Google Analytics is free, powerful tool for tracking your website statistics. In early May, Google raised the bar again, launching a major upgrade to Google Analytics, featuring a slick new user interface and vastly improved features for slicing and dicing data and making comparisons across time and between sections of your site.
Not surprisingly bloggers do show up on the wordpress.com forum who want to use Google analytics. However, wordpress.com bloggers are sharing a multi-user blogging platform. Only one Google urchin script can be run on a any site at any time and, WordPress already runs Google analytics on our blogs to determine our blog stats.
WordPress.com bloggers do not have access to Google analytics that run on our blogs and, while it’s true that we can have 3rd party stats meters, they will not give you referrers as we can cannot use the counters that rely on javascript. We can only use html stat counters on wordpress.com blogs.
Can I have a stat counter on my blog?
Can I use javascript on my blog?
If you feel that this information is critical to your blogging experience then please note that there is another wordpress option for you. You can hire a web host and download free wordpress.org software.
References:
WordPress.com and wordpress.org – the differences
WordPress.com versus wordpress.org
Google analytics, How to, statistics, wordpress
Posted on December 21, 2007 by timethief
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