Analyze your blog traffic – Wassup wordpress plugin

There are certain tools that can help you in analyzing the blog traffic, like the keywords searched in search engines, referred websites, social bookmarks etc. But some of them are like Awstats, google analytics that require you to go to your cpanel or the google analytics account and then check for everything.

Wassup is a plugin that can help you analyze your blog traffic from your wordpress admin panel and refreshes automatically mentioning the IP address of every visitor, the referrer website or search engine, and the keyword searched.

It has a “current visitors online” view and a more detailed “visitors details” view where you can know almost everything your users are doing on your blog, it’s very useful for SEO or statistics maniacs. It comes with a “Spy” view in Ajax like the Digg Spy.
WassUp works with two anti-spam function to detect and skip (if you want) referers spammers and akismet spammers.

Here is what all you see in the stats -

• ip / hostname
• referer
• spider
• search engines used
• keywords
• SERP (search engine result page)
• operating system / language / browser
• pages viewed (chronologically and per user session)
• complete user agent
• name of user logged in
• name of comment’s author
• top ten charts with aggregate data (top queries, requests, os, browsers)

Installing the plugin -

1. Download the plugin WassUp
2. Uncompress it with your preferred unzip/untar program or use the command line: unzip wassup.zip
3. Copy the directory wassup in your plugins directory at your wordpress blog (/wp-content/plugins)
4. Activate the WassUp WordPress plugin at your Plugins admin page.

There is a lot you can do with the options in this plugin. You can change most of the settings and do everything with the visitor details, spy of the visitors etc.