I am currently running two plugins for keeping track of stats. I was originally running Stat Traq which I thought was great. Although it was my first stat plugin, and I was thrilled to see how many people were actually visiting my site. Stat Traq tracks the public activity on your WordPress blog and reports on:

* Hits
* Number of Unique PHP sessions
* Page Views
* IP Addresses (includes link to ARIN Who Is?)
* Browser
* Referrer
* Search Terms from major search engines
* Bar graphs generated for some of the reports

More recently I have installed Firestats, after seeing the plugin in action on Saman Sadeghi’s site. What initially made me want this plugin was its ability to pair Country with IP Address. It’s features are:

* Basic hit statistics (hits ever, in last 24 days etc)
* Recent popular pages
* Recent referers
* Browser and OS trees, grouped by what matters
* IP to country – know where your visitors are surfing from
* A list of recent hits
* Excluding unwanted hits from the display
- By IP address
- By user-agent (to be used to filter bots)

* Ajax UI, no need to reload the whole page – just press the ‘refresh statistics’ button to get the latest data.
* Designed to work on all browsers.

There are many overlaps in these two plugins, but there are also benefits to both of them. I like the stats that Firestats brings, like the countries and browser, especially the ability to display this in the comments by the user. And I like to see the breakdown of daily stats that Stat Traq keeps track of.

So, currently I am running both, but eventually will cut one of them. I’d love to hear your opinions on these, or any others that you use to analyze your stats on your site.