How can we count anonymous users using the counter in the top right corner of admin menu? in 10.04 an 1.2 ? Is it possible?

Posted by AntiNSA on January 29, 2011 at 7:20am

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Not Possible

Posted by joshk on February 1, 2011 at 8:29pm

Because anonymous users are getting pages from Varnish (not from Drupal directly) it is not possible for Drupal to accurately track the numbers of anonymous users.

You could investigate other javascript-based tools (e.g. chartbeat, etc) that provide live anonymous user data. Google Analytics will also give you data after the fact.

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ga_importer ftw

Posted by greggles on February 1, 2011 at 10:59pm

There's a nice and relatively new module called ga_importer that will even pull in the GA data to your site so you get good performance for anonymous and local GA data for sorting views and the like

http://drupal.org/project/ga_importer

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Also Google Analytics Counter

Posted by vacilando on February 16, 2011 at 6:50pm

Also Google Analytics Counter was created for the same reason. Uses AJAX to bypass cache and also writes to the Drupal's node_counter table. See http://drupal.org/project/google_analytics_counter

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Writing to node_counter is

Posted by greggles on February 16, 2011 at 8:22pm

Writing to node_counter is nice, but in my opinion it's not enough.

GA tracks so much more than "visits" and node_counter really only cares about visits. That's why I added the ability in ga_importer to track bounces, time on page, and visits in addition to pageviews.

node_counter also cares about two timeframes: today and this month. But sites care about so much more. That's why ga_importer now keeps track of the stats per day and can therefore do queries showing the data over a very long time.

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