This news is a bit old, infact it was published over a week ago on the official wordpress.com blog. It has over 700 diggs already.  One of the main features of the free wordpress.com blog is the ” Blog Stats”.  It tells you the number of visitors, referrers, the most popular posts, search engine terms as well as clicks from your blog to other sites. The way the stats are presented is one of its plus points too- very few people will have problems in understanding it.

If there is one thing which fascinates all bloggers irrespective of their age in blogosphere, it is their attraction towards stats. There are plenty of stats plugins available, although this one will certainly prove to be one of the more popular ones.

You need to have a wordpress.com API key to activate this plugin. If you have Akismet installed already, chances are that you would have the key. If you don’t, headup to wordpress.com and sign up for a free account and a key which has a host of privileges attached to it.

Here is the plugin