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As I said last week, I worked a lot on my Worpdress ZdStatistics plugin recently, and  I released last version today. It is available directly on WordPress.

Version 2.0 is a major improvement for the plugin. A Major improvement in the way that all code was re-written (or at least 99% of it).

  • All charts are now using Google Vizualisation instead of OpenFlashChart. Why did I decide to do that kind of change ? Mainly because of compatibility issues and the “ajaxy” part of the chart that led to “undefined” data. – see these screenshots
  • Better spam detection, using spamhaus.org (or any other provider as it’s an option). This will prevent the system to record known spammers as visitors.
  • Blacklist of IPs is now much more human readable. btw, if you want to be sure it works, empty all textarea fields, then reactivate the plugin, it will reset to default values.
  • Outgoing links ! Yes you’re not misunderstanding, it now records all outgoing links. Track where your readers are going while reading your blog.
  • Geolocalization will now display Google maps with visible points for location visiting your blog.
  • CSV Export of any page

This is probably not all improvements I made but as  I said, I’ve re-written everything and can’t really remember how it was before ;)

Just to conclude, this is to me – and I’m trying to be as objective as possible – the BEST statistics tool you can find for WordPress.

By the way, If you like my work, don’t hesitate to donate ;)


I learned recently that Wikimedia, the foundation that is making Wikipedia,  is on the road to migrate their servers to a single Linux Distribution. Until then, they are using various flavors of Linux Redhat and Fedora.

They said that this move will will allow to simplify their system administration.

Wikimedia has around 400 servers running and this is a major move for Ubuntu and will give the distribution the credibility it needs in large scale environments.

Indeed, Wikimedia server manage more than 10 Billion pageviews a month and peeks can see 50 000 hits per seconds.

Wikimedia is a rapidly growing technical environment as during their first 18 month they got for 15 server to 200.

Canonical prooves again the popularity and stability of their distribution, after releasing the first server edition in 2005.

Note that the new edition of Ubuntu (Intrepid Ibex) will be released at the end of October.

As I already said before, ZdStatistics version 2.0 will be out next week. It is quite operationnal and less spam is caught in the statistics as well as redirections.

This simply means that statistics are much more realistics. This new version will allow more tips and tricks for spam detection thanks to the search engine included.

As for now, I’m still evaluating the possibiility to include outgoing links into the stats for version 2 (don’t worry it will come in version 2.1 if not in V2.0).

Below are some screenshots of the new features of the plugin.

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