WordPress Plugin Review: StatPress
Posted by Nile | Posted in Plugins | Posted on 01-27-2010 | 6 Comments
Tags: statistics, statpress
I really enjoy using StatPress. Let me re-phrase that – I really enjoyed using StatPress for a time. I would review StatPress Reloaded, but it is only compatible to 2.7.1 and seems to not have any updates soon.
StatPress is a real-time statistics plugin for users to install on their WordPress blog and be able to check through their administration panel. Stats includes are visitors per day, feeds per day, what browsers people are using when visiting, referring sites, and IPs. The plugin was created by Daniele Lippi. Note: Recently Daniele introduced StatPress.org, but still has a StatPress support forum at his site.
The plugin is great, but word of caution is to make sure anyone using this plugin limits the days that they will allow StatPress to collect information. This is important as you can drive up your database. This is also a plugin that does not remove itself fully when you uninstall. You have to go in and manually remove the data tables. This plugin can be bulky and even crash at times.
Sometimes it is slowly when gathering data, so if you have a larger site, you might have to wait a few extra moments for this plugin to do its work. It is useful, but for larger sites, this plugin might not be ideal.
In my humble opinion, it is probably better to try Google Analyticator or the WordPress.com statistics instead.
Do you use StatPress or have you? Or do you use another statistics plugin.
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I’ve used StatPress Reloaded on my site for over 2 years and I’ve enjoyed it. My only question is that it always reads higher then every other stats App that I might use. StatPress is consistently higher that Google Analytics. Usually by at least 150 users. Any thoughts about why that might be?
This is the same as server stats. They tend to read higher. So, when you are working on your website or visiting yourself, you are being configured into those stats, even more so if you have an Internet Provider with dynamic IPs. Each time you connect or reset your connection, you might have a different IP… then your site will count that as if a unique visitor.
So even while your logged in, you’re being counted? I don’t have that option turned on. Would Google read the same stats, or is Google smarter?
All the IP addresses that I’m seeing aren’t from my area though.
I would say since Google does have a built and tested algorithm, it would work a lot better. I removed StatPress… just one less plugin to load on my server. Despite the convenience of it being there, Google does have a few extra goodies in stats.