New Historical Post Stats
We’ve added some new features to the stats system. When you got to your blogs stats on your dashboard you’ll notice next to each of the top posts for a given day there is a “stats” link. (We’re going to have a nifty icon for this.)
If you click on that, it will take you to the historical stats for that given post. You can see how the popularity of a post evolved over time. Most posts probably start out with lots of hits and then go down, but some may spike if you get a link from something like Digg. It will also tell you how many views total that post has gotten.
We’ve also brought back the total posts, comments, tags, and Akismet stats as the fourth box on the stats page, so you can now see these stats all in one place again.
Update: We now have a cool stats icon — 
— care of Bryan.
Nov 4th at 8:08 am
Pretty cool. I sent you some feedback about some issues I saw.
How much of a database hit is this? If it isn’t too bad, it would be really nice to see the totals on the Manage Posts pages.
Thanks Matt.
Nov 4th at 8:26 am
That is an excellent addition. I was surprised when I went to my stats page to see the change, but I love seeing the trends for particular posts. Thanks for feeding my stats addiction.
Nov 4th at 8:35 am
This is a really good news as I missed the old Stats… When I got to my page today I noticed the change and had my time checking on the spesific posts
… Great amendment!
Nov 4th at 8:36 am
I like it. I have noticed lately that some of my posts have been viewed a long time after they were posted and it’s nice to see the stats of them.
Great job, guys.
Nov 4th at 8:39 am
First to say THANKS
Nov 4th at 8:40 am
Wow this is absolutely fantastic. As a lot of my pieces are information based they do not really get dated and this is exactly what I wanted. Stats on each piece. Can’t thank you guys enough.
Nov 4th at 8:40 am
Wow!
Nov 4th at 8:55 am
The Blog Stats page is awesome now. I noticed that the total hits for posts with long titles are not visible, the post title also comes to an abrupt end.
Nov 4th at 8:59 am
It`s great! WP goes to a leading scientific blog
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Nov 4th at 9:09 am
Nice, I quite like that.
At the moment it appears that I can only access the stats of a post if it’s in the Top Posts list, but is it going extend to all posts written?
Here’s a feature I’d like, but I haven’t got a clue how workable it is though, and that is to be able to see which pages people are viewing as opposed to which posts. At the moment I haven’t a clue if they visit a page unless they leave a comment.
Nov 4th at 9:14 am
Thank you, Matt, for giving us back an even better statistics dashboard. What would be now of real value is a “Personal Top 10 List of Posts”. I (and the others) would like to know which of the own posts where best in the own ecosystem.
[But then it's enuff statistics
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Nov 4th at 9:31 am
brilliant feature. nice to see the rise and fall of posts.
but the new dashboard is not that great. i like the old boxes.
Nov 4th at 9:49 am
I’ve seen it. Thats a great feature! Thx!
Nov 4th at 9:50 am
*checks out* Ooooo – this is groovy! Much appreciated work on setting this up, Matt!
Nov 4th at 9:51 am
wooooooooooooooow
Nov 4th at 10:02 am
Outstanding! Been wanting something like this forever…well, ever since Vivian suggested it!
Nov 4th at 10:24 am
Thanks Matt….. Good work! Prefer this to the new dashboard, our stats page needed an upgrade anyway.
Nov 4th at 10:36 am
Yup, just logged in and checked it out. Looks pretty cool
Nov 4th at 10:47 am
cool!
Nov 4th at 10:58 am
Wow! That’s pretty darn cool!
I’ve only been on WordPress for about 4 months and I’m stunned how a great system just seems to get better and better.
Do you guys ever actually sleep?
Nov 4th at 11:03 am
useful!
it wold be better if there were a list of ALL posts with the relative sub-stat…but it’s a very good beginning, thank you!
still waiting for out/inbound links stats!
Nov 4th at 11:06 am
That’s awesome! I wish my stats looked even vaguely like that
Nov 4th at 11:12 am
Very cool. Now I’ll have to dig back through my old posts to see how they’ve done. Thank you!
Nov 4th at 11:23 am
I love it! Kudos to the WP team.
Thanks for providing ‘Totals’ in stats. I thought I missed them in my dashboard.
Nov 4th at 11:24 am
This is great!
Nov 4th at 11:45 am
Nice, good feature!!
Nov 4th at 11:57 am
this is really good, much much better than the stats summary in the old dashboard – that said i still don’t prefer the new dashboard. but the blog stats is excellent now. if only we can know stats for page views next…
Nov 4th at 12:00 pm
perfect!
