There are plenty of advantages of having web analytics integrated in my CRM. One is that I get custom entities like “Web Pages” and “Web Page Views”, with raw data that look like this:

Another is that I can write an article like this one, with objectives like these:

• Provides readers with data on what other people are reading, a kind of quantitative reader’s guide to the Trick Bag. (I included links so you can go right to an article that seems interesting)
• Provides me with data on what people are reading, so I can write more of the stuff that is of the most interest.

I dropped the CoreMotives tracking script on the Trick Bag on March 12 of 2010. The blog itself launched in its present WordPress incarnation in February of 2009, so these are only a subset of the data. That being said, it’s almost 4 months and about 20,000 page views, so it’s a significant enough subset to be interesting. (to me, anyway!)

Most Popular Article Categories

In the Trick Bag’s sidebar, there’s a drop-down list labeled “Article Categories” that lets you view all of the articles in specific categories. Here are the counts, since March 12, of the page views of each category page.

Top Ten Articles Overall

Here are the top ten articles across all categories:

The top article – Dynamics CRM Form Script and Useful JavaScript Snippets – was posted a little over a month ago, and has well over double the views of most of the other top ten articles. The number ten article – Useful Form Scripts, Part 2 – has 335 views since it was posted on June 3.

OK: More articles on useful form scripts, coming up!

Top Ten Articles in the Top Two Categories

First, the top ten articles in the Workflow category:

Finally, the top ten articles in the Customization category: