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John Smith	Friday 18 September 2009 1:35:14 am Hi Guys, Hope someone can help me. I got a wired sort of requirement in which I want some sort of facility to track individual usage of the site (time spent) as well as which sections of the site are being used most and least often. Is it possible or not? Looking forward to hear from experts soon. Cheers,
Carlos Revillo	Friday 18 September 2009 1:46:06 am Quick way, i think you can add some code to your pagelayout in which you can save this information yo may need. but, if you use database for the tracking, you will add a lit overhead to the server, because you will need to do this queries anytime a user visits a page. More elaborated way, could be this interesting extension / project http://projects.ez.no/ezgoogleanalytics You will let google tracks the visits and the script will fetch data from google. then, if you map those entries to your sections and so on, you could do the job. Last one, if you don't want google, could be using this interesting open source project called piwik. [1]. I'm not an expert on it, but it provides some documentation so you custom how the data are stored at the piwik database and so doing the job or getting the results a bit easier. But you will probably need your own extension for that. [1] http://www.piwik.org
John Smith	Friday 18 September 2009 2:20:41 am Cheers Carlos for you swift reply. Much appreciated. I agree with you not to use database for tracking as it will increase the overhead. Other both options seems interesting... I found a link on piwik forums where somebody is trying to achieve the same. http://forum.piwik.org/index.php?showtopic=1413 Anybody in the community achieved this? Please let me know.

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John Smith

Friday 18 September 2009 1:35:14 am

Hi Guys,

Hope someone can help me.

I got a wired sort of requirement in which I want some sort of facility to track individual usage of the site (time spent) as well as which sections of the site are being used most and least often.

Is it possible or not?

Looking forward to hear from experts soon.

Cheers,

Carlos Revillo

Friday 18 September 2009 1:46:06 am

Quick way, i think you can add some code to your pagelayout in which you can save this information yo may need. but, if you use database for the tracking, you will add a lit overhead to the server, because you will need to do this queries anytime a user visits a page.

More elaborated way, could be this interesting extension / project
http://projects.ez.no/ezgoogleanalytics

You will let google tracks the visits and the script will fetch data from google. then, if you map those entries to your sections and so on, you could do the job.

Last one, if you don't want google, could be using this interesting open source project called piwik. [1]. I'm not an expert on it, but it provides some documentation so you custom how the data are stored at the piwik database and so doing the job or getting the results a bit easier. But you will probably need your own extension for that.

[1] http://www.piwik.org

John Smith

Friday 18 September 2009 2:20:41 am

Cheers Carlos for you swift reply. Much appreciated.

I agree with you not to use database for tracking as it will increase the overhead.

Other both options seems interesting...

I found a link on piwik forums where somebody is trying to achieve the same.

http://forum.piwik.org/index.php?showtopic=1413

Anybody in the community achieved this? Please let me know.

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