Jalaj P. Jha

The dashboard of your WordPress.com blog now has an additional feature. The graph showing hits for last 30 days now has active links for each day which opens up a summary page showing all (or most of) the referrers, search keywords, top page views, clicks for that day.

That’s a very good feature indeed and the best thing about this feature is that while earlier you could only get number of hits for last 30 days, now you can get those for previous dates too. To clarify just take an example that you click on day 17 of July 2007, the page that opens would bear url as one below.

http://<yourblog>.wordpress.com/wp-admin/index.php?page=stats&blog=<yourblognumber>&day=2007-07-17

now you can manually modify the date to any previous date and fire the page to get the data. This way I could view data for date as early as the opening date (12.12.2006) for this blog by modifying url to one as similar to below.

http://<myblog>.wordpress.com/wp-admin/index.php?page=stats&blog=<myblognumber>&day=2006-12-12

Here is a screen shot for 23.05.2007 when my blog received highest hits that resulted from Get your WordPress.com Blog Google Verified being highlighted by Lorelle in her post that generated traffic from her site,planet wordpress, and google reader.

It is expected that wp.com is coming up with another modification that allows you to view similar page for “Last 30 days” by clicking on the link from the text that says so. It’s not an insider’s news that got leaked out, but just a guess of mine that evolved out of my comment requesting so on wordpress.com blog at http://wordpress.com/blog/2007/07/14/click-a-day/ getting kept in moderation for more than 24 hours, while the comments posted later have passed moderation.

Congratulations to the wp.com for coming up with the new feature and request to consider showing similar page for 30 days data.