Hi,
Are you talking about the enhanced search logger?
That tracks searches/keywords per day, and the database can be picked for data.
I've thought about enhancing the logging, for stats, such that any action that alters/views the database will generate a log entry. Trouble is, raw logs get messy, and abreviated logs get intensive or start to have to chose what data they pick.
For instance, log-ons per day. You could keep one log entry for each logon, or you could keep one log record for _every_ logon for that calendar day, incrementing the count by one. You could also keep a record such as username/date/count/datetime to track what usernames logged on on each date, the number of times they logged on, and their last logon for that date. That would get _huge_
What data do you want to see collected, and how? What is the most useful data set?
Personally, I'm still waiting for Community, and central remote logons so I can merge all my sites into 3 main communities, and at that point,statistics become _important_. Each program, like Links and Forum need to have individual stats, and audit trails, but most importantly are overall stats from the "community" as to what users are most active, least active (why?), where they are coming from, what they are doing, what they are looking for, what they actually find, etc.
"demographics" are less important, in the traditional sense. I don't care where they live, or how many kids they have, etc. I am more interested in what they are actually doing -- or not doing -- on the sites.
You may disagree... or your site may depend on demographic profiling.
PS: anything I release from this point on is "free" GPL type programming, so anyone who is also releasing anything "free" to the community, and wants to share efforts, and not duplicate the wheel, the help would be much appreciated by me, and everyone else :) It will mean more programs sooner, and better, for everyone. Actually, "good" code should eventually be incorporated into Links, so it doesn't have to run as a "plugin" and becomes "core" code. It will make life easier and more pleasant for everyone :) [[ although, programs like Adobe Photoshop are virtually _all_ plugins.... so maybe keeping features as plugins, but making better plugin code is the answer?? ]]
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Are you talking about the enhanced search logger?
That tracks searches/keywords per day, and the database can be picked for data.
I've thought about enhancing the logging, for stats, such that any action that alters/views the database will generate a log entry. Trouble is, raw logs get messy, and abreviated logs get intensive or start to have to chose what data they pick.
For instance, log-ons per day. You could keep one log entry for each logon, or you could keep one log record for _every_ logon for that calendar day, incrementing the count by one. You could also keep a record such as username/date/count/datetime to track what usernames logged on on each date, the number of times they logged on, and their last logon for that date. That would get _huge_
What data do you want to see collected, and how? What is the most useful data set?
Personally, I'm still waiting for Community, and central remote logons so I can merge all my sites into 3 main communities, and at that point,statistics become _important_. Each program, like Links and Forum need to have individual stats, and audit trails, but most importantly are overall stats from the "community" as to what users are most active, least active (why?), where they are coming from, what they are doing, what they are looking for, what they actually find, etc.
"demographics" are less important, in the traditional sense. I don't care where they live, or how many kids they have, etc. I am more interested in what they are actually doing -- or not doing -- on the sites.
You may disagree... or your site may depend on demographic profiling.
PS: anything I release from this point on is "free" GPL type programming, so anyone who is also releasing anything "free" to the community, and wants to share efforts, and not duplicate the wheel, the help would be much appreciated by me, and everyone else :) It will mean more programs sooner, and better, for everyone. Actually, "good" code should eventually be incorporated into Links, so it doesn't have to run as a "plugin" and becomes "core" code. It will make life easier and more pleasant for everyone :) [[ although, programs like Adobe Photoshop are virtually _all_ plugins.... so maybe keeping features as plugins, but making better plugin code is the answer?? ]]
PUGDOG� Enterprises, Inc.
The best way to contact me is to NOT use Email.
Please leave a PM here.
