Stats Blog Switcher
Let’s be honest, we know you guys are looking at you stats all day. In fact, as we speak we’re migrating our stats system to a new set of servers to make it even speedier for you to reload all day and keep up with the millions of pageviews you’re all getting.
Our latest improvement to the stats system is pretty simple but we hope you’ll like it anyway. It’s basically a quick way to switch between your different blog stats:
This allows you to switch quickly between your different blog and feed stats for multiple blogs you might have.
As you may have picked up on, we’re trying to make the Dashboard part of the Dashboard more global, allowing you to easily access all your blog information in one logical place.
Dec 14th at 8:36 am
Hey, I just saw this feature. And I must say, it helps me a lot. Thanks a lot!
Dec 14th at 8:42 am
good idea… I was using the tabbed windows on Firefox just to keep open both the Dashboard, the bloig and… the stats page!… Of all my 3 blogs.
Thanks!
Dec 14th at 8:44 am
Nice piece of improvement, good job and keep on improving… thanks.
Dec 14th at 8:47 am
Hey thanks for this feature. Really helped. Now, if only it’s easier to switch between blogs for all the manage dashboard features! Thanks again.
Dec 14th at 9:00 am
Even though I’m only styling one blog, this is a nice addon. Nice work guys and thanks ^^
Dec 14th at 9:02 am
A step in the good direction. A couple things I would love to see implemented here:
1. In the stats, I would like to know how many returning visitors I get each day. A table that shows total visitors, first time visitors and returning visitors perhaps.
2. It would be handy if I could switch to my other blog dashboard or, even better (as you say you are going to do), work on both blogs from the same dashboard. Post a new article on blog 1 or 2 from the dashboard, for example, without the need to switch.
Dec 14th at 9:09 am
It’s the little things that count, as they say
Thank you!
Dec 14th at 9:15 am
Really, really useful! This’ll save a lot of clicking back and forth. Thanks!
Dec 14th at 9:18 am
i have a problem viewing in 800 x 600 resolution.. or is it just me?
Dec 14th at 9:22 am
Hey, my post stats work now when they never did before. lol
Dec 14th at 9:29 am
gradiosa12, it’s not designing to really work on anything less than 1024×768 right now, but I’ll look at what we can do for folks with really small screens.
Dec 14th at 9:29 am
Oh yes, that’s very snazzy!
Nice job.
Dec 14th at 9:31 am
Yaay! Rulez! I really need it! Thanks
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Dec 14th at 9:31 am
Thanks. I hate to admit that I look at the stats … but I do. And wordpress makes it easy
Dec 14th at 9:31 am
More stats,just what we all needed!
Dec 14th at 9:40 am
Maybe i’m just stupid. But i have yet to figure out how to be in dashboard and click to my other blog. The only way i’ve figured out is to replace the blog name in the address bar.
On the other hand when you’re logged in and viewing a blog, you can always move your mouse over the dashboard in the top left and pick which dashoard you want to go to.
Dec 14th at 9:44 am
Excellent Idea! We don’t have to keep switching dashboards now.
Dec 14th at 9:45 am
Cairene, you’re not dumb, that’s just too hard right now. We’re going to make it easier.
Dec 14th at 9:46 am
This is great. I’ve had this problem that I had to switch between Dashboards to see the stats, this is so much better.
Thanks, guys.
Dec 14th at 9:56 am
and this is encouraging us to create more blogs!
hmmm!
Dec 14th at 9:58 am
THX TO U, good job.
Dec 14th at 10:04 am
Erhm, btw, Matt… what is a “Updates” tab in your screenshot?
Some beta-feature or what? 
Dec 14th at 10:21 am
This is very good!!
Dec 14th at 10:27 am
cool… nice improvement! thanx…
Dec 14th at 10:34 am
Dec 14th at 10:47 am
Yay…makes it so much easier to view stats without having to switch dashboards!
Dec 14th at 11:11 am
Definitely, make things easier alot!
