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Wanted: Multi-author analytics for Wordpress
- thesethings 18y agoAgreesies. I've been fighting with the leading analytics packages and hosted tools for a bit, and while I do think stats packages have come a long way, they feel like fancied-up versions of questions we were asking/answering way before content management systems, blogs, multiple authors, social software, categories, etc. We've moved beyond "hits," but we're still stuck in pageviews, visitors, return visitors, etc. All of these things are great to know, but are very ad-buyer centric... Even if you don't care about ads/ad buyers, stats are very geared not to the publisher, but the person comparing your site's traffic, to some other site's traffic. There is a place for this, but I think we need a wave of programs that are just for the publisher... and I hate to suggest a fragmentation, but they probably need to be more aware of different content management systems (WordPress, Drupal, etc.) I am aware of and excited about the promise of open-source Piwik, but its primary goal seems to emulate Google Analytics. About 3 years ago, Performancing had a tool called Pmetrics that was awesome. It didn't think about URL's, it thought of content. Then they changed the whole thing, kept the name, but now it's a 3rd party whitebox software that is pretty friendly (I still recommend it), but nowhere near as cool as it used to be. (Does anybody know what happened to that original software?)