by Matt
New Historical Post Stats
We’ve added some new features to the stats system. When you got to your blogs stats on your dashboard you’ll notice next to each of the top posts for a given day there is a “stats” link. (We’re going to have a nifty icon for this.)
If you click on that, it will take you to the historical stats for that given post. You can see how the popularity of a post evolved over time. Most posts probably start out with lots of hits and then go down, but some may spike if you get a link from something like Digg. It will also tell you how many views total that post has gotten.
We’ve also brought back the total posts, comments, tags, and Akismet stats as the fourth box on the stats page, so you can now see these stats all in one place again.
Update: We now have a cool stats icon — 
— care of Bryan.
November 4th, 2006 at 8:08 am
Pretty cool. I sent you some feedback about some issues I saw.
How much of a database hit is this? If it isn’t too bad, it would be really nice to see the totals on the Manage Posts pages.
Thanks Matt.
November 4th, 2006 at 8:26 am
That is an excellent addition. I was surprised when I went to my stats page to see the change, but I love seeing the trends for particular posts. Thanks for feeding my stats addiction.
November 4th, 2006 at 8:35 am
This is a really good news as I missed the old Stats… When I got to my page today I noticed the change and had my time checking on the spesific posts :-)… Great amendment!
November 4th, 2006 at 8:36 am
I like it. I have noticed lately that some of my posts have been viewed a long time after they were posted and it’s nice to see the stats of them.
Great job, guys.
November 4th, 2006 at 8:39 am
First to say THANKS
November 4th, 2006 at 8:40 am
Wow this is absolutely fantastic. As a lot of my pieces are information based they do not really get dated and this is exactly what I wanted. Stats on each piece. Can’t thank you guys enough.
November 4th, 2006 at 8:40 am
Wow!
November 4th, 2006 at 8:55 am
The Blog Stats page is awesome now. I noticed that the total hits for posts with long titles are not visible, the post title also comes to an abrupt end.
November 4th, 2006 at 8:59 am
It`s great! WP goes to a leading scientific blog ;-).
November 4th, 2006 at 9:09 am
Nice, I quite like that.
At the moment it appears that I can only access the stats of a post if it’s in the Top Posts list, but is it going extend to all posts written?
Here’s a feature I’d like, but I haven’t got a clue how workable it is though, and that is to be able to see which pages people are viewing as opposed to which posts. At the moment I haven’t a clue if they visit a page unless they leave a comment.
November 4th, 2006 at 9:14 am
Thank you, Matt, for giving us back an even better statistics dashboard. What would be now of real value is a “Personal Top 10 List of Posts”. I (and the others) would like to know which of the own posts where best in the own ecosystem.
[But then it's enuff statistics ;)]
November 4th, 2006 at 9:31 am
brilliant feature. nice to see the rise and fall of posts.
but the new dashboard is not that great. i like the old boxes.
November 4th, 2006 at 9:49 am
I’ve seen it. Thats a great feature! Thx!
November 4th, 2006 at 9:50 am
*checks out* Ooooo - this is groovy! Much appreciated work on setting this up, Matt!
November 4th, 2006 at 9:51 am
wooooooooooooooow
November 4th, 2006 at 10:02 am
Outstanding! Been wanting something like this forever…well, ever since Vivian suggested it!
November 4th, 2006 at 10:24 am
Thanks Matt….. Good work! Prefer this to the new dashboard, our stats page needed an upgrade anyway.
November 4th, 2006 at 10:36 am
Yup, just logged in and checked it out. Looks pretty cool
November 4th, 2006 at 10:47 am
cool!
November 4th, 2006 at 10:58 am
Wow! That’s pretty darn cool!
I’ve only been on WordPress for about 4 months and I’m stunned how a great system just seems to get better and better.
Do you guys ever actually sleep?
November 4th, 2006 at 11:03 am
useful!
it wold be better if there were a list of ALL posts with the relative sub-stat…but it’s a very good beginning, thank you!
still waiting for out/inbound links stats!
