Posted: Wednesday, August 13th, 2008 at 9:36 am. Filed in Stats.
More Stats Charts
“Monkey butt” — a popular search term
A while back we added charts showing how many views each post got since it was written. Some folks noticed that we omitted days with zero views. Now those days are included and the chart correctly dips to zero.
Can you believe it took that long to fix such a little bug? The fix was four lines of code. It was less than an hour of work. We were remiss. To make it up to our faithful Stats addicts we added similar charts for Referrers, Search Terms, and Clicks. Feast your eyes:
This change applies to WordPress.com bloggers as well as self-hosted WordPress bloggers using the WordPress.com Stats plugin—no upgrade required!
You can access these new charts by clicking on the “stats” icon next to the appropriate referrer, search term, or number of clicks.
August 13th, 2008 at 9:45 am
good job, brotha…
(^_^)v
August 13th, 2008 at 10:33 am
Nice! And thanks!
August 13th, 2008 at 11:04 am
Awesome!
August 13th, 2008 at 11:06 am
genial!
August 13th, 2008 at 11:08 am
Very very cool! Thank you so much.
A stats addict
Mama Kelly
August 13th, 2008 at 11:13 am
Awesome. Hope to hear more of these improvments from the team.
August 13th, 2008 at 11:14 am
Thanks for this. Alltough I was never stroken by zero-hit days so far (or I didn’t notice it – because they were not shown).
I see a bigger problem in those obviously routine-like visits by layeredtech and ltdomains, and by several other texas-site; not always to be identified. I think that they are also counted in the statistics, though they are kind of “domestic”. Could they be eliminated in the count, or are they already?
Thanks a lot for your answer.
August 13th, 2008 at 11:15 am
tabasco22, our stats use javascript to only count real visitors, so the counts we show should not include robots or automatic visits.
August 13th, 2008 at 11:37 am
ok
August 13th, 2008 at 11:38 am
Alright! *2 thumbs up*
August 13th, 2008 at 11:45 am
Great! Thank you
August 13th, 2008 at 11:45 am
Thanks for fixing the bug. Yet another reason for people to use the superb WordPress blogging platform.
Jim Connolly
August 13th, 2008 at 12:12 pm
Wow, this is cool. Thanks!
August 13th, 2008 at 12:19 pm
Monkey butt?
Interesting but perhaps TMI?
How does one assess quality?
MadSilence
August 13th, 2008 at 12:28 pm
Cool!
August 13th, 2008 at 12:31 pm
Thanks!
August 13th, 2008 at 12:37 pm
Thanks!
August 13th, 2008 at 12:51 pm
woo-hoo! stats stats stats … gotta love ‘em!
August 13th, 2008 at 1:14 pm
I clicked into my admin to check the stats on my posts this morning, and what do I see over on the left. . . .STATS for people clicking onto links to my site. Another great feature for WordPress users.
Referrers, Search Terms, Clicks. . . .
Oh, WordPress, you are Da Bomb!
Thank you for thinking of us and for giving us all the wonderful ways to navigate and get the most out of our blogs.
WordPress Rules
August 13th, 2008 at 1:15 pm
great job!
August 13th, 2008 at 1:24 pm
Don’t spoil us so much or we will never upgrade!
August 13th, 2008 at 1:32 pm
This is what I needed
August 13th, 2008 at 1:32 pm
When can we have stats showing geographical information? And stats about users´ – first time, returning, etc? It would make WordPress even better than it already is. Thank you
August 13th, 2008 at 1:33 pm
pymequitacion, geographic location is definitely on the list, it’s a common request.
August 13th, 2008 at 1:39 pm
Thanks for fixin’ stuff. I luv the stats: more equals better.
August 13th, 2008 at 1:55 pm
Your candor over this bug is refreshing. In the shop where I work, if I suggested we say something like that to our clients, I’d get looked at as though I had just sprouted a second head.
