Two New Stats Things
Did you ever look at your stats chart and wonder which posts were published on a particular day? Now it’s easy to find out. Just move your mouse around the chart. (This only works for WordPress.com blogs right now.)
Did you ever wonder how many hits your home page gets? Now it’s listed along with your posts. There is also a comprehensive report page reachable by clicking the little icon on the right. (This works for WordPress.com blogs and self-hosted blogs using the Stats plug-in. No upgrade is required.)
I hope these little upgrades will help you prosper in the new year. 
Posted: Wednesday, January 6th, 2010 at 4:49 pm. Filed in Features, Stats, WordPress, WordPress.com.
Jan 6th at 4:53 pm
Yes, I did notice them! They have appeared in the order that you have mentioned them!
Jan 6th at 4:56 pm
Love, love, love these new stats features. THANK YOU!!!
Jan 6th at 4:56 pm
getting better!
i have to take a little time to find out about all the functions available. I feel i can do better but still dont know the tools
xxx
Jan 6th at 4:58 pm
Your information does help. I started seeing the “Home Page” stat and could not figure it out. Now you’ve figured it out for me.
Thanks.
Jan 6th at 5:01 pm
Saw them! Love these little surprises! Have a good year Andy!
Jan 6th at 5:03 pm
Nice little refinement on a good set-up – thanks!
Jan 6th at 5:06 pm
I love the first new feature but doesn’t the home page stats lump all the posts on the home page together (5 or 6 on my blog)? So those posts won’t register views unless a reader gets to them via some way other than landing on the home page? Or am I missing something?
Jan 6th at 5:22 pm
That’s right. We can’t determine which posts your home page visitors are reading if they don’t click through. One way to get visitors to click on your posts is to split the content so that it doesn’t appear in full on the home page. See the support pages on splitting content.
Jan 6th at 5:15 pm
I’ve only been using WordPress a few months and discovered these features recently, thinking they’d always been there. Very useful, thank you.
Jan 6th at 5:17 pm
Nice improvement, but what I’m really missing are stats for tags and categories. Stats for tags seem pretty important for P2-blogs in particular.
Jan 6th at 5:21 pm
I can feel the “prosperity” already. And I think I noticed the mouseover thing days ago. Thanks!
Jan 6th at 5:30 pm
Love Stats ~ These Rock ~ Thanks WordPress!
Jan 6th at 5:37 pm
Andy, this is most excellent! I love my stats. What readers like most and any correlation regarding time of day, day of week, as well as date all helps me shape what to write and and when to publish. I shall forward my blog to a publisher in due course and need to show relevant readership stats in support of my case for book publication. Regards, Richard.
Jan 6th at 5:38 pm
Oh, I thought something went wrong in my stats. But then, all the hits at my Blog really happens ;D
Jan 6th at 5:44 pm
Thanks for these two great changes… and also the tip on splitting pages to get people to click through for stats.
Jan 6th at 5:46 pm
I like it homepage stats. Its usefull. Thnaks
Jan 6th at 5:48 pm
Thank you for the upgrade, awesome.
Jan 6th at 5:48 pm
Thank you so much! What a difference! I always wondered how many hit the Home Page. Thanks
Jan 6th at 5:50 pm
Has the comprehensive report always been there?
Jan 6th at 5:53 pm
Personally I love the feature (thank you!). Did notice there’s a small band of malcontents over on one of the forums: http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/new-stats-feature-how-to-turn-off?
They’ll get used to it!
Jan 6th at 6:19 pm
Thanks for the heads-up. I fixed the issue with long titles and posted a reply to that thread.
Jan 6th at 6:00 pm
I’m a big fan of homepage stats already. Thanks WP!
Jan 6th at 6:08 pm
Very nice! Now I can be even MORE obsessed with my stats!
Jan 6th at 6:08 pm
great add on!
now i am only waiting for two more things:
1: how many visitors created the views
2: which country did they come from
the year just started ;o)
keep going on working on with the best bog site!
Jan 6th at 6:10 pm
Question though – does the home page stat include all the pages? Like Url/page 1, Url/page 2 etc?
Jan 6th at 6:23 pm
Yes, visitors viewing any subsequent page of the home page will be counted as viewing the home page.
Jan 6th at 6:12 pm
Thank you. This rocks!
Jan 6th at 6:14 pm
Un plus effectivement pour la page d’accueil ! et les rapports complets, qui nous permettent de cibler les sujets qu’affectionnent plus particulièrement nos visiteurs
Jan 6th at 6:15 pm
Nice. Always wanted the home page stats to be listed.
Guess now you can see if your latest post has resulted in that huge traffic spike
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Jan 6th at 6:18 pm
The stats upgrade has weird reaction with the Top Post widget. Please see this: http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/new-stat-section-home-page?replies=40#post-418276
As far as my blog is concerned, the number one posted item in my Top Post widget is out of synch with others.
