What is the best Wordpress Analytics Plugin to use?
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I am installing a new instance of WordPress and want to use Google Analytics. Which Plug-in is the best to use?
I am finding several Plug-ins that all seem to do the same thing:
Google Analyticator
Google Analytics Dashboard
Simple Google Analytics
Ultimate Google Analytics
Wordpress Google Analytics
Maybe one of these are not the best? Any recommendations would be appreciated.
Thanks!
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Some of the plugins have features that will automatically tag the external links and downloadable items for you, which can be handy (Google Analyticator does this, for example).
A word of caution, from personal experience. If you need to do anything custom with GA, don't use a plugin as well as the custom GA, unless you want your bounce rate to fall to almost zero and a couple of other metrics to be off because you have two instances of GA in use (for me, I have custom GA so I can integrate data from an ecommerce system).
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Hi,
I use Wordpress quite a lot and have found just adding the code to the pages works just great. So, suggest regular Google Analytics. Thats my two cents.....
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Hmm, Woopra looks cool. Gonna check it out
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Ty for the info about Woopra, I just checked their faq and i'm already trying it and seems so..real time lol
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I use GA (just edit the footer and add it), but I am also madly in love with Woopra. You get real time analytics and it's very easy to use. There is a WP plugin for it too if you don't want to add it manually.
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I always just do this. It's something simple enough that you don't really need a plugin for it.
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I use Google Analyticator for my Wordpress Blogs. It handles inserting the code in the write place and all you have to worry about is the options for the plug-in. You still get all the free goodness of Google Analytics and you also get the ease of configuration of a WP plug-in.
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I am not a WP user, but I am curious as to why you can't just use GA by putting the code within the header of each page? WP, I would think, has to allow you this access.
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