Recently an earlier post on Nitro Candy made it onto StumbleUpon (thanks, readers!) and this drew quite a few page views. This makes me feel great: I like writing when others are reading. Anyway, my previous statistics provider wasn’t really up to the task of handling more than 500 page views in a 24 hour period, so I decided it’d be a good idea if I could integrate my stats with Wordpress itself.

Now I’m using StatPress to handle analysing incoming traffic, including bots and pingbacks. The plugin install is straightforward, and the software itself needs no configuration nor modification to existing pages. The package seems sound, for now, and I’ll continue to use it into the future. Once I’m more familiar with it I’ll post an update to this entry.

The only real problem will occur when the site receives too much traffic that it completely melts. A good Digging or Slashdotting would do the trick. At that time I won’t be able to access my statistics. As useless as it’d be, in the meantime I’m keeping my external statistics provider on the offchance that this Digging or Slashdotting occurs.

Update: it looks like there’s a remix version called StatPress Plus which has additional granularity features. This means you can narrow the stats down to just Firefox users, or just Mac OSX users, for example. I haven’t yet tried it out.