Google Analytics tracking and Visitor Counter for WordPress blogs

Google Analytics is perhaps the most popular and authentic visitor tracking free service for a website. If you want to invite advertisers to your site, statistics relating to the number of visitors, the number of page views, etc., revealed by Google Analytics will perhaps be the most reliable source of information to convince your potential advertisers. If you use WordPress to power your site or blog, then you can use your current Google Analytics data to be automatically displayed on your site in the form of a counter or a badge with regard to the number of unique users on that day or the number of page views for the current day. Moreover, you can also track your Google Analytics account right from your WordPress dashboard which will obviate the need to login again and again to your Google Analytics account separately.

This is made possible by a free WordPress plugin called Google Analyticator which offers many other features. Have a look at the following counter which displays the number of unique visitors visiting your site in a day, that can be put on your site and it will be automatically updated everyday using the Google Analytics statistics:

Also see the following figure which displays your Google Analytics statistics using the Google Analyticator plugin:

Google Analyticator can easily add Google Analytics tracking support to a WordPress-powered blog. It supports all those tracking mechanisms that Google Analytics supports; for example, external link tracking, download tracking, tracking without counting administrative users, and any other advanced tracking you want to add. It works with a majority of themes.

Google Analyticator has following useful features:

• Standard Google Analytics tracking support.
• Other advanced tracking code provided by Google also supported.
• Allows you to display visitor data on your site.
• On the WordPress dashboard, displaying a graph of the last 30 days of visitors, a summary of site usage, the top pages, the top referrers, and the top searches.
• External link tracking of all links on the web pages, including links that are not managed by WordPress.
• Tracking of the download links for files such as video files, PDF files, music files, etc.
• Event tracking with outbound links / downloads.
• Allows disabling of Administrator visits from being counted in visitors data.
• Easy installation.
• Allows code to be placed in the footer of the web pages to ensure faster their loading.
• Fully customizable; allows you to enable or disable a feature as per your requirements.

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