Jan 6th at 6:19 pm
The stat service is great and these features makes it even better – thanks!
Jan 6th at 6:27 pm
I had the long title problem too but it’s fixed now. I really like these changes – thanks!
Jan 6th at 6:32 pm
Love the new features!
Jan 6th at 6:33 pm
I noticed these upgrades, and I love them.
Jan 6th at 6:34 pm
Nice! Love. Love. Love! Great gift for the new year from my WordPress!! Thank you so much!!
Jan 6th at 6:34 pm
thx a lot wordpress, the homepage one makes a lot of difference for stats addicts.
Jan 6th at 6:35 pm
Love the stat upgrades! The work put in is very much appreciated.
Jan 6th at 6:39 pm
Yep! noticed most of these already but was really wondering about the homepage thing. Thx for clearing it up.:)
Jan 6th at 6:40 pm
Great thanks
Jan 6th at 6:40 pm
Finally Mystery solved for inaccurate stats!
I love the latest feature stats related to homepage. Thanks wordpress!!!
Jan 6th at 6:40 pm
These features are awesome! Thanks so much.
Jan 6th at 6:52 pm
Good Useful features.
Jan 6th at 6:53 pm
Yes! They’re great additions. I always knew I was bad at math, but the way the stats used to be done made me consider remedial addition courses with a bunch of third graders. At least now I know I’m not as dumb as I thought I was…..or am I?
Thank you!
Jan 6th at 7:02 pm
I was wondering about the Home Page when it just showed up on the stats yesterday! Thanks.
Jan 6th at 7:05 pm
hey I noticed this and thought that these 2 features were cool. Helps in tracking blog posts and their reception better
great going. hope to see more features in the future.
Jan 6th at 7:05 pm
The “Home Page” thing really confused me at first, but I am glad it’s there. I had noticed previously that the numbers of views weren’t adding up right with the pages listed, and now I know why: home page views weren’t getting counted.
Thanks much for the change.
Jan 6th at 7:23 pm
Hey, thanks for both of these! I noticed also and figured it out…like others the home page was confusing at first. Now I can’t imagine not knowing this info!
Jan 6th at 7:28 pm
Yes I noticed the changes and yes I appreciate the added information. One additional item on my wishlist is to be able to distinguish unique readers as opposed to just number of reads. I guess some kind of script to filter IP addresses would be needed for that.
Jan 6th at 7:36 pm
wonderful
Jan 6th at 7:39 pm
I noticed these about a week ago. I think they’re fantastic. Thanks!
Jan 6th at 7:40 pm
Thanks for more stats!! Can’t get enough. Happy New Year, guys and gals.
Jan 6th at 7:50 pm
Nice feature,thanks
Jan 6th at 7:51 pm
thanks wordpress..
Jan 6th at 8:04 pm
Keep the stats coming! They’re so informative and addictive. The more stat features you guys can add, the better!
Keep up the great work!
Jan 6th at 8:08 pm
Great, thanks!
Is there any way (or any plans) to be able to see a Map Overlay/Geographic stats on where people are visiting from? Google Analytics functionality in this is superb, I’d love to see something to that effect.
Thanks…
Jan 6th at 8:17 pm
Guys, you are the best!
Jan 6th at 8:24 pm
good stats rule
Jan 6th at 8:33 pm
@keithmansfield
“Personally I love the feature (thank you!). Did notice there’s a small band of malcontents over on one of the forums: http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/new-stats-feature-how-to-turn-off?
They’ll get used to it!”
Actually, that’s a small group of people, of whom I’m one, expressing perfectly valid opinions. It’s called free speech – you may have heard of it.
Jan 6th at 8:35 pm
I think that both of them are fantastic!!! In particular the one of the “homepage”… :-p
Jan 6th at 8:39 pm
Awesome stuff. I always wanted the Homepage stats.
Jan 6th at 8:42 pm
There is a long-standing problem with the stats graph: hits drop way off on the last day, because the last day’s not over yet. Why not omit that last, misleading data point?
Jan 6th at 8:43 pm
I did notice them, and are very useful, thanks.
Jan 6th at 8:45 pm
The “Home Page” display count is nice
Jan 6th at 8:48 pm
I did notice them … Thank you very much!
Latina
Jan 6th at 8:49 pm
Noticed them …………..and love them. Thank you.
You are making stats far too interesting!
Jan 6th at 8:52 pm
Very nice and handy, thank you for these.
Jan 6th at 8:55 pm
Thanks for the upgrades to the stats, when I saw Home Page show up yesterday I started to inquire on the forums, but I figured an announcement was coming soon. FYI – The 1st screen shot doesn’t show up for me. I’m using Chrome.
Jan 6th at 9:01 pm
Thanks it’s a great improvement. Keep up the good work.
Jan 6th at 9:06 pm
Ok, I refreshed the page and I can see it now. Thanks.
Jan 6th at 9:07 pm
Yes, I have noted and appreciated this change. Thanks.
