Like Akismet, this is a plugin brought to you by Automattic, the company founded by Matt Mullenweg who is the creator of WordPress. The purpose of this plugin is to provide you real time statistics about your blog traffic, your most popular posts, and your referrers. While it is not as powerful as a dedicated solution such as Google Analytics, WordPress.com Stats is a nice solution to watch how your traffic is going real time.
The WordPress.com Stats plugin can be downloaded here: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/stats/.
To install it, follow the instructions about installing plugins on page 1.
This plugin requires the use of an API key.
Go to www.wordpress.com and create an account.
Login to your wordpress.com dashboard and select Edit Profile on the drop-down list.
Your API key is listed here, just below the Profile and above the Personal Options title.
Report the API key to WordPress.com Stats. The plugin...