The Google Analytics for WordPress plugin automatically tracks and segments all outbound links from within posts, comment author links, links within comments, blogroll links and downloads. It also allows you to track AdSense clicks, add extra search engines, track image search queries and it will even work together with Urchin.

Joost, if you read this post, I would like to see the following features that’ll help in reducing DNS look-up and will save some bandwidth.

1. Local caching of ga.js for fast loading of pages.
2. Compression of the local javascript files using mod_gzip.