Jan 6th at 9:21 pm
Loving wordpress
I wanna have little wordpress babieees !!
Jan 6th at 9:39 pm
Great stats. I’m a metric junky, so thanks.
Jan 6th at 9:41 pm
Thanks Guys! That’s very usefull.
Jan 6th at 9:49 pm
Changes noted. Thank you.
Jan 6th at 9:57 pm
Thanks WP Team. Much appreciated.
The Home Page hit count especially.
Cheers
Jan 6th at 10:13 pm
Kudos to WP. Love the Stat upgrades!
Jan 6th at 10:15 pm
Very nice indeed !
What would be even better (and it’s something I’ve waited for a long time) is an ability to add stats info to individual blog posts via shortcodes.
Jan 6th at 10:21 pm
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Jan 6th at 10:27 pm
I noticed what I think is a bug with the posts on the chart. If the post is published automatically (scheduled posts) they don’t show up in the chart tooltip. Otherwise, I’m loving the enhancements. Thank you!!
Jan 6th at 10:31 pm
That’s great information – especially knowing how many users visit my home page. Thanks!
Jan 6th at 10:47 pm
Noticed that yesterday. Way cool. Thank you!
Jan 6th at 10:51 pm
That’s really good about the homepage stat, because I always wondered about it. Thank you.
Jan 6th at 11:04 pm
Fine, but what’s a home page? I have a very simple blog — http://luysii.wordpress.com/ which is just a series of posts, starting with the most recent. When I open the blog I go to the top one. I know you’re not supposed to ask questions here, but the forum on the Home Page had stuff which assumed you know what a Home Page actually is. Isn’t there something like a glossary for the various parts of WordPress. Sabin-Wilson’s book (which is pretty good) didn’t even have it in the index. So here goes (with appologies for asking in this space).
Today’s stats look like this
Home page 8
Linear Algebra survival guide for Quantu 6
Linear Algebra survival guide for Quantu 6
Idiocy has consequences — the risks of 1
Time for the glass eye test to be insert 1
What Hath Mathematica Wrought ? 1
How many proteins can be made using the 1
How many distinct RNA polymers can be ma 1
Why premeds should be required to take ( 1
Why Organic Chemistry should always be t
How do people get to the various posts without going to the site first?
Where IS my home page?
Apologies (again) for asking
http://luysii.wordpress.com/
Jan 6th at 11:10 pm
i love getting homepage results now. but… if only we could get to see the number of “visitors” (along with page impressions)….
Jan 6th at 11:35 pm
These stats are very helpful.
Jan 6th at 11:42 pm
I did notice the post thing, but I didn’t notic the pages hits!
I liked it all. thanks a lot very helpful
Jan 7th at 12:03 am
I love the Homepage thing!
Jan 7th at 12:08 am
ahh, yes, to check my popularity….hmmm, still in the single digits. Still I love these features. Thanks!
Cheers and here’s to more great little things on WordPress! Sweetman
Jan 7th at 12:15 am
Very nice upgrade indeed. Thanks for working so hard for us.
Jan 7th at 12:39 am
yes! i love it
it is very useful
Jan 7th at 12:53 am
Does anyone else notice a difference between the use of this plugin on a wordpress.com blog and on a self-hosted blog? When I had my wordpress.com blog for years, I noticed the wordpress stats were always 40% or more higher than the statcounter image counter stats I also had on my blog. Now that I’ve migrated my blog utilizing wordpress.org software to my own host, I notice almost the opposite. The wordpress stats plugin is 30% lower than my statcounter stats. Has anyone else encountered this? Is there a reason why that could be?
Jan 7th at 1:09 am
I love the stats upgrade! WordPress Rocks!!
Jan 7th at 1:14 am
a simple thank you.
i always wanted to know the hits on the home page.
-it’s where all the magic starts on a blog….
and it’s now come true…
Cris.
Jan 7th at 1:26 am
Thanks so much for these!
Jan 7th at 1:36 am
Is this new and useful feature in any way responsible for “Top Posts” to list incorrectly?
Jan 7th at 2:02 am
Home page hits – brilliant! Also for the continuous improvements to stats overall – every improvement is worth gold
Jan 7th at 2:09 am
Great feature works like a charm! Keep up the good work folks!
Jan 7th at 3:37 am
I love the new stat features. Please keep them coming! The more the merrier;)
Jan 7th at 3:50 am
I’m so glad you keep on improving everything. I really like what you’ve done with the stats as it brings more meaning to what is being searched for. The home page stats are really nice. Thank you.
Jan 7th at 3:51 am
I spotted this…I thought it was fantastic!
Jan 7th at 3:53 am
Very good. I was wondering why there is home page stat until I saw this. The post title in the stats works very well to me as well. Keep up the great work wordpress.com!
Jan 7th at 4:11 am
I love it!!! But what feature to tell me which post is getting most viewers in my blog?