November 4th, 2006 at 11:06 am
That’s awesome! I wish my stats looked even vaguely like that
November 4th, 2006 at 11:12 am
Very cool. Now I’ll have to dig back through my old posts to see how they’ve done. Thank you!
November 4th, 2006 at 11:23 am
I love it! Kudos to the WP team.
Thanks for providing ‘Totals’ in stats. I thought I missed them in my dashboard.
November 4th, 2006 at 11:24 am
This is great!
November 4th, 2006 at 11:45 am
Nice, good feature!!
November 4th, 2006 at 11:57 am
this is really good, much much better than the stats summary in the old dashboard - that said i still don’t prefer the new dashboard. but the blog stats is excellent now. if only we can know stats for page views next…
November 4th, 2006 at 12:00 pm
perfect!
November 4th, 2006 at 12:00 pm
love the new features.
can you please add a ‘today’s visits’ to the static box on the bottom ? sometimes i use linux on ppc and the flash animations don’t work.
i can see where people came from, total of visits and all of the information but not the number of visitors for the day.
it’s seems that this information is only available in the flash thing at the top.
apart from that, it’s very cool.
November 4th, 2006 at 12:06 pm
Great!
It will be lovely to take an “All time most viewed posts” just to know which is you star post
On the stats page, I think it would be a good idea a way to quickly view how many visits cma from a websearch engine, how many from a reference, and how many directly.
Congratulations, really great tool WordPress
November 4th, 2006 at 12:07 pm
nice
November 4th, 2006 at 12:18 pm
Great work (this probably sounds repetitive
)
One thing that I am hoping to see at some point is those referrals from less known search engines and image searches out of the referrals list.
November 4th, 2006 at 12:18 pm
Awesome feature!!!
Shot!!
November 4th, 2006 at 12:23 pm
Nice and useful improvements, thanks
November 4th, 2006 at 12:26 pm
The changes are very nice. I like graphs, so the stats feature is great.
November 4th, 2006 at 12:28 pm
This is just so cool.
November 4th, 2006 at 12:35 pm
Awesome. Thanks.
November 4th, 2006 at 12:51 pm
Good work again, guys!
November 4th, 2006 at 12:57 pm
Now I’m happy.
November 4th, 2006 at 1:30 pm
Lovely.
November 4th, 2006 at 1:44 pm
Pretty nify - I do like the way WordPress is developing all this kind of information - great for dummies like me.
November 4th, 2006 at 2:09 pm
Really cool! Thanks.
November 4th, 2006 at 2:11 pm
This is too cool, thanks. btw dont shame us with your own stats
November 4th, 2006 at 2:17 pm
Love this. This helps me to see what topics are most interesting over time to my readers… THANK YOU!
November 4th, 2006 at 2:27 pm
Nice.the stats feature is great.
And Thanks
November 4th, 2006 at 2:28 pm
This is great information to have. Thanks!
November 4th, 2006 at 2:35 pm
Cool, good work.
November 4th, 2006 at 2:56 pm
Y’all never cease to come up with ways of keeping the dashboard side of the blog fresh and innovative. Yet another reason to blog with Word Press!
Thanks for the great work and keep it up!
November 4th, 2006 at 3:06 pm
I love the update. Thanks!!!!
November 4th, 2006 at 3:13 pm
excellent!! you guys make wp really really easy and nice to use.
November 4th, 2006 at 3:30 pm
Great addition. I think it would be even cooler if you could add, on the page showing how many views for the selected post, how many total views that post has received.
November 4th, 2006 at 3:38 pm
I love stats!
November 4th, 2006 at 3:58 pm
Groovy, all the more reason I am glad I switched over to WordPress a couple months back.
November 4th, 2006 at 4:05 pm
Very cool. Many thanks.
November 4th, 2006 at 4:07 pm
Cooool!!! This rocks! I had been requesting this for quite some time. And can we have this in a consolidated tabular format too…?
November 4th, 2006 at 4:33 pm
Hey… thats pretty cool! Thanks guys!
November 4th, 2006 at 5:20 pm
Great. Thanks.
It would be nice to have sort of classification, starting from the most read topic down. So we know what type of topics people likes the most.
