track statistics for more than 1 wordpress installation on the same host!

  • I’m looking for a plugin or anything which tracks basic stats like pageviews, top-entries and so on for 5 wordpress blogs (all on the same host,data in same db, just different prefixes).
    It would be ok if all the data would just be stored in the same db-tables so I could create the overall stats page myself, but I haven’t found a solution therefore yet.
    The stats which are collected by the wp.com stats plugin would be perfect, but there seems to be no way to get that data and process it manually :/

    Anyone has an idea?

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  • Have you considered Google Analytics? It’s a good service, free, and the load is on their server and not yours. You can also have many sites in the same account, but with the results displayed separately

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    (@hedge)

    Yeah I considered that, but there are some downsides of Google Analytics in my opinion:

    -no API…I can’t make a page so I can’t make a custom page for the public
    -I find all the stats massively exaggerated…there’s no page for the most important ones
    – a lot of users have JS deactivated so bye bye Google Analytics

    If I’m wrong tell me otherwise.

    Depends on what you want. Personally, I advise people I know not to display stats because I think it looks tacky. But that’s just my view, and there are no doubt very good reasons for displaying stats.

    I haven’t found the GA stats to be exaggerated at all — very much in line with other stats I’m using. What leads you to think the stats are inaccurate?

    As for javascript, I don’t know if there are reliable figures, but people on webmasterworld have reported javascript disable rates of less than one to a little over two percent.

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    (@hedge)

    I don’t think the stats are inaccurate…I just think it’s too much stats.

    Hmm…for the javascript thing: my counter reported that 30% of my visitors have JS deactivated. I maybe have to do more research about that.

    If Google Analytics would have an API I’d definately use it, but there is no way to suck data out of it without much struggle.

    https://tantannoodles.com/toolkit/wordpress-reports/

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    (@hedge)

    that is nice but I still can’t process the data myself easily :/

    My thought (non explicit, to be sure) was that if a plugin could do it, perhaps you could too. ??

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    (@hedge)

    I think I can, but I don’t know if it’s worth the time.
    I’m not the best coder so I’d need time to study how the plugin works but I just want some stats about multiple blogs.
    Maybe it would be easier to install a stat plugin in every blog and then proceed these stats manually, but I wanted to avoid a lot new database-tables.

    The other thing is that I don’t thrust google too much. There are some dubious passages in the Google Analytics ToS.

    Hi Hedge: “my counter reported that 30% of my visitors have JS deactivated. I maybe have to do more research about that”

    Does your counter lump bots in with human traffic? That could explain the discrepancy. My own sense is that very few people will deactivate javascript because they don’t see any point and because so many sites use it.

    However, it does seem as if GA isn’t what you’re looking for. That’s fine by me — I’m not on Google’s payroll!

    Hey give this a try. I was browsing and it seems like it may do what you’re asking for.

    wiki.openwebanalytics.com/index.php?title=Installation

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