First, the customer has a dread fear of GA (I don't know why). Secondly, this is not to display a hit counter on the page, it's for various reports about the authors and their departments. Those reports can be filtered on a date range, and they would like to have a page view counter that can be filtered on that date range.
The data is in accesslog, so it has not yet been deleted, and it obvious that Drupal has seen these hits, so Apache has not deflected them. Nancy Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. -- Dr. Martin L. King, Jr. ________________________________ From: Tomáš Fülöpp On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 04:12, nan wich <[email protected]> wrote: No cdn. The data is there in accesslog, so it has not been deleted yet. They use Coremetrics. But they want (close to) real time data in the site itself. > >It must have something to do with the referrer. Accesslog records without a >referrer URL seem to count. > >Nancy > >Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. -- Dr. Martin L. King, Jr. > > > > > ________________________________ From: David Stoline <[email protected]> >To: [email protected] >Sent: Wed, November 17, 2010 8:32:45 PM > >Subject: Re: [development] Accesslog and Node_counter > > >3 thoughts. > 1. Are you using a CDN like akamai? > 2. I'm not sure if {node_counter} is tied to a cron run in > statistics.module. >If it is the 'discard access logs older than' might be the cause of your >problem. > 3. Why not use Google Analytics or webalizer or similar? > > >On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 8:05 PM, Jamie Holly <[email protected]> wrote: > >You don't have cacherouter on there or any other fast_pagecache implementing >modules, do you? >>Jamie Holly http://www.intoxination.net http://www.hollyit.net >> >>On 11/17/2010 7:53 PM, nan wich wrote: >>No, no Boost. We do have eAccelerator, but that shouldn't do anything to >>Apache. >>Statistics are very important to the Marketing team that are paying for this. >>> >>>Nancy >>> >>>Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. -- Dr. Martin L. King, >>Jr. >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> ________________________________ From: Brian Vuyk <[email protected]> >>>To: [email protected] >>>Sent: Wed, November 17, 2010 5:22:26 PM >>>Subject: Re: [development] Accesslog and Node_counter >>> >>>Are you possibly using boost or another caching function which avoids Apache >>>for >>>some requests? >>> >>>On 10-11-17 03:51 PM, nan wich wrote: >>>I was just browsing the Accesslog and saw over 100,000 hits on node/1000 >>>from >>>Wikipedia, but the node_counter table shows less than 1,000 views total. Why >>>do >>>the referrals from Wikipedia not count? >>>> >>>>I ask because we are increasingly needing to get view counts per day, not >>>>just >>>>total. I can easily add a hook_nodeapi('view') to count from today, but >>>>wanted >>>>to get historical counts as well. >>>> >>>>Nancy >>>> >>>>Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. -- Dr. Martin L. >>>>King, >>>Jr. >> > You could try http://drupal.org/project/google_analytics_counter -- but of course, that will by definition give you smaller page view counts (only what Google Analytics records, i.e. no bot accesses etc.)
