One you’ve created a website, one of the first things you need to do is start tracking traffic. When you traffic your visitor’s traffic, you can gather data to plan a strategy to either create new content, or improve on your current site’s copy. In the end, with gathering this data, your goal is to get people to read your content, share your posts, fill out your lead forms, and above all, buy your stuff.
With WordPress, you can either figure out how to add tracking software to the site, or use a plugin. In this article, you’ll learn 8 of the best WordPress plugins for analytics.
What’s an Analytics Plugin?
An analytics plugin is designed to measure the traffic data of a website. In most cases, when you install an analytics plugin in WordPress, you can gather websites traffic site's insights without leaving your dashboard. Some of the more popular analytics plugins use Google Analytics, WordPress.com stats, or Clicky for gathering website traffic statistics.
Of the 3 analytics services, Google Analytics is one of the more popular ones, with 30-50 million users. The only thing that most analytic plugins can’t do, is run any Google Goals campaigns. That is something you will have to do directly from Google Analytics.













