com Stats dashboard

27. Sifting For Gold

28. Installing Google Analytics www.google.com/analytics

29. Google Analytics

30. Google Analytics Go back to the plugin configuration and put in you UA account number from Google Analytics.

31. Google Analytics

32. Google Analytics Top Content (pages and/or posts)

33. Geography by State

34. Browsers

35. Operating Systems

36. Google Analytics Keywords

37. WordPress Stats Showdown Graph Attribute WP-Stats WordPress.com Stats Google Analytics Instant Gratification Yes No No Post/Page Stats Yes Yes Yes Comment Stats Yes Yes No Views or Visitors Views Views Visitors Referrals/Sources No Yes Yes Keywords/ Search Engines No Yes Yes Graphs No Yes Yes Geo Reporting No No Yes Date ranges No Fixed (week, month, quarter, year, all time) Yes (custom) Browser, Operating System, Connection Speed… No No Yes

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