StatPress

By Daniele Lippi (http://www.irisco.it/)

• Why it's awesome: StatPress gives you detailed insights into what's happening on your blog in real time

• Why it was picked: Ease of install, stability, owning the stats versus renting the stats with a third party

• Manual Install URL: http ://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/statpress/

• Automatic Install search term: StatPress

• Geek level: Newbie

• Configuration location: Top Navigation | StatPress | Options

• Used in: Administration

Statistics are key to understanding what's working on your website and what's not. StatPress gives you all of the same basic information that a third-party service like Google Analytics does. However, with StatPress, you actually own the data versus merely renting it. Also, most third-party analytic tools use JavaScript to track visitor movement. This additional JavaScript call increases the load time of your website and misses any visitors who do not have JavaScript enabled.

Key datapoints

StatPress collects a lot...