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Have you ever pressed an elevator button more in the hope that it would go faster? A street crossing button?

I do that all the time, even though rationally I know that there is no connection between the two. It’s probably the same part of my brain that sometimes buys a lotto ticket when I fill up my car.

Here on WordPress.com I did the same thing, but on the stats screen. Sometimes there would be a bump in the stats and I was curious to what I owed the good fortune, yet I would click and click and click on the chart and nothing happened.

I like to imagine that a lot of you were also clicking on that chart hoping for something to happen, and that we had some sort of magic machine that could collect all the futile clicks and count them as votes. Luckily though we have a benevolent dictatorship here so there’s no need to vote, and when you click the chart it now does something.

The something it does is take you to a page that shows the stats just for the day you clicked on so you can see your top referrers, posts, clicks, everything you see on the normal page, just expanded.

We also tidied up the spacing on the tables and cleaned up the styling a little bit.

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by Matt

Posted: Saturday, July 14th, 2007 at 3:12 am. Filed in Features, Stats.

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  1. Patrick
    Jul 14th at 4:00 am

    nice! this is something i have always thought would pwn

  2. Shefali
    Jul 14th at 4:02 am

    I did that before this post appeared ! I love it :)

  3. Anita Marie
    Jul 14th at 4:05 am

    Yes!
    A new toy.
    You guys are just as cool as Santa

  4. Evan
    Jul 14th at 4:09 am

    Thanks a lot!

  5. Sarah
    Jul 14th at 4:18 am

    Let’s click then. ;)

  6. pakosuperstar
    Jul 14th at 4:22 am

    cool

  7. ChenZhen
    Jul 14th at 4:23 am

    Now THAT is cool!

  8. Former
    Jul 14th at 4:24 am

    OMG! Excellent!! Thank you, this is great, keep up the good work

  9. kaveetaakaul
    Jul 14th at 4:25 am

    Hey thats great Matt..tried and loved it. Also loved the way you introduced your post..the internal dialogue that precedes a click..cute.

    I know it sounds as if nothings gonna be enough, no matter what you do.. but I wish the incoming links were updated more often. There are those which I never get to know of since neither does it reflect on pingbacks or the ‘incoming links’ stats.

  10. antobilang
    Jul 14th at 4:26 am

    pertamax!!! :mrgreen:

  11. raincoaster
    Jul 14th at 4:30 am

    Nice, Matt. Thanks.

  12. antosamudra
    Jul 14th at 4:33 am

    nice :) thanks..

    i’m thinking of showing the stats to the visitors… hmm…

  13. abu ameerah
    Jul 14th at 4:39 am

    thanks for the update! : )

  14. mittins
    Jul 14th at 4:40 am

    rad news.

  15. Heather
    Jul 14th at 4:45 am

    nice. thanks!

  16. Nita
    Jul 14th at 4:52 am

    This is absolutely awesome! Thanks a lot for this wonderful feature. I am one of those who clicks and clicks and finally I decided that perhaps I have some sort of tic! Anyway, I like it when something happens and something very very useful is happening. :)

  17. azruavatar
    Jul 14th at 5:01 am

    Thank you. I’ve been clicking the whole time.

  18. Michael Sync
    Jul 14th at 5:01 am

    Oh.. very interesting…. great feature.. Thanks..

  19. tuttysan
    Jul 14th at 5:02 am

    Cool! Thank you.

  20. Joel
    Jul 14th at 5:04 am

    Hey, cool!

    Thanks!

  21. [KwZ]
    Jul 14th at 5:24 am

    Wow, I was looking forward to something like that. Again, good job.

  22. Cppd Officer
    Jul 14th at 5:25 am

    Wow great update!

  23. abarclay12
    Jul 14th at 5:34 am

    Nice. That’s a good touch.

  24. blayde
    Jul 14th at 5:43 am

    Woo, stats page always has the neatest features, thanks for some more!

  25. sulz
    Jul 14th at 6:10 am

    i did wonder if i did something to my browser because the spacing was just odd initially. ;) it’s an improvement though i still wish there’s a way to measure feed stats as well.

  26. Louisa
    Jul 14th at 6:39 am

    Thank you! :-)

  27. Chittaranjan
    Jul 14th at 6:40 am

    Thatz a Zing Thing!

    U Rule!

