The next plugin that I recommend installing is a Google Analytics plug in.
And this is really a plug in that just allows you to easily and quickly see Google Analytics stats on
the home page of your Wordpress when you sign in on your dashboard.
So there are two that I recommend one is Google Analytics dashboard for WP for Wordpress and then the
other is Google Analytics Hayter.
This is the one that I've been using for a long time over at the time that I've had it installed.
Other plug ins have popped up including this Google Analytics dashboard for W.P. that is a little bit
cleaner but there are still some things that I like about Google Analytics Hayter.
Once you install these what you're going to have to do is sign up for an analytics account.
Let's go ahead and install Google Analytics dashboard for W.P..
Once I installed Google Analytics a new menu item pops up over on the left let's just go to the general
settings to set it up.
There's a really great set up to Tauriel video if you want to watch it that pops up over here on the
right.
Otherwise you can just click authorize plug in.
It's going to ask you to provide your access code first.
You're going to have to click get access code.
This is going to take you to your Google account page where you're going to have to allow the analytics
plug in access to your Google account.
Once you have set that up it will take you to this page where you can copy and paste this code that
it gives you into this access code area right here then click Save access code.
Now it's going to bring up your option for any of your web sites that you have hooked up with Google
Analytics which you're going to have to do right here you can see under select view that I have a number
of Web sites and you tell me courses that I have hooked up and got an analytics for was Google Analytics.
I'll just use my video school online stats and say save changes.
Now let's go back to my dashboard here we're on our dashboard and we haven't really customized the dashboard
before.
But one thing that I can do is I'm going to get rid of this announcement when you sign up for Wordpress
for the first time you get these next steps and actions kind of announcement I'm just going to dismiss
that.
Now we have all of these windows on our home page and down at the bottom we have this Google Analytics
dashboard which I can click and drag and move up to the top in the left or right column really wherever
you want it.
And now this will show the analytics for your web site.
In the past 30 days or you can select a different timeframe.
Now I'm going to go over to my video school online.com dashboard so that you can see a comparison of
the Google Analytics W.P. which is here on the left or the Google analytic cator plug in which is over
here on the right.
You see that is very similar.
It has status from the past 30 days includes different things like the number of people who have visited
your site.
The page views the sessions the bounce rate different things on the left you have organic search how
many people are coming actually from search rather than directly page load time session duration all
kinds of different stats on the right with Google Analytics.
The one thing that I wanted to mention about that plug in which I really like is it shows you your top
five pages.
So it's kind of cool that you can see which pages of yours get the most traffic.
And then down below your top refers.
So if people are coming from a specific site or Also what people are searching to get to your page which
allots not provided you can see here 31000 visits.
They don't show the search results.
That's because of the settings with their search browser and all kinds of things that doesn't allow
Google Analytics to actually share that data with other people it's a privacy thing.
But you can see that some people search for videos online school video and you can dive more into this
in your Google Analytics which is a whole different topic.
But if you want to just see a snapshot of the stats this is a great place to do it.
And one thing that I like to do with these stats is just look at a little bit of a longer timeframe
to see if your Web site is growing.
You can see with the Google Analytics you could only it's shoes past 30 days past 60 days or yesterday
with the Google Analytics dashboard for WP You can choose even up to a year.
And I like the look of these stats.
Now this isn't her my Ebner designs this is for videos go online but you can see that the monthly page
sessions is increasing over the past year.
And this is what you want to see when you are starting a Web site.
If I go even longer two three years you can see the growth of my entire Web site starting where I was
barely getting a thousand page views back in 2014 per month to this past month where you can see over
36000 sessions to my Web site.
So those are the two plug ins remember that you're going to have to set up Google Analytics.
If you haven't done so already and if you have any other questions please feel free to let me know.