10 Most Popular WordPress Analytics Plugins Review

WordPress Plugin

Features

Rating

• Collects pageviews information.
• Most popular posts and pages.
• Traffic sources.
• Opt-out sources.
• Link to your dashboard which allows you to see all your stats on a single page.
• Small chart will in your admin bar if you are running WordPress 3.1 or later.
• Processing and collection runs on their servers and not yours, hence no additional load on your hosting account.
• Stats reports reflect new visits typically within ten seconds.

• Supports standard Google Analytics tracking via the latest async tracking methods.
• Includes an admin dashboard widget that displays a graph of the last 30 days of visitors, a summary of site usage, the top pages, the top referrers, and the top searches.
• Includes a widget that can be used to display visitor stat information on the front-end.
• Supports outbound link tracking of all links on the page, including links not managed by WordPress.
• Supports download link tracking.
• Supports event tracking with outbound links / downloads instead of the old pageview tracking method.
• Support site speed tracking.
• Allows hiding of Administrator visits without affecting Google Analytics’ site overlay feature.
• Supports any advanced tracking code Google provides.
• Installs easily.
• Provides complete control over options.
• Supports localization – get the settings page in your language of choice.

• Shows Keyword density statistics about the usage of single keywords and keyphrases.
• Extracts keywords the text and uses them as meta keywords that automatically generates information for bots or search engines.
• Predecessors and successors that will be added to all page titles and descriptions served by your blog.
• Page-specific control of robots META.
• Generation of Canonical URLs – also for all kinds of content aggregation (lists with last posts, archive, tag, category, search results and author including pagination).
• Controls the index/follow settings of the content aggregations (full control of robots for the specific aggregations).
• Configuration of ODP, Yahoo! Directory and ARCHIVE (archiving of the content for search engines like google but also at archive.org) META.
• Prevents urls resulting in a not found response (404) from indexation.
• All meta tags generated by the plugin can be switched off separately to prevent collisions with other plugins.
• Using nonces for plugins security.
• Allow or deny indexation of the blogs feeds.

• Adds the required javascript for google analytics.
• Adds Google Analytics Tracking Code to all pages in our WordPress based Websites/Blogs.
• Adds an option to tag all outgoing links, so it’s easy see whether a click came from a comment or an article, which also helps in tracking Downloads, AdSense Clicks, Image Search keywords, Searches for Yahoo!’s Search Assistant etc.

• Comprehensive Visitor Statistics and Analytics.
• Page Rank History.
• Popular Pages.
• Entry and Exit Pages.
• Keyword research, tracking and history.
• Search Engine Referrals.
• Heat Maps (shows the popular items clicked on your web page).

• Adds the piwik javascript code into every page of your log, so you don’t have to code PHP to add it to your templates.
• Supports: piwik hostname, piwik path, site ID, option to control download tracking and option to exclude the admin user.

• Visualize your site’s traffic trends and see how blog posts and email campaigns affect overall traffic. You can also isolate traffic coming directly to your site from email campaigns with the “campaign traffic” tab.
• Chart the growth of your mailing list over time. Compare new and existing subscribers. And if you’ve got multiple lists, see how they stack up to each other.
• Curious how all that new traffic ended up on your site? Wondering if more people are finding you through search or direct referrals? We’ll break it all down for you with Google Analytics.

• Track how is your content shared on Twitter, Facebook, Google +1, StumbleUpon, Digg and LinkedIn.
• Find out exactly how many times your posts/pages have been shared across these social networks.
• Performance of all blog posts and pages is displayed in tabular format.
• Browse to find out which posts have gone viral and been popularised over the social media.
• Use the information to find out which social media websites should you promote your content the most.
• Access Social Metrics from WordPress Admin bar.
• Easily filter the displayed output by categories and by month.
• Quickly switch between posts and pages.
• Choose how many posts you wish to see at a time.
• Seamlessly share posts/pages over the social networks from right within the Social Metrics Dashboard.
• Lightweight plugin with minimal settings.

• Sitemap Submission Option to Google, Bing, Yahoo and Ask.com.
• Manual HTML Header / Footer section.
• Google Updates the Asynchronous Tracking snippet to the latest version provided by Google.
• Warning/Success/Failure messages on sitemap submission.

• Embeds google analytics code in you wordpress.
• Includes almost all of Google Analytics features in WordPress dashboard.