One of the most important things you’ll do after setting up a church website is analyzing who your visitors are and how they’re learning about you.
One of the best ways to accomplish this is through the use of hit counters.
The good news is that WordPress.com already has hit-counter and statistics software installed on your blog. So if you’re using the free website all you have to do is click on “Blog Stats” on your WordPress Dashboard
From here you can see your most recent number of visitors, the number of sites who have linked to you, and the most popular pages on your site.
Going Deeper
If you’re hosting your own wordpress blog and looking for even more statistics, you can check out some free services from sites like statcounter.com and GoStats.com. These sites will instruct you on how to insert a small snippet of code into your blog to track a multitude of data points.
Unfortunately, since WordPress.com does not allow JavaScript widgets, use of these sites on WordPress.com will be confined to only very basic statistics.
