It's good to know about your blog's readers, get comments from them on your popular posts, but it's not enough when strategically growing your blog, you need some more strategy to know more about your current traffic, unique visitors, repeated visitors, most visited pages on your blog, and daily report or monthly report. So monitoring your blog will help to analyze your blog post reports. There are two monitoring options readily available as Google product. They are Blogger Stats and Google Analytics. Lets see one by one in details.
Stats is an important feature of the blogger, as it allows you to track your blog's traffic and find out exactly what your audience is looking for. As such, integrated, real-time stats have been one of the most frequently used options in blogger.
Feature Highlights
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Blog Stats currently provides 4 different types of analysis reports to review your blog statistics.
Overview
Blog Stats Overview depicts the picture of hourly trending traffics, summary of Todays view's count, yesterday's view count, last month and all time view's counts and your followers count. It also gives the number of posts, chart view and map view Your blog stats.
Posts
Posts depicts the picture of the number of posts viewed from today, yesterday, last month And all time. There will be separate view of post and page view counts
Traffic sources
Traffic sources depicts the picture chart as similar to Posts view, but the result is the Referring URLs.
Audience
Graphical map view of your audience, and the report view to show the count of users against the country. Pageviews by Browsers, Pageviews by Operating Systems Date filters to show the current date, Yesterday, current week, current month and all times.
Google Analytics is a digital analytics software with its free web analytics service and graphical reporting. It is a Google product that allows you to analyze in-depth detail about your blog posts and visitors. Google Analytics gives you more control over how that data is collected, and the overview of insights with immediate access to the reports
Blogger analytics count on your own visits by default, and they lack many of the new implementations of analytics. Google Analytics uses an entirely different tracking system than Blogger stats. Google Analytics gives you more control over how that data is collected, allowing you to improve its quality. This includes tag placement, custom dimensions, filtering, segmenting, and custom events that help make the data available to you richer, more accurate, and more useful.
How Google Analytics works
Google Analytics (GA) works by the inclusion of a block of JavaScript code on pages in your blog or website. In blogger by default, this javascript code widget will be there, we have to enable this in settings with GA Code. For websites you have to include the block of javascript code in your html header file, created using Analytics property.
How do I set up Google Analytics for Blogger
In your blog dashboard you can see the "Settings" option. Click Others then in this section, you can fill the Analytics ID in your blog then save. With help of this setup you can start monitor the real-time usage of your blog in the analytics account.
Blogger Stats
Stats is an important feature of the blogger, as it allows you to track your blog's traffic and find out exactly what your audience is looking for. As such, integrated, real-time stats have been one of the most frequently used options in blogger.
Feature Highlights
- Real-time tracking of your blog, Each time your blog is viewed, you can see the change on your stats almost immediately
- Insights about your audience. Top search keywords, countries, browsers, and more
- Great user interface. Beautiful, easy-to-read graphs and charts
Related post: How to create your own blog
Blog Stats currently provides 4 different types of analysis reports to review your blog statistics.
- Overview
- Posts
- Traffic sources
- Audience
Overview
Blog Stats Overview depicts the picture of hourly trending traffics, summary of Todays view's count, yesterday's view count, last month and all time view's counts and your followers count. It also gives the number of posts, chart view and map view Your blog stats.
Posts
Posts depicts the picture of the number of posts viewed from today, yesterday, last month And all time. There will be separate view of post and page view counts
Traffic sources
Traffic sources depicts the picture chart as similar to Posts view, but the result is the Referring URLs.
Audience
Graphical map view of your audience, and the report view to show the count of users against the country. Pageviews by Browsers, Pageviews by Operating Systems Date filters to show the current date, Yesterday, current week, current month and all times.
Google Analytics
Google Analytics is a digital analytics software with its free web analytics service and graphical reporting. It is a Google product that allows you to analyze in-depth detail about your blog posts and visitors. Google Analytics gives you more control over how that data is collected, and the overview of insights with immediate access to the reports
Blogger analytics count on your own visits by default, and they lack many of the new implementations of analytics. Google Analytics uses an entirely different tracking system than Blogger stats. Google Analytics gives you more control over how that data is collected, allowing you to improve its quality. This includes tag placement, custom dimensions, filtering, segmenting, and custom events that help make the data available to you richer, more accurate, and more useful.
How Google Analytics works
Google Analytics (GA) works by the inclusion of a block of JavaScript code on pages in your blog or website. In blogger by default, this javascript code widget will be there, we have to enable this in settings with GA Code. For websites you have to include the block of javascript code in your html header file, created using Analytics property.
How do I set up Google Analytics for Blogger
- Create or sign in to your Analytics account:
- Go to google.com/analytics
- Do one of the following:
- To create an account, click Start for free.
- To sign in to your account, Click Sign in to Analytics.
- Set up a property in your Analytics account. A property represents your website or blog or app, and is the collection point in Analytics for the data from your blog or website or app.
- Set up a reporting view in your property. Views let you create filtered perspectives of your data; for example, all data except from your company’s internal IP addresses, or all data associated with a specific sales region.
- Follow the instructions to add the tracking code to your blog or website, so you can collect data in your Analytics property.
- Click Setting icon then Property Settings then Tracking Info then click Tracking Code. Now you can see the Tracking ID.
- Copy and Past the tracking ID into your blog settings as shown belo.
In your blog dashboard you can see the "Settings" option. Click Others then in this section, you can fill the Analytics ID in your blog then save. With help of this setup you can start monitor the real-time usage of your blog in the analytics account.
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