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Use your site stats

Use your site stats

- [Instructor] Let's talk numbers. This is your stats page. It's got a lot of spiffy graphs, charts and lists that show you how many visits your site gets and what your most popular content is and other helpful insights. It's the perfect place to get an overview of your site's activity. The site I've been working on in this course is new and visits are almost nonexistent. But hey, everybody's got to start somewhere, right? Let's look around a bit. This first insight shows me my posting activity. Now, since I just started, I've only got posts in the current month. But this is a great tool to visualize how frequently you publish content. You can also get overviews of your site traffic by day, week, month, or even years. Again, my traffic is pitiful, but the longer your website is out there, the more regularly you publish content, you'll see the numbers for your site grow. Now, if I hover over the graph for any given…

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