In this article, we’re going to be discussing WordPress’s ability to track who visited your blog. We will be looking at the pros and cons of this feature and whether or not it is something that you would want to use.
Pros:
1. Tracking visits can help you to improve your blog’s traffic flow.
2. It can help you to understand which parts of your blog are most popular, and which areas could use some improvement.
3. If you run a paid blog, tracking visits can help you to track your revenue.
4. Tracking visits can help you to see who is linking to your blog, and potentially generate new leads for your business.
5. Tracking visits can also help you to see which posts are getting the most engagement (comments, likes, shares etc.
). This information can be helpful in refining your content strategy for future posts.
6. WordPress also offers some powerful analytics tools that can provide even more detailed information about visitor behaviour on your blog.
This information can be used to improve your blogging skills and grow your blog audience even further.
Cons:
1. Tracking visits can be time-consuming and difficult to do manually.
If you have a large number of blogs to monitor, this process could become quite tedious quickly. There is no guarantee that WordPress will always correctly track visitor information, so there is the potential for data inaccuracies if not done correctly.
In addition, if you use custom tracking features (such as Google Analytics), then WordPress may not be able to track these effectively without additional configuration (see below). If you do not want visitors tracked by WordPress, then there is no way to disable this feature completely (although this may be possible with some custom coding).
If visitors are not tracked by WordPress, it will not be possible to see any data about them in the site stats section of the admin panel or in the statistics section of the blog post editor (unless they have added their data manually).