Capturing data on users can be the most effective to modify a site, making it more user friendly, efficient, and a better return on investment.
Many 3rd party tools exist (eg. Google Analytics) to track users across a website. Drupal also has some tools for this purpose (eg. Statistics, Xstatistics).
This group exists to suggest ways to improve Drupal's internal analytics and ways to better integrate with other tools.
Please avoid making support requests such as "How do I get more people to buy my products?" or "How do I use Xstatistics?" However, please feel free to talk about your data if you think it helps the purpose of this group: improving user behavior analysis in Drupal.
Analysis of Drupal.org web logs
Hello, there is an effort to re-design Drupal.org. I would like to conduct some analysis of Drupal.org access logs to make quantitative recommendations.
I'd like some help in the following areas.
1) Analysis of web access logs to determine most popular pages.
2) Analysis of D.O. search queries.
3) Analysis of Inbound and Outbound linking.
If anyone has time to contribute to this analysis please join: Drupal.org re-design analysis. I'll approve subscribers who have the time to help.
Kieran
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Next generation of Drupal data collection and analysis tools, featuring extensibility
I recently began sketching out a module that will ultimately allow quick generation of custom reports and graphs based on arbitrary tables (Drupal or other). It's called Reports.
After beginning work on this module, I was contacted by several others who are working on related modules.
There are currently several modules available that augment Drupal's internal reports/statistics, however, none of them, AFAIK, were designed to be extensible.
I believe Drupal would benefit greatly from an extensible set of tools for collecting data and creating reports and graphs related to a specific Drupal website. These tools would be flexible and should be able to utilize arbitrary tables and perhaps new tables whose purpose is solely for reporting purposes (ie "cooked" data such as user sessions).
Read moreAnyone using something other than Google Analytics?
Hi, is everyone using Google Analytics? There must be other, tools. I'd like to know what you are using and what we should be running on Drupal.org.
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Open Source Analytics Tools
One fast way to boost Drupal's analysis tools will be to port other open source packages to Drupal.
I've ported much of the JavaScript reporting from PHPMyvisites, and I am interested to know what other open source analytics systems people have used, what they like about them, what they hate, and what we should bring to drupal.
I am especially interested in displaying information: graphs, charts, etc. Any good packages out there?
Read moreJavaScript vs. PHP
I think Drupal is well positioned to be a very useful analysis tool as it serves pages and tracks those serves directly. In effect, Drupal can log everything that an Apache log can hold.
Additionally, I would like to see Drupal capture information about users that cannot be determined from the HTTP request information. Some examples include user connection speed, screen resolution, plugins, etc. I believe this will have to be done in JavaScript.
I am starting this thread to collect ideas on what can be found in and tracked in PHP and what should be tracked via JavaScript.
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