  28. diamondfistwerny
    Jul 14th at 6:48 am

    That’s very cool! Thank You. And I noticed the tidiness before I saw this bulletin. I thought maybe IE had an upgrade or something LOL

  29. NAyK
    Jul 14th at 6:54 am

    It’s like pandering to our obsession. Bad, bad, bad! :)

  30. lathanarasimhan
    Jul 14th at 7:04 am

    This is great. Specially for people like me, new to computers. thanks.

  31. celticprincess©
    Jul 14th at 7:58 am

    I, for one, really appreciate this because it gives me more information as to what my readers are looking for and reading. You just keep getting better;)

  32. Alasdair
    Jul 14th at 8:03 am

    Oh dear! My stats addiction just took another hit, cheers Mat.

  33. Anne
    Jul 14th at 8:47 am

    Thanks, that was a good idea…

  34. sams4n
    Jul 14th at 8:48 am

    Nice … nice …

  35. catzel
    Jul 14th at 8:53 am

    Thanks, this is a great update. Keep up the good work :D

  36. Adi
    Jul 14th at 9:13 am

    WOW! This is really great! keep up the good work, WP!

  37. peixesloucos
    Jul 14th at 9:19 am

    good job!

    thanks!

  38. anas
    Jul 14th at 9:26 am

    Really good news, I haven’t open that page. I’ll try it. Thanks Matt.

  39. poppy8sd
    Jul 14th at 9:31 am

    Now that is a lot of fun! I never tried clicking on the stats. Thanx Bunches! (Do all of us “A” types double-hit the “crosswalk” button? lol)

    Will it ever be possible to pick a date –backwards, to look up info? My Most Hits ever was December 20, but I missed it, didn’t see what readers were looking at. (Still miss Feed Stats….)

  40. nederhop074
    Jul 14th at 9:45 am

    This is verry usefull!,
    Thanks wp!

  41. cityintheclouds
    Jul 14th at 10:01 am

    Nice, I regularly check my stats- I dont know what I’d do without the stats page. Keep up the good work!

  42. grhomeboy
    Jul 14th at 10:13 am

    Matt, it seems you kept a few jolly good secrets (a magician usually, it is said, keeps them under his sleeve) from us during the Greek Bloggers Camp in Ios island, Greece, last June!

    Yesterday the Window Live Writer, today this, a new theme a couple of days before, and the list goes on.

    But, hey, if uou were to reviel them all at once, then maybe wp should move to Patmos island, the Apocalypse’s island! Thank you Matt for all the goodies you and your team delivers to us!

    All the best!

  43. savetheoc
    Jul 14th at 10:14 am

    Nice one! ;)

  44. Pat
    Jul 14th at 10:14 am

    nice, thank you

  45. letters
    Jul 14th at 10:34 am

    You realise this is no way to get a stats addict to kick the habit, right? ;-)

  46. Art
    Jul 14th at 11:15 am

    You mean that looking at my blog stats and clicking on that graph like 100 times a day didn’t make more people read my blog???

  47. yupri
    Jul 14th at 11:21 am

    thats really nice

  48. Vish
    Jul 14th at 11:27 am

    I admit, I clicked the stats even when I knew it didn’t do anything…

  49. nothoney
    Jul 14th at 11:54 am

    Very nice. Thank you.

    s.

  50. Lazza
    Jul 14th at 11:57 am

    Absolutely great!

  51. La spectatrice
    Jul 14th at 12:18 pm

    Thank you! This is a new feature I definitely will enyoy. ;-)

  52. Alexandre
    Jul 14th at 12:35 pm

    Goog :)

  53. Onasis
    Jul 14th at 12:42 pm

    Nice improvement. Thank you!

  54. Jim
    Jul 14th at 12:48 pm

    now that’s something awesome. :) muchos gracias!

  55. andyxl
    Jul 14th at 1:14 pm

    Yup thats nice. But I still want feed stats back …

  56. adminor
    Jul 14th at 1:17 pm

    great update for me. Thanks

  57. kayinmaine
    Jul 14th at 1:18 pm

    This is what I love about WordPress. It’s always evolving and improving. Much better than that other place, you know, it begins with a “B”…
    :-)

  58. ocanto
    Jul 14th at 1:34 pm

    Good feature. Well done :)

  59. dougs2cents
    Jul 14th at 1:38 pm

    SHUWEET!

    D.

  60. SoCalMuchacha
    Jul 14th at 2:18 pm

    VERY nice…thanks! :)

  61. Rae
    Jul 14th at 2:23 pm

    Thanks for the upgrade on the stats, I’ll let my staff know ASAP!

  62. Ronnie Ann
    Jul 14th at 2:45 pm

    WordPress really is the best. I just love cool stuff like this to play with. Thanks!

