pMetrics Stats

I’m a stats whore. I’ll admit it.

I love seeing how many people come visit my site, where they come from, what they do. I guess I’m just nosy.

For ages I’ve been looking for that perfect stats program.

Sure, the stats provided by Wordpress.com are pretty good (I can get them through a nifty plugin). But they don’t go into quite enough depth for me. I want something that I can waste a good amount of time looking at.

Google Analytics - it’s too big. I can’t figure it out. There’s too much stuff, and very little of what I want. That, and it takes several hours to update. I want real time, thank you very much.

For a while, I’ve been drooling over Mint. It looks nice. Seems like it’ll do everything I want it to. Only thing that’s been holding me back is that it costs $30 US. Feeling quite poor right now, splashing out for stats isn’t high on my list.

I almost did though.

Until I found pMetrics. I think these guys might be even better. A plugin integrates everything right into my Wordpress Dashboard. I can see all the usual stats stuff, like how many visitors, where they came from, etc etc.

But I can also see locations. Like, where in the world you all come from. Down to the city.

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I can assign different IPs names, so it’s easier to see exactly who’s visiting and doing what. I currenty just assigned Shannon’s work PC, and Wendy. Could tell it was you guys because of your referrers ;)

It breaks the search hits you get down into search strings, keywords, and search engines. Better than a few others which only show the different search strings.

And the most fun feature for me is something called “Spy.”

Basically, it tracks in real time what’s happening on your site. You can leave the window open and it just updates everytime someone visits, showing where they come from, what they do, and where they go.

Cool huh?

Kinda scared now? I’m watching you….

It also integrates you feed stats from Feedburner, so you can keep track of everything all in the same place.

Go try it out.

October 12, 2007 | Filed Under Geek 

Comments

8 Responses to “pMetrics Stats”

  1. WendySkeleton on October 12th, 2007 5:43 pm
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    Are you calling me a stalker?! I gave that up a long time ago, you know.

  2. jayne d'Arcy on October 12th, 2007 7:36 pm
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    Well, it looked interesting but I spent about a half hour trying to get it to work. I think I still prefer sitemeter.com.

  3. Ben on October 13th, 2007 12:44 am
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    You know you’re always welcome here Wendy, stalking or no.

    Jayne - what was the problem? Download the wordpress plugin and go :D

  4. WendySkeleton on October 15th, 2007 12:27 am
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    I heard of another thing called Clicky. Don’t know if it has a map or not, but check it out.

  5. Ben on October 15th, 2007 7:20 pm
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    I believe it’s actually the same system. The pMetrics dude just resell - but they have cheaper upgrades, and the awesome WP plugin.

  6. Talea on October 16th, 2007 1:40 am
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    I don’t know why I’m commenting, since apparently now you can read my mind and all….

  7. jayne d'Arcy on October 16th, 2007 8:14 am
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    My dashboard kept disappearing whenever I activated the plugin.

  8. Romi on October 17th, 2007 4:03 pm
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    That is some crazy stuff; you’re freaking me out man, and NO, I didn’t get a hair-cut, it just looks wavy today…jeez…

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