WP Statistics WordPress Plugin How To

In order to manage your website properly, you need to keep track of your visitors. By analyzing the visitor data, you can make appropriate decisions for your website. WP Statistics WordPress plugin offers a complete solution for keeping track of visitor statistics and other relevant details of your website.

In order to use the plugin, download and install it first. Activating the plugin will create a new menu item titled ‘Statistics’ in your website dashboard.

Using WP Statistics

WP Statistics provides visitor information through various sections. I will introduce you to all the sections one-by-one.

Overview

You can access the ‘Overview’ section by going to Statistics > Overview. The page will provide you with a short summary of all the available statistics of your website. Besides the visitor summary, you will be able to view the originating countries of your visitors, number of search engine referrals, browser percentage, recent visitors, top referring sites, top 10 countries, etc. It is possible to minimize and/or maximize any widget.

Browsers

The next section, ‘Browsers’, will provide detailed information about the browsers that your visitors have used to visit the site. Besides pie charts of browsers and platforms, you will have version details for the browsers too.

Countries

The ‘Countries’ page provides information about the countries the visitors of your site are from. Besides the country name, the number of visitors will also be displayed for each country.

Hits

In this page, you will find a chart showing the total visitors for a specific period of time. By default, the chart is displayed for the last 20 days. You can also choose to display the 10 day, 30 day, 2/3/6/9 months or 1 year charts. Additionally, it is also possible to define a custom date range.

Online

This page displays the list of visitors who are currently visiting your website. The information includes the browsers they use and the duration of their stay in the website.

Pages

Here, you will find a graph for the trending pages of your site along with a list of the top pages. The top pages are accompanied by the visit count. Like the Hits section, you can choose various time durations for the chart too.

Referrers

This page displays a complete list of all the referrers to your website. Each referrer includes a reference count.

Searches

As the name suggests, this page displays a trending graph for the visitors that came to your website from different search engines. This page also supports various time durations.

Search Words

Here, you will find out the search terms that the visitors have used to find your website.

Top Visitors Today

This is the page where you can view the top 100 visitors of your website for the current day.

Visitors

This page displays a detailed list of all the visitors of your website. Each visitor is accompanied by additional information like IP address, browser, date, etc.

Setting up WP Statistics

In order to set up various options for the plugin, go to Statistics > Settings. The settings page is helpfully divided into several tabs. From the ‘General’ tab, you can enable or disable various plugin features and customize them.

From the ‘Notifications’ tab, you can enable notifications for various updates and statistics and define the email address for receiving the notifications.

The ‘Dashboard/Overview’ tab lets you choose whether to display the widgets or not. From the ‘Access/Exclusions’ tab, you can define which users can access and manage the settings for the plugin. ‘GeoIP’ tab includes options to customize the visitor’s data collection system. From the ‘Removal’ tab, you can choose to remove the saved data and custom settings when the plugin is uninstalled.

Final Words

As you can see, WP Statistics is provided with lots of powerful and useful features. It is not possible to discuss all of them in a single article. Therefore, I have intentionally kept my discussion limited.
However, if you want to know more about a specific feature, let me know by leaving a comment below. I will try my best to help you.