Per-Page Charts in PathStats 1.2

posted June 20th 2005 at 0216 EDT in All, Articles, CSS, PHP, PathStats

Grab it while it’s hot. PathStats 1.2 is available.

Two big changes. 1) Log Fead Readers (the people, not the applications), and 2) Chart of per-page hits.

The first item (logging feed readers) is discussed in my post titled Tracking FeedReaders with ShortStat.

The second item was developed after I realized just logging a hit when someone viewed my feed wasn’t good enough. I wanted to be able to see average traffic for that specific page over time. Cue Page Charts the new addition for version 1.2.

It’s an easy way to see 160 day trends in page usage both sitewide, and for a speicific page (though only the top hitters are listed in the dropdown). You will also notice that the chart is generated via HTML and some styling because I didn’t want to introduce the dependancies needed to generate a “real” image. The per-page chart utelizes AJAX technology via Mike West’s DataRequestor object to make the interface nice and snazzy.

You can link to a specific chart by passing some query string info like such: path.php?res=/url/to/chart

4 Responses

  1. #1 jehiah
    4 years, 8 months ago

    oops, I found a few problems after I released 1.2.

    • Moving Average doesn’t work in IE or Safari (currently disabled)
    • Chart is caclulated based on current time, not end of the day
    • Chart refresh when you select a new page isn’t quite working right in IE (’Load Chart’ button workaround)

    I’ll be working on these and post an update when they are all solved. Guess I should have waited to test on IE before posting 1.2.

  2. #2 DJ Webb
    4 years, 8 months ago

    I’m not sure if this is a bug with PathStat or something else but when I click the overview link on the path.php page the link it goes to is http://photography-of-rock.com/shortstat/index.php which is correct, however my browser takes me to http://photography-of-rock.com/index.php. odd?

  3. #3 jehiah
    4 years, 8 months ago

    ahha, that is a problem I had as well and forgot about it.

    There is a line of code at the top of the index.php which checks for a referrer. It only lets you pull up the page when you type it in your browser directly.

    If you comment out that line (i’ll find the line number later) it should work fine.

  4. #4 Chuck Reynolds
    4 years, 8 months ago

    This is a great little add in! Thanks for the job well done.