{"id":99457,"date":"2012-10-27T15:24:20","date_gmt":"2012-10-27T19:24:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wpmu.org\/?p=99457"},"modified":"2013-05-14T15:22:42","modified_gmt":"2013-05-14T19:22:42","slug":"know-your-traffic-simply-and-easily-with-wp-slim-stat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/know-your-traffic-simply-and-easily-with-wp-slim-stat\/","title":{"rendered":"Know Your Traffic Simply and Easily with WP Slim Stat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Knowing your traffic sources at your WordPress site is absolutely vital if you want to succeed at having a business or a blog. <a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.org\/extend\/plugins\/wp-slimstat\/\" target=\"_blank\">WP Slim Stat<\/a> offers you comprehensive data on your traffic sources in an easy-to-use interface.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-99461 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/SlimStat-IMG1.jpg\" alt=\"Post image\" aria-hidden=\"true\" width=\"976\" height=\"424\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>Step 1: Install<\/h2>\n<p>It\u2019s simple. Click <strong>Plugins -&gt; Add New <\/strong>and search for Slimstats. The result will show as <strong>WP Slim Stat<\/strong>. Install and activate, and you\u2019re ready to use it.<\/p>\n<h2>Step 2: Check your Stats<\/h2>\n<p>You\u2019ll find <strong>Slim Stat<\/strong> as a part of the <strong>Dashboard<\/strong>. You have the following data sets to work with:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Right Now<\/li>\n<li>Overview<\/li>\n<li>Visitors<\/li>\n<li>Content<\/li>\n<li>Traffic Sources<\/li>\n<li>World Map<\/li>\n<li>Custom Reports<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The labels are pretty self-explanatory, but in a nut shell, you can learn who is doing stuff on your site, where they are from, which sites or search engines they came from, what content they\u2019ve been viewing, and whether or not they\u2019re a <strong>human<\/strong> or a <strong>bot<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-99462 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/SlimStat-IMG2.jpg\" alt=\"Post image\" aria-hidden=\"true\" width=\"844\" height=\"550\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Here is a brief snapshot of some of the overview data you can work with. The beauty of Slim Stats is that it requires a very, very small learning curve, yet it provides all of the information you could want on your visitors.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-99463 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/traffic-fi.jpg\" alt=\"Post image\" aria-hidden=\"true\" width=\"440\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This tool works extremely well in conjunction with other CRM tools and WordPress Plugins.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Complex Analytic Data Made Simple with WP Slim Stat<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":132058,"featured_media":99463,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"blog_reading_time":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_tutorials_categories":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[4549],"tutorials_categories":[],"class_list":["post-99457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-plugins","tag-statistics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/132058"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99457"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99457\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":216375,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99457\/revisions\/216375"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/99463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99457"},{"taxonomy":"tutorials_categories","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tutorials_categories?post=99457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}