WordPress Blog Statistics: SiteKit Plugin Complete Guide

WordPress doesn’t handle statistics management on its own like Tistory blogs do. We’re very curious about things like how many visitors we get after publishing blog posts. For this, one WordPress blog statistics sitekit plugin is all you need. Let’s take a look at what features it offers.

WordPress Blog Statistics

When I first started my WordPress blog, there was one thing that bothered me. It was the fact that I couldn’t immediately check statistics like I could on a Tistory blog.

For Tistory blogs, as shown above, it automatically generates visitor and view statistics graphs without any action required on our part.

Furthermore, a major advantage is that below the graph, you can check which posts had the most visitors not only daily but also weekly and monthly.

However, those starting a WordPress blog might find these features unfamiliar at first glance. At least, that was my experience.

WordPress SiteKit Plugin

WordPress itself does not provide such statistical features, but you can receive this kind of statistical service by installing a plugin.

One of them is the SiteKit plugin. SiteKit is a plugin provided by Google that allows you to immediately check the performance of your WordPress blog. In other words, it lets you see the information shown in the statistics above.

1) Install the WordPress Sitemaps plugin

Installing the Site Kit plugin is as simple as described above. There’s nothing special about it; just continue through the process and it will install on your WordPress site. Once installation is complete, you’ll see a menu labeled “G Site Kit” in the top left corner.

2) How to Use the WordPress Blog Site Kit

I actually don’t like seeing statistics presented as line graphs. Bar graphs, like those in Tistory blog statistics, seem much more visually comfortable to me. What I can check with

the WordPress SiteKit plugin is traffic, the keywords people use to enter my top blog pages, the blog pages with the most visitors, page speed, and AdSense revenue.

This is a major advantage of SiteKit: with just one plugin, you can see most of your WordPress blog’s performance metrics all at once.

Check traffic

The line graph above shows the daily visitor count. Hover your mouse over the line to see the date and visitor count.

However, the time period settings are a bit disappointing. You can set periods to check the past 7 days, 14 days, 28 days, and finally 90 days, but I wonder if three months isn’t too short.

The donut chart shows how traffic enters your WordPress blog. Like mine, the yellow section indicates that a significant portion of traffic comes from search.

Actually, I think I need to examine this graph more closely. The period above is based on a total of 90 days’ worth of data.

First, the Total Impressions figure represents the total number of times our blog posts appear to internet users in Google search engine results.

Total Clicks refers to the number of times someone directly clicks on a blog post title to enter my blog, as displayed in Google search engine results.

Finally, Unique Visitors from search refers to the number of visitors coming to our blog. This figure includes all paths: visitors arriving via search engines, those directly entering the URL, and those accessing the site through bookmarks.

For example, in my case, over the past three months, only 16 clicks were generated from my blog posts exposed on Google’s search engine, yet the total number of blog visitors reached 7.5K.

In other words, it means that more visitors come through other search engines like Naver, Bing, and Daum rather than Google Search. Of course, some may also come through other internal or external links.

Content

Regarding content, you can review visitor counts, sessions, engagement rates, and dwell time for keywords and currently popular blog posts.

Engagement Rate represents the percentage of visitors who actively engage with a blog post by performing actions such as staying on the post for 10 seconds or more, viewing two posts, or clicking a button within the post.

Speed and AdSense

You’re probably aware that you can check site speed using Google PageSpeed Insights and revenue using the AdSense site. With SiteKit, you can view all this information at once through the Speed and Monetization menus.

How to Check Statistics for a Specific Blog Post

You may want to check the statistics for a specific blog post among the posts you’ve published so far, rather than for your entire blog site.

At the top of SiteKit, you’ll see a magnifying glass icon next to the time period setting. Clicking it will reveal a field where you can enter a URL. Simply input the address and proceed.

This will allow you to view the traffic, keywords, speed, and revenue information specific to that blog post, as explained above.

How to Use the WordPress Blog Site Kit

Since SiteKit is a service provided by Google, it’s easy to track how much my content is exposed in Google search results and how much traffic comes in through clicks.

The low impression and click counts mentioned earlier indicate that my WordPress blog posts are not being properly displayed in Google search results.

My blog gets over 200 visitors daily, but if I only get about 10 clicks, that means most of the traffic comes from other search engines like Naver.

In this case, to increase traffic (visitors), we recommend either utilizing the existing Naver search engine more effectively or identifying and addressing the reasons why your content isn’t ranking well or receiving clicks on Google. By doing so, you can expect to gradually see an increase in traffic.

Conclusion

Today, we discussed installing, using, and applying the WordPress blog statistics site kit plugin.

Actually, my blog site has always struggled to appear in Google search results. I’m still not sure

whether this is because the quality of my blog posts isn’t good enough, or if it’s because my newly launched WordPress blog inherently has a low domain score, putting it at a disadvantage in the competition for visibility.

However, if for some reason my blog starts ranking well on Google search, I’ll update it immediately. Since search engine visibility for

blogs—the foundation of online business—directly impacts a business’s success or failure, I feel I need to study even harder. I hope today’s small piece of online business experience from Fly Kiwi has been helpful to you all.