August 13th, 2008 at 2:00 pm
Thanks for the stats updates! I <3 reading my stats page
August 13th, 2008 at 2:07 pm
Waw
It s better than the old one
August 13th, 2008 at 2:17 pm
nice article.
August 13th, 2008 at 2:42 pm
Huzzah! You guys really are the best. Thanks for caring and/or doing your job.
- Izi
August 13th, 2008 at 3:07 pm
Cool… I was wondering why that graph was messed up (although it did make my stats look more impressive, if I didn’t look at the axis labels.) It’s much easier to see things at a glance now, although I think it would make more sense as a histogram since it goes by whole days rather than continuous time. That way the total blue area would accurately represent the total number of visitors, and it wouldn’t look like there were, for example, 2.718 visitors at a certain time in between two days.
August 13th, 2008 at 3:18 pm
you should have a stat chart that shows how much you get each day, but not as a line graph. they should have the date on one side, and then the amount of visitors on the other side. they should also allow you to go back a couple months/years as well.
August 13th, 2008 at 3:52 pm
oh thank god…firstly i saw it i thiught i got hacked
August 13th, 2008 at 4:10 pm
kwel
August 13th, 2008 at 4:36 pm
thank you! any additions to stats is very welcome. i can never get enough of it
access to google analytics on our blogs would be super awesome!
August 13th, 2008 at 4:41 pm
It would be good to know stats about media (songs, videos) played in posts, too.
August 13th, 2008 at 4:44 pm
Superb.
Thanks a million.
More please…
August 13th, 2008 at 5:04 pm
thanks andy..
August 13th, 2008 at 5:16 pm
Does monkeybutt refer to “W”? Or is it just a code term used at the white house for the potus?
August 13th, 2008 at 5:22 pm
Thanks stats, good day
August 13th, 2008 at 5:26 pm
Good news.
August 13th, 2008 at 6:00 pm
Thanks for this! Now….please, even more details!
August 13th, 2008 at 6:07 pm
Thank you muchly!
August 13th, 2008 at 6:27 pm
Excellent news. Thanks!!
August 13th, 2008 at 6:44 pm
Nice name… monkey butt… brings back memories. It is good that improvements are continuosly being made. I await more future improvements.
August 13th, 2008 at 6:48 pm
I’m new to worpdress and didn’t know you could see charts for individual posts. How do I get there?
August 13th, 2008 at 6:49 pm
It’s great newsss, but how can i access to it? I just clik stats on my blog and the same chart (the old one appears)
Can you help me?
Thanks a lot
Gabriela
August 13th, 2008 at 6:54 pm
AWESOME!
August 13th, 2008 at 7:08 pm
Great Help from SEO Experts
August 13th, 2008 at 7:09 pm
The more stats, the better.
Thanks!
August 13th, 2008 at 7:11 pm
@ Gabriela and JMRot: You can access these new charts by clicking on the “stats” icon next to the appropriate referrer, search term, or number of clicks. (We just edited the post to clarify that.)
August 13th, 2008 at 7:27 pm
Oh, yeah! Don’t know what I’d do without those monkey butt searches!
I love it, the more info. the better. I’m not entirely sure I WANT to know when I’ve had zero hits, but OK…I’ll be brave. 
August 13th, 2008 at 7:32 pm
Having a black belt from Motorola in Statistics, I like any blogs on statistics.
August 13th, 2008 at 7:47 pm
really cool
August 13th, 2008 at 7:51 pm
Awesome updates.
August 13th, 2008 at 7:59 pm
Thank you & keep up the great job!
August 13th, 2008 at 8:11 pm
Thanks!
August 13th, 2008 at 8:21 pm
Brilliant! Thank you.
Karen.
August 13th, 2008 at 8:36 pm
would be nice if there was one click access to the stats page from any page in WP…if there is can someone share how/where? better yet would be a widget that showed an updated view of hits at all times
August 13th, 2008 at 8:38 pm
thanks
August 13th, 2008 at 9:04 pm
Cool. You guys are great! Thanks for the great work.