Nov 4th at 12:00 pm
love the new features.
can you please add a ‘today’s visits’ to the static box on the bottom ? sometimes i use linux on ppc and the flash animations don’t work.
i can see where people came from, total of visits and all of the information but not the number of visitors for the day.
it’s seems that this information is only available in the flash thing at the top.
apart from that, it’s very cool.
Nov 4th at 12:06 pm
Great!
It will be lovely to take an “All time most viewed posts” just to know which is you star post
On the stats page, I think it would be a good idea a way to quickly view how many visits cma from a websearch engine, how many from a reference, and how many directly.
Congratulations, really great tool WordPress
Nov 4th at 12:07 pm
nice
Nov 4th at 12:18 pm
Great work (this probably sounds repetitive
)
One thing that I am hoping to see at some point is those referrals from less known search engines and image searches out of the referrals list.
Nov 4th at 12:18 pm
Awesome feature!!!
Shot!!
Nov 4th at 12:23 pm
Nice and useful improvements, thanks
Nov 4th at 12:26 pm
The changes are very nice. I like graphs, so the stats feature is great.
Nov 4th at 12:28 pm
This is just so cool.
Nov 4th at 12:35 pm
Awesome. Thanks.
Nov 4th at 12:51 pm
Good work again, guys!
Nov 4th at 12:57 pm
Now I’m happy.
Nov 4th at 1:30 pm
Lovely.
Nov 4th at 1:44 pm
Pretty nify – I do like the way WordPress is developing all this kind of information – great for dummies like me.
Nov 4th at 2:09 pm
Really cool! Thanks.
Nov 4th at 2:11 pm
This is too cool, thanks. btw dont shame us with your own stats
Nov 4th at 2:17 pm
Love this. This helps me to see what topics are most interesting over time to my readers… THANK YOU!
Nov 4th at 2:27 pm
Nice.the stats feature is great.
And Thanks
Nov 4th at 2:28 pm
This is great information to have. Thanks!
Nov 4th at 2:35 pm
Cool, good work.
Nov 4th at 2:56 pm
Y’all never cease to come up with ways of keeping the dashboard side of the blog fresh and innovative. Yet another reason to blog with Word Press!
Thanks for the great work and keep it up!
Nov 4th at 3:06 pm
I love the update. Thanks!!!!
Nov 4th at 3:13 pm
excellent!! you guys make wp really really easy and nice to use.
Nov 4th at 3:30 pm
Great addition. I think it would be even cooler if you could add, on the page showing how many views for the selected post, how many total views that post has received.
Nov 4th at 3:38 pm
I love stats!
Nov 4th at 3:58 pm
Groovy, all the more reason I am glad I switched over to WordPress a couple months back.
Nov 4th at 4:05 pm
Very cool. Many thanks.
Nov 4th at 4:07 pm
Cooool!!! This rocks! I had been requesting this for quite some time. And can we have this in a consolidated tabular format too…?
Nov 4th at 4:33 pm
Hey… thats pretty cool! Thanks guys!
Nov 4th at 5:20 pm
Great. Thanks.
It would be nice to have sort of classification, starting from the most read topic down. So we know what type of topics people likes the most.
Nov 4th at 5:26 pm
This is a nice feature. It is always nice to see the numbers and how your blog is doing
Nov 4th at 5:26 pm
Cool! I like it.
Nov 4th at 6:34 pm
Three cheers for Andy and company. I’m truly impressed by the stats improvements. I can almost envision a day when I may give my other meters the boot.
Nov 4th at 6:48 pm
This is nice.
Nov 4th at 7:52 pm
perhaps a total hits per post will be much more useful then monitoring the hits of a post over a period.
just two cents worth of opinion…
cheers!
Nov 4th at 7:56 pm
Nice addon.. thanks!
can we have the #hits, #post, #comments on a widget? that would be cool..
Nov 4th at 8:09 pm
Knowing the popularity of my blog, I think I’d rather know why anyone bothers reading it rather than how few do!!!
However, nice work… 
Nov 4th at 8:13 pm
What a great new feature. And such a nice surprise when I came to WP today.
Mama Kelly
Nov 4th at 9:47 pm
This is good, but I think you guys are still missing the boat…
Looking at the number of hits on a given post over a given period of time is all well and good, but it leaves me unsatisfied. To the point where I am considering migrating to another service.
Here’s why: If I want to understand why a given post attracts, for example, a spike in hits, the tracking analytics on WordPress do not give me the ability to do so. With WordPress, I can’t see how a person may have linked to one of my posts. I can’t see how what I posted was taken up and commented on by others. And if I can’t do that, then I ‘m not really part of the blogosphere as it’s commonly understood.