Dec 14th at 11:42 am
I’m crazy about wordpress now. (: Although like many, I only have one wp blog because one is more than we can ask for – at least for me. You guys are a wonder; makes me proud to use wordpress! (:
Dec 14th at 11:48 am
Yeah… just what we need, another excuse not to move. “Just a few fewer finger movements per day”, that’s exactly what the doctor told me just the other day. “Really, you’re just not sedentary enough.” Holy crap Matt, when did they get you on the payroll of the Artifical Heart Industrial Complex? Jesus. Take a frigging break, seriously, just a few weeks. Anymore help like this and I’m going to fuse with the freaking keyboard.
Dec 14th at 12:01 pm
I noticed the stats feature this morning. Great idea. I have a smaller screen also so the text is truncated but the stats part works fine.
Dec 14th at 12:42 pm
A great idea…but it would be need to resize the graph …actually i don’t see the last part with the stat of the day…
Thanks for all!
Astasia
Dec 14th at 1:05 pm
While I only have one blog now, this is a very welcome addition, except for the 800×600 problem. Wouldn’t an horizontal menu work just as well ?
Dec 14th at 1:07 pm
chaught … thx
Dec 14th at 1:08 pm
Thanks guys!
Suggestion… we’d love to see an ability to look at historical status over a year or a number of months.
“in your spare time”
Dec 14th at 1:11 pm
Wooo Hooooo! I love it!
And I would also like to know about repeat visitors, more about where viewers are finding me, etc.
Dec 14th at 1:28 pm
Yeah! Great feature stumbled upon by accident. Thank you!
Dec 14th at 1:30 pm
Man this site is great! I can’t believe all of the things you offer! Thanks!
Dec 14th at 1:30 pm
thanks.
it’s nice to have them in the same place.
Dec 14th at 1:38 pm
Thanks, nice work. Saves our time
Dec 14th at 1:42 pm
cool ness….thank u
Dec 14th at 1:44 pm
NAyk said it best.
Dec 14th at 1:49 pm
First Sonific and now this! Thank you, thank you, *thank* you!
Dec 14th at 2:23 pm
This is a terrific improvement. Thanks!
Dec 14th at 2:30 pm
Nice one. You guys are doing an excellent work!
Dec 14th at 2:33 pm
This is a great improvement, even though I really don’t get many pageviews, but I still constantly look at the stats for my two blogs.
Dec 14th at 2:36 pm
Tx!
Can something be done to make posts into whichever blog we want from a single Posting window?
Mebbe thatz too much to ask!
Dec 14th at 3:10 pm
Kewl. I noticed this in the morning. Nice system.
In fact, as we speak we’re migrating our stats system to a new set of servers to make it even speedier for you to reload all day
By the way, is that why my blog seems to be getting redirects or data from a.wordpress.com? [While loading the page]
Dec 14th at 3:21 pm
Pretty useful…but for now i just have one blog ^^
Greetings!
Dec 14th at 3:22 pm
Another great feature, thank-you!
Dec 14th at 3:43 pm
Good job, Matt!
Dec 14th at 4:00 pm
Nice.
Dec 14th at 4:03 pm
This is very good.
Dec 14th at 4:19 pm
Sounds good to me
Dec 14th at 4:21 pm
This is fantastic, been praying for something like this but have been to lazy to bring it up in the forums, glad someone else thought of it too.
Great team we have here at WP!
Dec 14th at 4:28 pm
Any chance you could fix the problem with trying to look at the stats for an individual post?
It only shows the total if the post has a very small title.
Dec 14th at 4:30 pm
Thanks, Matt, this is a very useful feature. But lose the Yankees hat.
Dec 14th at 4:51 pm
Unfortunately, that image is just about what I see; I cannot see the graph results for the last two days, as they are off the page to the right. And I cannot scroll left-right either. I hope you guys get this fixed. I’m a stat junkie.
On the other hand, I am saving a helluva lot of time every day.
Dec 14th at 4:55 pm
For those of us with only one blog, it’s looks kind of funny sitting over there pulling the eye left. It shouldn’t be too hard for the code to distinguish between people with only one blog (and omit the switcher) and those with multiple blogs (who could actually use it).
On another stats-related point, I still feel like the stats graphs should baseline at zero, rather than “the lowest number over the last thirty days”.
The current system tends to visually exaggerate changes (making a change of 100 to 200 look like a factor of 100 rather than a factor of 2 change.)
Edward Tufte, in “The Visual Display of Quantitative Information,” calls this the “lie factor” and warns against it — after pointing to a lot of embarrassing examples in USA Today statshots etc. So, I’d still love to see this change made.
