Ok, I have done a pile of WordPress sites over the years (this one is #305 of 478 total websites) and to my clients stats were always important.
Apps like Yoast are good at fine tuning posts, with the formerly great Google tracking to see visitor response. But even with plugins like Post Counts there was always one stat that seemed elusive…
When you have a variety of categories on a site, such as Deosil, it is tricky sometimes to figure what ‘type’ of posts are popular. Sure you know how many people have read my ‘Easy-Peasy Bed Warmer Soup‘ post, but harder to find out if people prefer the ‘Dinner’ category over the ‘Lunch’, or my ‘Poetry’ over the ‘Prose’.
So of course I ‘had’ to build something of my own, ergo ‘WP-Views’. It works well enough, though I notice that the cache plugin seems to defeat getting total numbers. That is next on the to-do list but for now it gets me a rough idea, percentage wise, of what people are reading.
Cheers,
Mark
(that’s the OsoBar above showing my ever-growing collection of utilities and mini-apps… lol)