Automattic, the company behind the blogging software Wordpress, has now released their official version of Automattic Stat ( traffic statistics management plugin) for Wordpress blogs. This wordpress plugin can tracks post and page views, referrers, search terms, and clicks on your external links. Their functionality is more like light weight of other popular traffic related website like Google Analytics.

Here is some summary of Automattic Stats wordpress plugin does provide under Blog Stat page:-

• Referrers: The source referral URLs you see here.
• Top Posts: These posts on your blog got the most traffic.
• Search Engine Terms: These are terms people used to find your blog.
• Clicks: The Visitor Clicks on your Blog.
• Blog Stats: Summary of your Blog Stats.
• Incoming Links: Seems to be the same Technorati one in your Dashboard.

Installing Automattic Stats plugin is much like Installing Akismet. You have to download Automattic Stat and upload it (unzipped) to your wp-content/plugins/ folder. After that, you need to activate the automattic stat plugin from your dashboard and entering your Wordpress.com API before it get working. After twenty minutes, You can start seeing your web blog statistic already.

Here is some of the screenshot that Automattic stat plugin:-

My review

Currently i got a lot of web traffic management services is really better than automattic stat. While we have detail stats like Google Analyticshas a simple and straight forward report. But this traffic statistics management plugin perhaps will ease our life for tracking our blog traffic for simple report only. So what is your comment aboout Automattic Stat ?

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