Here’s another good plugin that I’ve come across, installed and already have found it to be a very useful addition: Google Analyticator. It’s an incredibly useful plugin for WordPress, especially if you’re trialling different themes, building multiple blogs or managing multiple sites. It does all the hard work or you of adding the necessary code so that Google Analytics can start tracking your site. It also ncludes a handy dashboard feature for displaying visitor and site stats right there on your blog’s dashboard. Of particular interest to me is the ability of hiding Administrator visits from the stats to give a truer representation of visitor numbers – and there are a host of other features that build on this invaluable Google tool.

According to the WordPress summary, Google Analyticator has the following features:

  • Supports standard Google Analytics tracking via the latest async tracking methods (faster and more reliable than the older ga.js tracking method)
  • Includes an admin dashboard widget that displays a graph of the last 30 days of visitors, a summary of site usage, the top pages, the top referrers, and the top searches
  • Includes a widget that can be used to display visitor stat information on the front-end
  • Supports outbound link tracking of all links on the page, including links not managed by WordPress
  • Supports download link tracking
  • Supports event tracking with outbound links / downloads instead of the old pageview tracking method
  • Allows hiding of Administrator visits without affecting Google Analytics’ site overlay feature
  • Supports any advanced tracking code Google provides
  • Installs easily – unlike other plugins, the user doesn’t even have to know their Analytics UID
  • Provides complete control over options; disable any feature if needed
  • Supports localization – get the settings page in your language of choice

Find out more here: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/google-analyticator/ or the author’s home page is here: http://ronaldheft.com/code/analyticator/