The guys over at woopra have been working hard and have released version 1.2 of their wordpress-plugin, which allows the administrator to see general statistics in the dashboard. Check out the new features:

• Immediate access to analytics, traffic statistics and user visits from within the standard WordPress interface.
• Zero footprint on the local WordPress server speeds up your Web page loads without cluttering your database.
• Users can customize the statistics interface with simple CSS modifications.
• Users can modify the WordPress Plugin and contribute back to the community with changes and new ways to display the data.
• It’s light, Ajax enabled, and sexy!

Yes it is! I’ve written more in the German translation, so if you speak German, you should definitely check out the translation of this article (see below). Also, have a look at the wordpress-plugin wp-stattraq, which i have taken over and which saves it’s statistics-data in the wordpress-database directly..