Paquin's Poorly Maintained Blog » metrics http://www.chrispaquin.com/ppmb Sat, 04 Sep 2010 20:43:17 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Site Metrics http://www.chrispaquin.com/ppmb/2009/site-metrics/ http://www.chrispaquin.com/ppmb/2009/site-metrics/#comments Sun, 08 Mar 2009 13:23:00 +0000 Chris http://www.chrispaquin.com/ppmb/?p=536 I continue to be impressed with WordPress’s drop-dead-easy and flawless operations. For fun, I decided to give Google’s Site Analytics system a try, and, as I’ve come to expect, it was easy and just worked, with no manual coding required. Analytics does require the addition of some javascript to each page, of course, and I could have edited the theme’s header.php file to handle this, but a quick search in the Admin console brought up several plugin options, and I was able to install and configure one within minutes.

Google Analytics is a very powerful system – I was impressed with the number of reports and the granularity of them. It doesn’t do real-time reporting, so I had to wait 24 hours for my first set of results, but what do you want for nothing?

I’m also messing around with Google Apps for small business (or personal domains). Right now, mail to addressATchrispaquin.com just gets sucked into my regular gmail account (and then accessed via Thunderbird), but it’ll be fun to play with this tool.

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