November 4th, 2006 at 5:26 pm
This is a nice feature. It is always nice to see the numbers and how your blog is doing
November 4th, 2006 at 5:26 pm
Cool! I like it.
November 4th, 2006 at 6:34 pm
Three cheers for Andy and company. I’m truly impressed by the stats improvements. I can almost envision a day when I may give my other meters the boot.
November 4th, 2006 at 6:48 pm
This is nice.
November 4th, 2006 at 7:52 pm
perhaps a total hits per post will be much more useful then monitoring the hits of a post over a period.
just two cents worth of opinion…
cheers!
November 4th, 2006 at 7:56 pm
Nice addon.. thanks!
can we have the #hits, #post, #comments on a widget? that would be cool..
November 4th, 2006 at 8:09 pm
Knowing the popularity of my blog, I think I’d rather know why anyone bothers reading it rather than how few do!!!
However, nice work… 
November 4th, 2006 at 8:13 pm
What a great new feature. And such a nice surprise when I came to WP today.
Mama Kelly
November 4th, 2006 at 9:47 pm
This is good, but I think you guys are still missing the boat…
Looking at the number of hits on a given post over a given period of time is all well and good, but it leaves me unsatisfied. To the point where I am considering migrating to another service.
Here’s why: If I want to understand why a given post attracts, for example, a spike in hits, the tracking analytics on WordPress do not give me the ability to do so. With WordPress, I can’t see how a person may have linked to one of my posts. I can’t see how what I posted was taken up and commented on by others. And if I can’t do that, then I ‘m not really part of the blogosphere as it’s commonly understood.
If you don’t want to let people use javascript (and I can understand your issues here) then you should at least provide decent tracking analytics. Your continued failure to do so has me looking for another blog service.
November 4th, 2006 at 9:48 pm
Rohan, your post really doesn’t make sense. You can see spikes in referrals to tell you exactly where traffic is coming from, not to mention incoming links. If you want something more advanced, there are plenty of image-only stat counters you can use, including Sitemeter.
November 4th, 2006 at 10:31 pm
Great job guys. really well done
November 5th, 2006 at 1:18 am
Exquisite! Thanks
November 5th, 2006 at 1:31 am
‘Thanks a lot bringing back the stats. How nice it would have been if you could display all the five (or 6, including Akismet protection)stat items right on the top (preferably on blue horizontal strip itself, or just below it in horizontal line, separated by commas)to view them at a glance alonside the graph. These stats are the most important aspect of a blog for any blogger, you will agree. This will also release some of the space on the page. Thanks in anticipation.
November 5th, 2006 at 1:41 am
Nice one - and very useful. Don’t like the dashboard, but I do like the stats.
November 5th, 2006 at 1:53 am
I really like the layout and it makes it really convenient to look at it all on one page. Great job guys on constantly improving the use of tools on here!
November 5th, 2006 at 2:39 am
Good stuff!
But this is also time to make some requests. First one is what many have asked: stats for every post. Second is a All-time Top Posts side-bar widget. Will wait…
November 5th, 2006 at 2:54 am
Great Job again matt
November 5th, 2006 at 3:23 am
again, congratulations!
job well done!
November 5th, 2006 at 3:27 am
Ooooohhh!!! I love this new stats page, I’m a sucker for numbers. I think this’ll be my favourite feature of WordPress!
Great job guys! Another reason for me to love WordPress all the more!
November 5th, 2006 at 3:39 am
Superb fun. Until now I didn’t really bother with stats, but I can now see why they are addictive! Seriously, though, I am amazed; you seem to be working very hard behind the scenes to take us by surprise like this all the time. You are appreciated.
November 5th, 2006 at 4:15 am
Just great! I’m stats addicted too. Thanks, guys.
November 5th, 2006 at 4:55 am
Thanks. This is a great addition to the stats page, and one that I have been wishing for for a long time. I just wish that I could see the totals for posts with longer titles–as it is presently the title cuts off and it doesn’t show the totals.
I also wish that I could see this information in summary form–just like you have a page that summarizes the top posts for the last 7 days and one that summarizes the top posts for the last 30 days. I wish that you could add a similar page that shows the top posts for all time, with the totals for each post.
