Posted by bjc5070 on January 25, 2011 at 10:58pm
does anyone know of a good module or way of keeping stats on a drupal site? I researched this a few months ago and there didnt seem to be any good modules. I dont need anything really advanced, just some user friendly way to log stats and have them display in a table like set up.
any help would be greatly appreciated.
thanks,
Brendan
GO STEELERS!
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Stat modules
What type of stats are you looking for?
Do you know about the Drupal Modules website? Try this search:
http://drupalmodules.com/module-finder?title=stat
For a table, you might want to make sure the module has Views integration then you can make your own table.
=David
Usage stats?
AWStats http://awstats.sourceforge.net/ is a free, GPL-licensed system that works nicely if you have access to the shell (to install) and the (Apache) log files.
The Drupal Google Analytics http://drupal.org/project/google_analytics works with (you guessed it) Google Analytics to provide deep information.
Hope this helps.
Counter maybe
To second Fen's comment, we set up all of our client websites to use Google Analytics and people seem to be pretty happy with the information provided and I recommend it in general.
Also, we had a client not too long ago wanted a simple hit counter on their homepage (I know, how quaint..) and I tried out the Counter module and just recall it provided way too much information for my needs so I never really dug into it. Might be what you are looking for though.
http://drupal.org/project/counter
Best of luck!
Counter Maybe
Thanks - We already use Google Analytics on all pur sites but thats not the issue. We are hosting and I need to know who is using what in shared resources so that if one site is a bandwidth hog, they can be charged extra. Google Analytics will give me a general idea of traffic but does not handle the usage stats I need as a host. As long as the sites are aliased on the server - all stats are rolled together into one.
bandwidth and other hogs
Knowing how many hits a site gets is not enough. Performance measuring is a science (sometimes a black art) and involves to varying degrees:
* hits per page
* bytes transferred per page
* number of objects per page (HTTP requests)
* complex objects (javascript, flash, etc.)
* database configuration
* cacheing
...and probably 20 other items I'm forgetting to list.
AWStats will handle the first three of those and may be what you're looking for, but it's difficult to glean anything more than generalities from such data.
im sorry i was not clear in
im sorry i was not clear in my meaning. I need to log stats for a team. such as player stats. any help would be greatly appreciated.
CCK and Views
Seems like this would be a job for CCK and Views.
In Drupal 7 you could just set up a content type called Player then add fields for all of the stats you want to include.
Then you can set up a View which displays the stats you would like to compare.
sports stats
I echo David's comments. I have built quite a few sports team sites and it is easy to display statistics with CCK and Views.
Bruce Letterle
Creative Web Technologies
www.creativewebtech.com