6 Wordpress Plugins that Enhance Google Analytics on your blog

Google Analytics, without a doubt is the leading site statistics tracking tool in the terms of usability, on the web. But, in a dynamic environment such as a Wordpress blog, we are too often limited to only experience a fraction of the features offered through Google Analytics.

You may just want to track the number of visits to you blog, or you might want to track every outbound link or even AdSense cliks and YPN too. Whatever your needs are, the following Wordpress plugins can give you exactly what you need from Google Analytics, without the hassle of copying and pasting tracking codes to all your pages.

RSS Link Tagger for Google Analytics

This is one of the plugins that has a specific usage. RSS Link Tagger for Google Analytics conveniently modifies RSS permalinks to include utm queries, so that you can track your feed subscription conversions, the same way you track non-AdWords advertising campaigns. » Plugin Home

DBD Footprints

Yeah I know. This is not exactly a branded Google Analytics plugin, but it gets the simplest job done – Adding Google Analytics tracking code. Since Google Analytics and other plugins are most of the time supplying Javascript snippets, it’s important to add these codes at the very end of the HTML body to save the page loading time. And this nifty little plugin gives you the ability to do just that. » Plugin Home

Google Analytics for Wordpress

This is my choice of a Google Analytics plugin. It does everything you need it to do,, plus more! The Google Analytics for Wordpress plugin automatically tracks and segments all outbound links from within posts, comment author links, links within comments, blogroll links and downloads. It also allows you to track AdSense clicks, add extra search engines, track image search queries and it will even work together with Urchin. Pretty cool, huh? » Plugin Home

Ultimate Google Analytics

This does the same stuff that “Google Analytics for Wordpress” plugin does. It’s suitable for those of you who don’t really know whether you want to use the Advanced Features of Google Analytics. In the basic plugin view, it’ll give you the basic features of Google Analytics. But if you wish to have more, you can switch to the Advanced views which pretty much integrates all the advance Google Analytics features to your blog. » Plugin Home

WP Google Analytics

Not as flash as the two plugins before, but can spherically be configured to track stuff like searches (as /search/{search}?referrer={referrer}), not track user roles (administrators, editors, authors, etc) and log anything in the admin areas in Wordpress. » Plugin Home

Local Analytics

Are you an efficiency freak? Worried about the page loading times of your blog? Then you should try out Local Analytics first. The plugin is highly configurable and also allows caching of the ga.js file locally, inorder to enable faster loading of pages. Includes support for tracking subdomains and main domain in a single profile as well as Yahoo Publisher Network ad clicks alongside AdSense ad clicks. » Plugin Home