In your website’s Traffic Settings, you can configure options related to the visits your site receives. This guide will explain each setting.
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To visit the Traffic Settings:
- Visit your site’s dashboard.
- Navigate to Tools → Marketing (or Jetpack → Settings if using WP-Admin.)
- At the top of the screen, click on the Traffic tab.
Each setting found here is explained below.
This section of the guide applies to sites with the WordPress.com Creator or Entrepreneur plan. If your site has one of our legacy plans, this feature is available on the Pro plan.
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This section of the guide applies to sites with our WordPress.com Explorer, Creator and Entrepreneur plans. If your site has one of our legacy plans, this feature is available on the Pro plan.
Cloudflare Analytics is a tool that offers ways to view and filter details about the traffic coming to your website.
To learn how to add Cloudflare Analytics to your website, visit our Cloudflare Analytics guide.
This section of the guide applies to sites with our WordPress.com Explorer, Creator and Entrepreneur plans. If your site has one of our legacy plans, this feature is available on the Pro plan.
Google Analytics is a free service that complements our built-in stats with different insights into your traffic.
To learn how to add Google Analytics to your website, visit our Connect to Google Analytics guide.
Sitemaps are specially formatted pages that let search engines know what pages exist on your site and where to locate them. After you’ve verified your site on Google, Bing, or Yandex, you can submit your sitemap to those services so that search engines can easily find all the pages on your site.
For more information about Sitemaps, visit our guide to Find Your Sitemap.
Verify your website with search engines and other services to unlock extra insights and features for your website. Google, Bing, Pinterest, Yandex, and Facebook will provide you with a small piece of code, which you can add to your website here in the Traffic Settings.
For step-by-step instructions on verifying your site with each service, visit our guides for Google, Bing, Pinterest, Yandex, and Facebook.
