Version 2.0 is a major improvement for the plugin. A Major improvement in the way that all code was re-written (or at least 99% of it).

• All charts are now using Google Vizualisation instead of OpenFlashChart. Why did I decide to do that kind of change ? Mainly because of compatibility issues and the “ajaxy” part of the chart that led to “undefined” data. – see these screenshots
• Better spam detection, using spamhaus.org (or any other provider as it’s an option). This will prevent the system to record known spammers as visitors.
• Blacklist of IPs is now much more human readable. btw, if you want to be sure it works, empty all textarea fields, then reactivate the plugin, it will reset to default values.
• Outgoing links ! Yes you’re not misunderstanding, it now records all outgoing links. Track where your readers are going while reading your blog.
• Geolocalization will now display Google maps with visible points for location visiting your blog.
• CSV Export of any page

This is probably not all improvements I made but as  I said, I’ve re-written everything and can’t really remember how it was before

Just to conclude, this is to me – and I’m trying to be as objective as possible – the BEST statistics tool you can find for WordPress.

By the way, If you like my work, don’t hesitate to donate

Just download it here

Changelog :

• Addition of an entry deletion directly from the hour summary view
• Addition of IP deletion. This will delete all visits from a specific IP adress.

Of course, the package is upto date on the Documentation page.

These two new function will allow you to delete spammer visits without overloading your filters, because most of the time spammers won’t come back using the same IP.

Here is a lsit of functions :

• Display a summary of visits (week, month, trimester, semester and year)
• Display Pageviews and visitors with daily precision
• Referring pages
• Used keywords
• Localization of your visitors
• Browser / OS

The statistics are collected and instantly processed, or not, as you can decide this using an option. You can also separate feeds from real pageviews, exclude some IPs from being collected (@home, @work, @school, etc…) and choose to collect robots pageviews or not.

You can download it here : ZdStats Package.

The documentation is here

All this means that I’ll be able to fetch useful statistics directly from my own wordpress installation, I’ll be able to decide the filters in place for Bots/spammers/etc… and will not rely on hidden filters functionalities. Moreover, this means that your filters in this plugin are options ! YOU can decide of what is filtered or not. The more people will share their options, the more reliable the system will become.

The system is built this way, Three options:

• First, a list of IPs excluded from collection (useful for home IP, @work IP, etc…)
• Second, a list of User Agents corresponding to Robots with a name association (example : Mediapartners-Google => Google Adsense)
• The Third is a list of IP adresses considered as spammer or robots with non site friendly UserAgents.

Once these options are set, the data collection is started and allows you to consult statistics

Of course, administration pages are excluded, so are 404 errors. This is a question I ask myself, should I include them with a specific code so that we can find broken links ?

For the moment, only three main functionalities are coded : Summary for a specific period (chosen from a dropdown) with visitors and pageviews. Daily detail hour by hour. And finally, indexation from Search Engines.

I’m giving myself two weeks before publication of the First version of the system, but be aware that it’s already working as it’s installed on this very blog.

Meanwhile, do not hesitate to leave comments here for queries and suggestions so that I can work on them and include them.

Thanks for your support

You can see on every page / blog post stats on page views. This is due to an API I made for myself allowing to display that information.

So, here are the stats:

Google Search leading here : 706

• Safari 28
• Ubuntu 29
• retouche 49
• wordpress 76
• photo 83

Page views: 2613

• February:441
• March:846
• April:1207 so far

Unique visitors: 1790

• February: 270
• March: 619
• April: 826 so far

Most viewed pages :

• Uncrypt free crypted wordpress themes
• Online photo editor review
• WordPress theme, Stars and Grass
• Stress test Tools – Webload 8.1
• High Availability

Browsers:

• Firefox 45,77%
• IE(All) 38,93%
• Safari 5,20%
• Opera 3,10%
• Others 6,99%

Operating systems:

• Windows 73,82%
• Linux 13,54%
• Mac 7,67%
• Others 4,97%