August 13th, 2008 at 9:05 pm
Thanks but I already need a 12-step program for stats addicts as it is : )
August 13th, 2008 at 9:08 pm
Good job. Take tomorrow off.
August 13th, 2008 at 9:22 pm
Matt or anyone from the WordPress team,
I have a site that is not a wordpress subdomain url. My backend has been recording what appears to be “Fake Traffic” sent by either AVG software or malware mimicking software. Does WordPress filter out this type of garbage?
August 13th, 2008 at 9:37 pm
nice. I can never get enough info on the popularity of monkey butts.
August 13th, 2008 at 9:51 pm
Coolio!
August 13th, 2008 at 9:56 pm
I’ve always be a chart freak so needless to say I think it’s great…………………Halbaby
August 13th, 2008 at 10:11 pm
We just started a new blog a while back about our jewelry biz… very helpful. Thanks! =)
August 13th, 2008 at 10:48 pm
Thats simply fantastic.
Super
August 13th, 2008 at 11:20 pm
Cool!
August 13th, 2008 at 11:36 pm
I love it, thanks! Now I can see how often my ramblings go unseen inbetween those few special visits!
August 13th, 2008 at 11:48 pm
Thanks you from Spain…
August 13th, 2008 at 11:48 pm
Thank’s for this
August 14th, 2008 at 12:38 am
Hmm, http://dashboard.wordpress.com/wp-admin/index.php?page=stats won’t load for me.
August 14th, 2008 at 12:51 am
Thank you…. very good support
August 14th, 2008 at 12:52 am
woo hoo, thanks.
August 14th, 2008 at 1:21 am
This is great news! Thanks!
August 14th, 2008 at 2:09 am
Ooohh, thank you, thank you thank you…
Great job guys!
August 14th, 2008 at 2:34 am
I loike…! TQVM
August 14th, 2008 at 2:46 am
do people really search for “monkey butt” that often?
August 14th, 2008 at 2:52 am
W00t!! thanks
August 14th, 2008 at 3:11 am
u rok
August 14th, 2008 at 3:16 am
dope.
August 14th, 2008 at 4:03 am
thats uber awesome .
August 14th, 2008 at 5:50 am
awesome .. great feature
August 14th, 2008 at 5:50 am
The auto statistics information is really a handy tool to guage the goabout of our posts and viewrship. It’s really amazing that the WordPress team is gearing up with all sorts of enhancing tools at our disposals. Thanks.
August 14th, 2008 at 5:53 am
I love stats. Keep ‘em coming.
August 14th, 2008 at 6:05 am
As all you do, this is good too. Thanks a lot.
August 14th, 2008 at 7:48 am
It’s great. Currently I can know how many ‘views’ my blog gets. Is it possible to know how many ‘visitors’ I got? I know may be it’s asking for ‘too much’:-) but, one day a visitor viewing my site 10 times and the next day 10 visitors viewing the site once each, return the same results.
August 14th, 2008 at 7:50 am
simply awesome!
August 14th, 2008 at 7:56 am
great
is it possible to show us more about visitors like browser, screen resolution,location … and clarify visitors and visits and we were able to show them in blog
it would be great if you put an IP resolver near the commenters IP address
thanks
August 14th, 2008 at 8:22 am
Just wanted to say you’ve got the best avatar!
August 14th, 2008 at 11:33 am
Cool!
August 14th, 2008 at 11:43 am
Now just fix the stats so we can view them in the time zone we actually in.
August 14th, 2008 at 11:44 am
See, if you were using Ruby it’d have been 1 line of code taking less than a minute to write ;P
August 14th, 2008 at 11:47 am
thats great
August 14th, 2008 at 1:55 pm
very nice. thanks as always for increasing functionality and a great product.
August 14th, 2008 at 2:10 pm
This is absolutely great news, thank you and good job!