  63. nishugoyal
    Jul 14th at 2:50 pm

    Nice change!

  64. Keith Olbermann Is Evil
    Jul 14th at 3:04 pm

    You guys keep making this toy just better and better.

  65. Sunny
    Jul 14th at 3:34 pm

    Thank you for the update. I always click on the Stats like you mentioned. :)

  66. Janick
    Jul 14th at 3:44 pm

    Awesome!! YAY! :)

  67. somegosoftly
    Jul 14th at 3:46 pm

    SO, when people start reading my blog…that will be useful. :)

  68. adminor
    Jul 14th at 3:50 pm

    thanks

  69. furoshiki
    Jul 14th at 3:58 pm

    Dear Matt, you really know what pleases us, little bloggers addicted to our stats ups and downs. Nice update, thanks a lot!

  70. Sakib Al Mahmud
    Jul 14th at 4:14 pm

    Matt thanks

  71. Bahrom
    Jul 14th at 4:23 pm

    Great new feature!

  72. sungame
    Jul 14th at 4:27 pm

    Wow, this is exactly what I hoped would happen every time I clicked the stats…

  73. whymommy
    Jul 14th at 4:29 pm

    Coolness … great improvement!

  74. steffi
    Jul 14th at 4:31 pm

    OMG thanks for the cool feature!! :)

  75. Julio Fragoso
    Jul 14th at 5:06 pm

    nice dude. Very nice to see what i wanted

  76. Todd Alperovitz
    Jul 14th at 5:39 pm

    Great job! Keep up the good work!

  77. legoless
    Jul 14th at 5:57 pm

    OMG!!!!! Thats so kl!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Im gonna try it right now! :) :)

  78. navcity
    Jul 14th at 6:27 pm

    sounds like a plan

  79. QuillDancer
    Jul 14th at 6:42 pm

    Yay! [enthusiastic applause]

  80. Lauren
    Jul 14th at 7:00 pm

    Before I ask, they will answer.

  81. elexor
    Jul 14th at 7:38 pm

    Like Feed Stats? Please bring those back.

  82. timethief
    Jul 14th at 7:43 pm

    This is a great feature. Kudos for Andy. :)

  83. Merri Williams
    Jul 14th at 7:48 pm

    Yay! This will help me better understand what my readers want! You guys *rock*!

  84. jonasan
    Jul 14th at 7:55 pm

    awesome idea, thanks a bunch

  85. Jonathan Tardif
    Jul 14th at 8:07 pm

    Now THAT’S cool!

  86. salahudin
    Jul 14th at 8:42 pm

    SWEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEET

  87. Sankar Viruthachalam
    Jul 14th at 9:35 pm

    Nice feature :)

  88. Mr President
    Jul 14th at 9:52 pm

    This is something I’d always wanted but never enough to actually ask for. Sweet. Nice addition.

  89. natanzuelo
    Jul 14th at 9:52 pm

    Nice :-D I spent a lot of time on the stats page :-D

  90. ramoody5
    Jul 14th at 9:52 pm

    thnx for ur graet work

  91. Scott
    Jul 14th at 9:56 pm

    Thanks for cheering up my weekend!!!! Now I won’t have to worry so much if I miss a day or two of checking Ye Olde Stats Page!

    You guys are just as cool as Santa

    It truly is Christmas in July! :-D

  92. susaneb
    Jul 14th at 11:04 pm

    very cool. Sometimes I would like to know who has been there clicking my blog…what they were looking for…getting into their whole personal intent. Can’t do that yet!

    Susan

  93. Brad Trnavsky
    Jul 14th at 11:44 pm

    Awesome! Thanks!!!

  94. Rev. Fr. Jessie Somosierra, Jr.
    Jul 15th at 12:13 am

    Thanks a lot!

  95. shawal
    Jul 15th at 2:38 am

    Very…very…very good things…. Changing make a better you….

  96. spiritualoasis
    Jul 15th at 3:03 am

    This is great! Thank you!!

  97. TeacherJay
    Jul 15th at 4:05 am

    NICE! It would also be nice to see breakdowns by day/week/month somewhere on the site.

  98. nytexan
    Jul 15th at 4:55 am

    This is great. You guys are the best. Thank you.

  99. ladynada
    Jul 15th at 4:59 am

    thank you Matt. You look familiar.
    nada

  100. ♦Vegetsu Gokazama♦
    Jul 15th at 5:02 am

    Thenkens!

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