Dean Nelson

I’m testing out a new way of publishing posts right now, through an extension called Performancing. The tool, which I discovered through Wil Wheaton’s website, allows you to not only publish directly from a convenient AJAXy half-window (leaving room for all of your other tabs on the top half of the screen) but you can create a free account with Performancing Metrics to track your site’s stats. Not that I get a ton of traffic here, but I love studying traffic and seeing which sites people are coming from.

Top half – browser; bottom half – Performancing.

The statistics included in Performancing Metrics are:

• Visitors, Repeat Visitors, and Search Engines – At-a-glance graphs of who’s coming to your website.
• Visitors Menu – Allows you to view the following statistics:
• Visitor Stats
• Geography
• Languages
• Browsers
• Platforms
• Screen Resolution
• Activity – Shows you what’s going on with your blog:
• Post Views
• Comments Summary
• Comments by Post
• Categories
• Marketing – If you’re into such things:
• Adsense Clicks
• Referrers
• Search Engines
• Outbound Links

Interestingly enough, my most visited page today was Hard Gay and Josh Blue; however, most of my referrals came from searches on MSN’s search engine for “Mappy” (and “Mappy the police mouse”).

If you run a blog, I highly recommend this extension for its statistics. It’s good for creating new posts too, but I prefer using WordPress’ backend for creating/editing posts as I have extra WP plugins that Performancing can’t utilize (particularly the Flickr Photo Gallery plugin).

Check Performancing out for yourself and bask in its statistical glory.

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