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For better blogging you need to know something about your visitors, who’s visiting, why they’re at your blog, where they came from, and where they’re going. In this list you’ll find 17 Useful WordPress Plugins for Statistics.

These plugins will help you to analyse your WordPress blog, feed, search statistics. When you know what your readers are interested in you can easily increase your blog popularity, subscribers count and traffic.

1. Google Analyticator

Compatible up to: 2.8.3

Google Analyticator adds the necessary JavaScript code to enable Google Analytics logging on any WordPress blog. This eliminates the need to edit your template code to begin logging. Google Analyticator also includes several widgets for displaying Analytics data in the admin and on your blog.

If you’re interested in Google WordPress Plugins please check our previous post: 10 Most Useful Google Plugins for WordPress

2. WP-Stats-Dashboard

Compatible up to: 2.8.5

Displays the WordPress.com stats graph directly in your Dashboard. No more tiresomely opening the Blog Stats tab and manually logging in.

3. Search Meter

Compatible up to: 2.8.4

If you have a Search box on your blog, Search Meter automatically records what people are searching for and whether they are finding what they are looking for. Search Meter’s admin interface shows you what people have been searching for in the last couple of days, and in the last week or month.

4. StatPress Reloaded

Compatible up to: 2.7.1

This plugin shows you real time statistics about your blog. It collects information about visitors, spiders, search keywords, feeds, browsers, OS etc.

5. Statpress SEOlution

Compatible up to: 2.8.5

A fork of Statpress Reloaded with some more improvements like: better graphics (flash charts), more and detailed information about spider/robots.

6. Analytics360

Compatible up to: 2.8.4

MailChimp’s Analytics360 plugin allows you to pull Google Analytics and MailChimp data directly into your dashboard, so you can access robust analytics tools without leaving WordPress.

7. Download AutoStats

Compatible up to: 2.7

With this plugin, you just have to upload your files by FTP to start collecting your download stats. The uploaded files are added to the stats database the first time they are requested. You can change this and only be added to database if the first request is made by the administrator, or not added in anyway.

8. Post and Comment Growth

Compatible up to: 2.7

This plug-in is a reporting tools for site administrators in WordPress MU. It generates a histogram graph of posts and comments population in the system. Google Data Visualization API tool is used here to generate the graph.

9. Blog Stats by W3Counter

Compatible up to: 2.7.1

Integrates W3Counter’s free web stats service into your WordPress blog. This plugin adds a Blog Stats Dashboard to your admin area with real-time usage statistics for your blog. These include the number of visitors and page views you’ve received over the past 7 days and all time, top viewed posts, top referrers, top searches and top visitor locations.

10. WordPress Wassup Plugin

Compatible up to: 2.8.3

WassUp is a WordPress plugin to track your visitors in real time. It has a very readable and fancy admin console to keep tracks of your blog’s users visits.

It has a “current visitors online” view and a more detailed “visitors details” view where you can know almost everything your users are doing on your blog, it’s very useful for SEO or statistics maniacs. It comes with a “Spy” view in Ajax like the Digg Spy.

11. nStatistics

Compatible up to: 2.8.4

Get Statistics for your blog, see last 15 days (visits/page views), Quick today Stats, Traffic sources, Accessed Pages and Traffic Sources. Every category can hold information for today, yesterday, last 7 days, this month, last month and since plugin is installed.

12. Blog Metrics

Compatible up to: 2.7

This plugin calculates the following: average number of posts per month, average number of words per post, average number of comments per post without your own comments, average number of trackbacks per post, average number of words used in comments to posts and it calculates the same data for the last month, and for each author too. Includes a widget for your sidebar.

13. WordPress Download Monitor

Compatible up to: 2.8.4

Download Monitor is a plugin for uploading and managing downloads, tracking download hits, and displaying links.

14. Woopra Analytics Plugin

Compatible up to: 2.8.4

Woopra is the world’s most comprehensive, information rich, easy to use, real-time Web tracking and analysis application.

15.  Feed Stats for WordPress

Compatible up to: 2.8.2

Feed Stats for WordPress is a plugin that allows you to view your FeedBurner feed stats from inside of the WordPress admin interface.
Stats for your feed can be viewed from the “Feed Stats” page in the “Dashboard” section of WordPress.

16. FeedStats

Compatible up to: 2.8

Simple statistic tool for feeds.

17. TweetMeme Button

Compatible up to: 2.8.4

The TweetMeme retweet button easily allows your blog to be retweeted. The button also provides a current count of how many times your story has been retweeted throughout twitter. This plugin allows you to see TweetMeme Analytics in WordPress.

What WordPress Statistics Plugins are you using?  If you know any other WordPress Statistics Plugins please inform me in comments.

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