Joost de Valk

<p>Based on ideas in an <a href="http://www.kaushik.net/avinash/2007/11/blog-metrics-six-recommendations-for-measuring-your-success.html" rel="nofollow ugc">excellent post</a> by Avinash Kaushik this plugin calculates the following:</p>
<ul>
<li>average number of posts per month</li>
<li>average number of words per post</li>
<li>average number of comments per post without your own comments</li>
<li>average number of trackbacks per post</li>
<li>average number of words used in comments to posts</li>
</ul>
<p>and it calculates the same data for the last month, and for each author too!</p>
<p>Includes a widget for your sidebar too!</p>
<p>More info:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://yoast.com/wordpress/blog-metrics/" rel="nofollow ugc">Blog Metrics</a>.</li>
<li>Read more about <a href="http://yoast.com/articles/wordpress-seo/" rel="nofollow ugc">WordPress SEO</a> so you can get the most out of this plugin.</li>
<li>Other <a href="http://yoast.com/wordpress/" rel="nofollow ugc">WordPress plugins</a> by the same author.</li>
</ul>


Blog Metrics

Based on ideas in an excellent post by Avinash Kaushik this plugin calculates some statistics about your blog.

braekling

<p><strong>Version 1.1.7 includes a security related fix, it is highly recommended to update to this or a later version.</strong></p>
<p>If you are not yet using Matomo On-Premise, Matomo Cloud or hosting your own instance of Matomo, please use the <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/matomo/" rel="ugc">Matomo for WordPress plugin</a>.</p>
<p>This plugin uses the Matomo API to show your Matomo statistics in your WordPress dashboard. It’s also able to add the Matomo tracking code to your blog and to do some modifications to the tracking code. Additionally, WP-Matomo supports WordPress networks and manages multiple sites and their tracking codes.</p>
<p>To use this plugin the Matomo web analytics application is required. If you do not already have a Matomo setup (e.g., provided by your web hosting service), you have two simple options: use either a <a href="http://matomo.org/" rel="nofollow ugc">self-hosted Matomo</a> or a <a href="https://www.innocraft.cloud/?pk_campaign=WP-Piwik" rel="nofollow ugc">cloud-hosted Matomo by InnoCraft</a>.</p>
<p><strong>Requirements:</strong> PHP 7.0 (or higher), WordPress 5.0 (or higher), Matomo 4.0 (or higher)</p>
<p><strong>Languages:</strong> English, Albanian, Chinese, Dutch, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil). Partially supported: Azerbaijani, Belarusian, Hindi, Lithuanian, Luxembourgish, Norwegian, Persian, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian</p>
<h4>What is Matomo?</h4>
<p><span class="embed-youtube" style="text-align:center; display: block;"><iframe loading="lazy" class="youtube-player" width="750" height="422" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Qc2kooLNDiU?version=3&rel=1&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&fs=1&hl=en-US&autohide=2&wmode=transparent" allowfullscreen="true" style="border:0;" sandbox="allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox"></iframe></span><br />
<a href="https://matomo.org/what-is-matomo/" rel="nofollow ugc">Learn more.</a></p>
<h4>First steps</h4>
<ul>
<li>Learn how to install your own Matomo instance: <a href="https://matomo.org/docs/requirements/" rel="nofollow ugc">Requirements</a>, <a href="https://matomo.org/docs/installation-optimization/" rel="nofollow ugc">Installation</a>.</li>
<li>If you need support about Matomo, please have a look at the <a href="https://forum.matomo.org/" rel="nofollow ugc">Matomo forums</a>.</li>
<li>Finally, you can start <a href="https://matomo.org/blog/2015/05/wordpress-integration-wp-piwik-1-0/" rel="nofollow ugc">setting up WP-Matomo</a>.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Shortcodes</h4>
<p>You can use following shortcodes if activated:</p>
<pre><code>[wp-piwik module="overview" title="" period="day" date="yesterday"]
</code></pre>
<p>Shows overview table like WP-Matomo’s overview dashboard. See Matomo API documentation on VisitsSummary.get to get more information on period and day. Multiple data arrays will be cumulated. If you fill the title attribute, its content will be shown in the table’s title.</p>
<pre><code>[wp-piwik module="opt-out" language="en" width="100%" height="200px"]
</code></pre>
<p>Shows the Matomo opt-out Iframe. You can change the Iframe’s language by the language attribute (e.g. de for German language) and its width and height using the corresponding attributes.</p>
<pre><code>[wp-piwik module="post" range="last30" key="sum_daily_nb_uniq_visitors"]
</code></pre>
<p>Shows the chosen keys value related to the current post. You can define a range (format: lastN, previousN or YYYY-MM-DD,YYYY-MM-DD) and the desired value’s key (e.g., sum_daily_nb_uniq_visitors, nb_visits or nb_hits – for details see Matomo’s API method Actions.getPageUrl using a range).</p>
<pre><code>[wp-piwik]
</code></pre>
<p>is equal to <em>[wp-piwik module=”overview” title=”” period=”day” date=”yesterday”]</em>.</p>
<h4>Credits and Acknowledgements</h4>
<ul>
<li>Graphs powered by <a href="https://www.chartjs.org" rel="nofollow ugc">Chart.js</a> (MIT License).</li>
<li>All translators at Transifex and WordPress.</li>
<li>Anyone who donates to the WP-Matomo project, including the Matomo team!</li>
<li>All users who send me mails containing criticism, commendation, feature requests and bug reports – you help me to make WP-Matomo much better!</li>
</ul>
<p>Thank you all!</p>


Connect Matomo – Analytics Dashboard for WordPress

This plugin does what it claims very easily.  But also gives a lot of options if you want to customize your tracking.

Well designed plugin

Adds Matomo (former Piwik) statistics to your WordPress dashboard and is also able to add the Matomo Tracking Code to your blog.

Blog Metrics vs Connect Matomo – Analytics Dashboard for WordPress