We have two quick announcements about new Stats features. The first one affects everyone with a WordPress.com blog. The second is just for those who have marked their blogs Private.
The WordPress.com Admin Bar (visible at the top of your screen if you are logged into WordPress.com) now shows a tiny stats chart called a sparkline. You will only see the sparkline on your own blogs. Here’s a screenshot of my admin bar:
The chart consists of 48 upright bars representing the last 48 hours of page views for the current blog. Darker lines indicate nighttime according to the blog’s time zone setting. This is just to give you a rough overview of recent activity. The chart is also a link to the Site Stats page so you’re that much closer to the full picture. The sparkline has been available to self-hosted WordPress.org users through Jetpack for several months.
Private blogs, which can be viewed only by users chosen by the administrator, now track the page views of all of their users. Traditionally we have omitted the views attributed to a blog’s own users because stats were meant to reflect the activity of the general public. However, this meant that private blogs had no useful stats reports. This change will be especially useful for private blogs that have many users.
How are your stats looking today? To get those numbers moving, check out Scott’s recent post on How to Get More Traffic.
Awesome, always wanted this feature!
i really don’t see what it does except be an easy clickable link to see your views. I am not complaining. I am just not grasping its major effect. But any additions to wordpress is cool with me.
I had no idea that the darker lines indicated nighttime! Sparklines are so cool!
Cool.
Thanks for the sparklines. As I’m visually challenged and the sparklines are gray and placed on the gray navigation bar, and as day and night are depicted as other shades of gray, I’m wondering if you would please consider choosing to use color as I’m having so much difficulty discerning the multple shades of gray.
Cool. Love the possibility to have stats for private blogs, too!
This is a great feature. I love checking my blog stats frequently to know my visitors and see how and what to write. Thanks again.
Nice detail, helps. well done. usefull
Brilliant! Thanks x
Way cool, I just had to go and click on it.
-John
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Very fun!
I just started a second, new, blog recently at http://www.getintomedicineuk.com so it should be fun to see it grow.
I was wondering what that was.. sounds really awesome!
Edwin