Before that, you should know how to create Google Analytics as follows:
Step one: You go to the GA website at https://analytics.google.com/. Then login using your Google account. Then, click Start Measuring.
Notes: If you already have a GA in this account, click the Admin button on the bottom left sidebar, under Accounts click Create Account.
Step two: Fill in your account name, feel free, then scroll down and click Next.
Step two- Select Web if this GA account is meant to only see your website traffic. Scroll down again and click Next.
Step four - Fill in the input fields and click Create to complete the web registration.
- Site name, feel free.
- Site URL, select http or https according to whether your website uses SSL or not, in the right column fill in the URL name of your website's main domain without using http or https.
- Industry Category, select one of your web categories.
- Reporting Time Zone, select Indonesia, and in the right-hand option customize your time zone,
- Once properly populated, Bizzi has done its work, and after connecting to the WordPress web, you can view wordpres visitors either through a browser or an application (Android/IOS) that you can install on your gadget.
For your information, you can register multiple websites for one Google Analytics account or one Google email account.
How to Connect Google Analytics to WordPress
After registering the web above, you will get a code that can be inserted in the WordPress template, either in the header or footer. We prefer to use a plugin in this case because with a plugin we can see the traffic directly through the WordPress dashboard or administrator page.
In addition, there are other settings required and you can read about them in Cool Free Plugin Google Analytics Traffic Viewer on WordPress Dashboard.
The Second Way to View WordPress Visitors with the WP-PostViews Plugin
How to see wordpress visitors that will be described in this article is very easy, even you who are beginners are able to use how to see wordpress visitors without encountering significant difficulties. The condition is, you only need to do it exactly as described. Here's how to see wordpress visitors:
- First, install the WP-PostViews Plugin.
- After you install the plugin, then activate it. Or after you download please go to Plugins => Add New, then you click the Upload tab, enter the WP-PostViews zip file that you just downloaded (no need to extract), then after uploading please activate it.
- After the WP-PostViews plugin has finished being placed inside your WordPress blog database, you must then place the code:
<?php if(function_exists(‘the_views’)) { the_views(); } ?>
in the single.php theme of your WordPress editor right before the code:
<?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
or similar.
- Next, click Update.
- To see your wordpress visitors, open one of your WordPress posts and look at the number around the post title.