November 5th, 2006 at 5:29 am
Fantastic. I like the simplicity of it. Just been playing around with the stats page and it’s nice to see the breakdown of each post. Once again good work you WordPress boffins you.
November 5th, 2006 at 5:39 am
this is one of the coolest feature ever! Now people know what to write what not to write ha ha
November 5th, 2006 at 5:40 am
quick suggestion - if you could bring the - see stats links neat edit this for each post - it would be really really neat!!
November 5th, 2006 at 6:15 am
Not a bad one … tnx
November 5th, 2006 at 7:02 am
i think it would be better if the tracking of hits will be per year.. not just for months.. too ambitious he?.. jowk..
great addition..
November 5th, 2006 at 10:21 am
This is a cool one, i quite like it. Although i still prefer the old dashboard…
November 5th, 2006 at 10:30 am
Great, two thumbs up… Anything after the dash thing has to be good.
Nice addition. I like the fact that you can see the total hits for a specific post - something I have been wondering on more popular posts that I have done. Thanks
November 5th, 2006 at 11:01 am
[...] A funny note, while i was writing down this post (also for my italian site) i saw that WordPress staff has written down an official annoucement of this feature, so if you want to read it just point your browsers here. [...]
November 5th, 2006 at 12:26 pm
I say just implement a customized version of Mint, and *everyone* would be happy
November 5th, 2006 at 2:18 pm
This is one thing I have been waiting to see improvements on and well… you guys are just outdoing yourselves. Congrats again.
November 5th, 2006 at 4:06 pm
Very useful and cool, thanks
November 5th, 2006 at 4:13 pm
a good change after dashboard
goody power state
thank matty matt !!
November 5th, 2006 at 4:26 pm
[...] This new metric of seeing the stats for each post is kind of cool, though I’m sure the graph would be easier to read if you consistently had the same number of posts. Mine looks like a yo-yo on cheap drugs. Up-down-up-down-up-down. Still cool nevertheless. [...]
November 5th, 2006 at 4:58 pm
I like it.
November 5th, 2006 at 5:11 pm
Excelent.
November 5th, 2006 at 5:41 pm
Qualifying my comment somewhat -I agree with Rohan Quinby above. while I do like the change to the stats as an improvement, I heartily agree that for someone who wants to really analyse their reader stats, wp stats doesn’t really tell you anything. Unless you know they why, the how and the who it’s really just another number.
November 5th, 2006 at 5:50 pm
This is great! Thanks for the continual improvement of the site. I love wordpress!
November 5th, 2006 at 6:09 pm
wow !!!
Great
thankx
November 5th, 2006 at 6:29 pm
I really like this thing..
November 5th, 2006 at 6:35 pm
I love this! Now I’m going to be even more obssesed with the checking of the stats. Thank you!
November 5th, 2006 at 7:02 pm
nifty
November 5th, 2006 at 7:07 pm
Pretty nice, I really like improvements of the statistics area
November 6th, 2006 at 12:25 am
wow!
November 6th, 2006 at 12:51 am
great!!
it’s a surprise when i login!!
thanks!
November 6th, 2006 at 2:08 am
Cool.. Thanks.
November 6th, 2006 at 3:58 am
Wonderful feature!
November 6th, 2006 at 4:09 am
Wow! It is very cool! Thanks and Thanks…
Keep growing and introducing new techs..
Best Smile,
Zeezat
November 6th, 2006 at 4:43 am
Woohoo! My wishes came true. This is what I wanted most! Thank you! Thank you!
November 6th, 2006 at 5:26 am
Goody! It is highly advantageous in the sense that people would want to know which topics their readers are liking/recommending/digging
BTW, the graph for posts with varying hits is too congested for comfort….I’d be glad if the ‘frequency’ of the graphs can be selected by the users. Like if I want a weekly trend of the hits, I should be able to do so from a drop-down menu! That would really eb funky
November 6th, 2006 at 10:38 am
Arrrgh stats… more to check up on.
No, really it is a good improvement.