Dec 14th at 4:56 pm
That Stats Blog Switcher is cool
Thx Matt 
Dec 14th at 5:06 pm
Thank you. This is a convenience I will use frequently.
Dec 14th at 5:27 pm
This is a terrific idea. Thanks for putting it together. Am I the only person though who can’t see today’s stats? They’re over there at the far right of the screen and although I can click on the day, the number’s off the screen.
Dec 14th at 5:37 pm
This is one of those things that I wish we had an option to display or not. Since I only have one blog, it is useless to me. And it messes up the display in Mozilla, forcing me to widen the screen to see the actual stats. At the least, couldn’t it be smaller and less obtrusive? Or how about putting it across the top instead of down the side?
Dec 14th at 5:55 pm
Totally coolisimo! Thanks Matt!
Dec 14th at 6:32 pm
You keep improving everyday! Awesome! I love WordPress!
Dec 14th at 6:38 pm
Noticed that today, very useful for us multi bloggers, check up on the less posted ones, thanks.
Dec 14th at 7:39 pm
Love it! Easy to see both my sites! WP: yall are too cool!
Dec 14th at 8:07 pm
Yipe! I’m supposed to feed more than one of these unholy beasts?
Dec 14th at 9:07 pm
thanks
Dec 14th at 9:27 pm
that’s more easy, thank you!
Dec 14th at 9:41 pm
yeah, really nice:)
I love looking at my stats^^
Dec 14th at 3:11 pm
a.wordpress.comis our domain that serves avatars. You may see a few other of those single letter subdomains in the next few days, as we’ll put javascript, images, and such on different ones to speed things up.Dec 14th at 10:28 pm
Very naiz. Thank you.
Dec 14th at 11:05 pm
I agree with Mr. Rogers!
Dec 14th at 11:45 pm
Something you might want to consider adding to the stats section is a counter for the pages of your blog. Not just the posts, but the pages as well – if that makes sense… *shrugs*
Dec 14th at 11:53 pm
This is why I switched over from Blogger – could never find out how to put stats on my blog there, so when I heard WP could provide this I moved immediately!
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Dec 15th at 12:33 am
great, because now i can see the stats of one post
Thank you!
Dec 15th at 1:17 am
thanks, it’s a nice features.
Dec 15th at 3:06 am
Pretty cool, now I can look at my zero views for multiple blogs!
Dec 15th at 3:25 am
Perfect!
Thank You!
Dec 15th at 3:44 am
Excellent. Improvements that make the management of two blogs more efficient are warmly welcomed.
Dec 15th at 4:04 am
Thanks for doing such a great job!
Dec 15th at 4:41 am
A slide-bar was added at the bottom and that solved the problem of information on the right side being inaccessible. Thanks. The headings at the top are still competing for the same space, the one overwriting the other.
Dec 15th at 7:09 am
I love stats. They make me happy. You’re my hero. But you don’t have to wear a cape or stretchy pants.
Dec 15th at 10:11 am
I see only one “channel”.
Should I do something to add more statistic “channels” or I totally misunderstood this feature?
Dec 15th at 12:17 pm
yeah this is a great idea. i usually save my “stats” link to my Favourites, so i can viem them in a jiffy when i need to
everytime i want to see another blog i have to type the name into the address bar.
this saves lots of time.
gd job///
hairlarious.wordpress.com
Dec 15th at 5:14 pm
it could be nice to know the distribution of access from browser and operating systems (because I blog about Microsoft Windows Vista…)
Can you add this: stats for top referrers ?
Can you MOD this: let be more long the link title in the top posts. WHY to cut them !?
God work, I enjoy this site so much that I don’t think to install WP on a my site !
Dec 16th at 9:19 am
Great, thanks for adding this feature. I’d love if you could also add the blog-switching feature to the main dashboard itself. I have 5 blogs and right now i have to go ‘View site’ and from there get to my other blogs from the drop-down.
Dec 21st at 2:29 pm
The Stats will not improve my writing, but help me decipher the posts that are read or visited.
Dec 28th at 4:59 pm
muy buena idea
Jan 2nd at 12:21 pm
Yeah I noticed this feature few days ago and its great really.