On my poetry blog Wanderer Thoughts I have some unusual issues with the Google Analyticator Plugin for WordPress where it shows my GA statistics on my dashboard but some of my top 5 content pages show (not set). Yet, when I visit Google Analytics itself it shows the actual top 5 content just fine, it doesn’t have the “not set” issue. Though if if I hover over the not set link it shows me which post it refers to, it often is the same URL as the top 5 link just under it. Example below the first “Not Set” with 222 views links to my /top-5-poems page, but that is also listed as number 3 with 149 views, so not sure why it is showing up like this.
My poetry blog is the only blog that I see the “Not Set” issues, it doesn’t occur in any other of my 8 blogs that use the Google Analyticator Plugin for WordPress, which is a great plugin as it not only inserts your GA on all your pages and posts, but also creates a quick dashboard entry that reduces the number of times you have to go to Google Analytics homepage if you just want quick stats. The only disadvantage is you only see your stats from the previous day as GA doesn’t record visits in real time.
If you want real time visits on your dashboard, I recommend you use Counterize-II or WordPress.com Stats on your WordPress Dashboard, but these create new SQL Database tables and require additional writes to your SQL database for each visit which can affect blog performance. These SQL writes do not cache and WP-Super-Cache will not prevent these SQL writes from occuring (they wouldn’t reflect visits if it wasn’t writing them).
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November 23rd, 2009 at 7:42 am
Wow, what a plethora of information contained within this post! I didn’t know that about wp-stats. I have that plugin installed. Remember the other day when Jan stumbled Holly’s post and her site went down? I wonder if one of these plugins contributed to that.
In re: the other one not working, is it possible that a plugin is conflicting with it? There’s always something, eh?
Heather Kephart´s last blog ..Monday Mischief
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November 23rd, 2009 at 9:27 am
Yes, some of them contribute to overhead because they have to write to the databases, this is why I no longer use wp-stats, wordpress.com stats or counterize II, I only use the Analyticator plugin now, since it doesn’t write to your database just reads the info from Google Analytics. It also doesn’t give real time tracking though.
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November 23rd, 2009 at 1:00 pm
Thank you for making me aware of this issue. I will see if there is anything I can do to fix the issue in the next release.
Ronald Heft´s last blog ..WordCamp New York 2009
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November 23rd, 2009 at 2:32 pm
No problem, I thought it may have been just the way some of my stuff was keyword tagged or something, didn’t know if it really was with the plug-in itself.
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November 24th, 2009 at 10:00 am
i have never used a plugin to check stats from wp-admin panel, i always check traffic stats from the google analytics dashboard.
however, will try the one you recommend and see how it works, thanks,
Uttoran Sen´s last blog ..Utilize Two OS in a Single PC – Windows 7 with Vista or XP
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November 29th, 2009 at 3:53 pm
You need StatpressCN plugin if you want real-time stats about your blog,extra tables in your DB but the detailed info you get back makes it worth it.
And if you have concerns about overhead; use GD Press!
Topmaker´s last blog ..WordPress Meets Marketing:Opt-In Form Plugins
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