My First Take on WordPress

So I have extra time while I'm waiting to see results from my efforts to attract visitors to this blog. One of the suggestions I came across early on was to diversify. It doesn't take a ton of time each day to update a blog. At least not yet. I decided to try something totally different - but before I get into what - I decided to try WordPress.

WordPress.com was easy to sign up for and gave me a free blog. I wanted to post videos as part of my new blog and WordPress lets me do that. (I'm not sure if I can do that on Blogger - I haven't tried yet.) It was easy to post my first message and it was easy to include a video from YouTube. However I find the user interface for managing and customizing my blog to be substantially less intuitive than Blogger. Maybe I will learn the interface and there will be extra features making it worth the extra effort - but so far I can't seem to add the necessary tracking code so I can analyze the site using Google Analytics. Maybe it's the learning curve, but it was really easy for me to figure it out with Blogger.

Can I use AdSense with WordPress? I still haven't figured that out. There must be a way, but again - it was really easy to figure out with Blogger.

Last beef. When I try to open my WordPress blog it seems really slow to load. Was it a fluke? Or does it make sense that WordPress doesn't have the infrastructure to provide as fast a loading time as Blogger?

I will tough it out with WordPress for a little longer but I'm already leaning towards learning how to post a video using Blogger.