Thanks guys.
v
November 6th, 2006 at 1:05 pm
Thanks!!! Better knowledge about our blogs!
November 6th, 2006 at 3:59 pm
Thanks for new feature, I like it. I was working on a post at the time so I saw it only a few minutes after the change. I didn’t comment then because it has several bugs, thought I’d wait till they were fixed, but it’s still ‘buggy.’ Do you guys know? i.e. one old post received views that day, counted up all the views it had received, but your “total views” = 0 (A new one: received 22 views, your stats = 1)
I’ll wait a few more days before sending in Feedback (–I’m too busy with election). Everybody: VOTE!
November 6th, 2006 at 4:34 pm
Is there a way of, in addition to the stats for each post, to put referals there as well? This way we know how people are getting to the post.
Thanks!
November 6th, 2006 at 5:14 pm
i just checked and now we have a ‘today’s visit’ in the static box.
thanks a lot.
you’re doing a super work, glad to be on board.
November 6th, 2006 at 6:06 pm
[...] An interesting new feature has been added to WordPress.com that allows you to track the stats for individual posts. [...]
November 6th, 2006 at 7:50 pm
Fabulous!
November 6th, 2006 at 9:46 pm
wow, you guys just keep making it better and better..
kudo.. well done..
November 7th, 2006 at 4:22 am
The way wordpress does the stats is much better than those so-called “free webstats” services. It’s very well laidout and it’s a very at-a-glance kind of thing for people like me. Gd job.
November 7th, 2006 at 1:19 pm
Thank you Matt, Excellent addition, Really good News, I like it, I agree with CAROCAT, I love stats on each post
November 7th, 2006 at 4:15 pm
It’s a great idea!!! I love it!!!
I’ve look that if the title of the post are too long in the historical stat of that post the total number of access doesn’t appear(for example this is a title of my post where it happen “Inuyasha and Co : Temi per cellulare W600i”).
And if i can ask for it …it’s possibile to put this historical counter to the page too? I have some image gallery create as page…and i don’t know how the access are on that ones…
Thanks for the attention! And excuse me for my terrible english!!!!
Astasia
November 8th, 2006 at 12:36 pm
The separate column devoted to just the graphic link to the individual graph seems superfluous; why not just have the “Views” items link to that page?
November 8th, 2006 at 5:25 pm
Thankyou for this. I really like it, however, it would be a bit more helpful if the totals were not cut off because I have too long of titles. Maybe the totals could be first before the title instead of following. Regardless, this is really great!
November 9th, 2006 at 1:15 am
nice stuff
November 10th, 2006 at 4:56 am
Just wanted to say thanks for the great stuff you all are doing.. it keeps getting better!
November 12th, 2006 at 5:02 pm
Cool cheers!
November 15th, 2006 at 7:51 pm
I REALLY like this feature!
thanks a million - you guys are innovative !!
Phil—
November 16th, 2006 at 9:02 pm
Really helpful for me. Thanks a lot!
November 20th, 2006 at 1:30 am
much user friendly…
great…
think WE all love the new dashboard
November 24th, 2006 at 5:23 am
woaowww, nice..i really like this feature. thanks!
November 25th, 2006 at 6:45 pm
Something I have been waiting for, and requested for a while now. Thanks so much, made my day.
November 28th, 2006 at 6:07 pm
thanks!
November 30th, 2006 at 6:52 am
Great, wonderful feature and very useful…
November 30th, 2006 at 1:22 pm
Well done Matt. Keep ur good work
December 3rd, 2006 at 3:01 am
I just moved over to WordPress because of its features. Thank you for your commitment to the user experience!
December 9th, 2006 at 12:27 pm
It is perfect!!!
Thanks for taking care of your stats. I hope we will see soon even more analytical statistics!!! WE NWWD THEM
December 9th, 2006 at 12:30 pm
I mean we NEED THEM
April 13th, 2007 at 8:20 am
[...] added a new feature last November which shows the number of hits to each post over time in a nice bar graph. I really [...]
April 27th, 2007 at 5:35 pm
Cool i can’t ever believe so many HITS! GO ON DUDES!