If you don’t want to let people use javascript (and I can understand your issues here) then you should at least provide decent tracking analytics. Your continued failure to do so has me looking for another blog service.
Nov 4th at 10:31 pm
Great job guys. really well done
Nov 5th at 1:18 am
Exquisite! Thanks
Nov 5th at 1:31 am
‘Thanks a lot bringing back the stats. How nice it would have been if you could display all the five (or 6, including Akismet protection)stat items right on the top (preferably on blue horizontal strip itself, or just below it in horizontal line, separated by commas)to view them at a glance alonside the graph. These stats are the most important aspect of a blog for any blogger, you will agree. This will also release some of the space on the page. Thanks in anticipation.
Nov 5th at 1:41 am
Nice one – and very useful. Don’t like the dashboard, but I do like the stats.
Nov 5th at 1:53 am
I really like the layout and it makes it really convenient to look at it all on one page. Great job guys on constantly improving the use of tools on here!
Nov 5th at 2:39 am
Good stuff!
But this is also time to make some requests. First one is what many have asked: stats for every post. Second is a All-time Top Posts side-bar widget. Will wait…
Nov 5th at 2:54 am
Great Job again matt
Nov 5th at 3:23 am
again, congratulations!
job well done!
Nov 5th at 3:27 am
Ooooohhh!!! I love this new stats page, I’m a sucker for numbers. I think this’ll be my favourite feature of WordPress!
Great job guys! Another reason for me to love WordPress all the more!
Nov 5th at 3:39 am
Superb fun. Until now I didn’t really bother with stats, but I can now see why they are addictive! Seriously, though, I am amazed; you seem to be working very hard behind the scenes to take us by surprise like this all the time. You are appreciated.
Nov 5th at 4:15 am
Just great! I’m stats addicted too. Thanks, guys.
Nov 5th at 4:55 am
Thanks. This is a great addition to the stats page, and one that I have been wishing for for a long time. I just wish that I could see the totals for posts with longer titles–as it is presently the title cuts off and it doesn’t show the totals.
I also wish that I could see this information in summary form–just like you have a page that summarizes the top posts for the last 7 days and one that summarizes the top posts for the last 30 days. I wish that you could add a similar page that shows the top posts for all time, with the totals for each post.
Nov 5th at 5:29 am
Fantastic. I like the simplicity of it. Just been playing around with the stats page and it’s nice to see the breakdown of each post. Once again good work you WordPress boffins you.
Nov 5th at 5:39 am
this is one of the coolest feature ever! Now people know what to write what not to write ha ha
Nov 5th at 5:40 am
quick suggestion – if you could bring the – see stats links neat edit this for each post – it would be really really neat!!
Nov 5th at 6:15 am
Not a bad one … tnx
Nov 5th at 7:02 am
i think it would be better if the tracking of hits will be per year.. not just for months.. too ambitious he?.. jowk..
great addition..
Nov 5th at 10:21 am
This is a cool one, i quite like it. Although i still prefer the old dashboard…
Nov 5th at 10:30 am
Great, two thumbs up… Anything after the dash thing has to be good.
Nice addition. I like the fact that you can see the total hits for a specific post – something I have been wondering on more popular posts that I have done. Thanks
Nov 5th at 12:26 pm
I say just implement a customized version of Mint, and *everyone* would be happy
Nov 5th at 2:18 pm
This is one thing I have been waiting to see improvements on and well… you guys are just outdoing yourselves. Congrats again.
Nov 5th at 4:06 pm
Very useful and cool, thanks
Nov 5th at 4:13 pm
a good change after dashboard
goody power state
thank matty matt !!
Nov 5th at 4:58 pm
I like it.
Nov 5th at 5:11 pm
Excelent.
Nov 5th at 5:41 pm
Qualifying my comment somewhat -I agree with Rohan Quinby above. while I do like the change to the stats as an improvement, I heartily agree that for someone who wants to really analyse their reader stats, wp stats doesn’t really tell you anything. Unless you know they why, the how and the who it’s really just another number.
Nov 5th at 5:50 pm
This is great! Thanks for the continual improvement of the site. I love wordpress!
Nov 5th at 6:09 pm
wow !!!
Great
thankx
Nov 5th at 6:29 pm
I really like this thing..
Nov 5th at 6:35 pm
I love this! Now I’m going to be even more obssesed with the checking of the stats. Thank you!
Nov 5th at 7:02 pm
nifty
Nov 5th at 7:07 pm
Pretty nice, I really like improvements of the statistics area