T w e n t y S i d e d
I have released a new version of the Useless Stats plugin for WordPress.
This new version has a lot more stats for tracking what times and what subjects generate the most interest (dicussion) among your readership. This is just trivia for a niche blog like mine, but for some of the more mainstream blogs (Technology or Politics) or for blogs that are used as a source of ad revenue, this data could actually be pretty useful as a way to target your efforts.
The new version adds a pane to the Management tab in the WordPress admin interface. On this page are charts just like the ones you see below. Finally, there is a section of html that you can cut & paste into a post (or wherever) so you can show these charts to others, as I have done.
Read on to see some of the charts that Useless Stats will generate for you:
Useless Stats for Twenty-Sided
Generated June 15, 2006
- First post was made on September 1, 2005.
- This blog is 286 days old.
- Average of 1.43 posts per day in the past week.
- Average of 2.17 posts per day in the past month.
- Average of 1.30 posts per day since the start of the blog.
- Average of 5.70 comments per post in the past week.
- Average of 5.28 comments per post in the past month.
- Average of 3.05 comments per post since the start of the blog.
This shows how many of the blog’s posts are published on each day of the week. This can be useful to see what days you are most productive, or when you tend to slack off.
(8%)
(13%)
(15%)
(18%)
(16%)
(17%)
(10%)
This shows what how many of the blog’s posts are published in each month.
(10%)
(13%)
(15%)
(17%)
(16%)
(7%)
(0%)
(0%)
(6%)
(1%)
(4%)
(6%)
This shows how much discussion is generated on average for posts published on various days of the week. This is useful for determining when users are most responsive. For example, you may find people are less likely to leave comments on weekends.
This shows how much discussion is generated on average for posts published for each category. This is useful for determining what subjects generate the most interest among your readers.
Crash Dot Com
Back in 1999, I rode the dot-com bubble. Got rich. Worked hard. Went crazy. Turned poor. It was fun.
Revisiting a Dead Engine
I wanted to take the file format of a late 90s shooter and read it in modern-day Unity. This is the result.
The Strange Evolution of OpenGL
Sometimes software is engineered. Sometimes it grows organically. And sometimes it's thrown together seemingly at random over two decades.
Pixel City Dev Blog
An attempt to make a good looking cityscape with nothing but simple tricks and a few rectangles of light.
Grand Theft Railroad
Grand Theft Auto is a lousy, cheating jerk of a game.
Is this going to be updated to work with 2.3.1? I just tried it and got the error:
WordPress database error: [Table ‘wrdp1.wp_categories’ doesn’t exist]
SELECT cat_ID, cat_name, category_count FROM wp_categories WHERE cat_ID > 0 ORDER BY cat_name
Warning: max() [function.max]: Array must contain at least one element in /home/demp/public_html/y/wp-content/plugins/useless_stats.php on line 193