Thunderbird seems to be over it's hissy fit :) On 30/07/14 09:32, Mike Griffiths wrote: > I've been in touch with Piwik, the short version is that their systems > aren't built to handle a site as busy as php.net <http://php.net>, so > I'm not sure the self-hosted version would work either.
Nice thing about open source ... you can play with it. Had some feedback that the newer builds are a bit heavier than my own branch. My customers are using it for tracking what a client viewed prior to submitting a contact form or email, but seeing just how much traffic is NOT from desktop browsers these days is illuminating! I'd trimmed facilities such as the 'commerce' stuff since the sites handle that themselves - can't understand why you would want to give sales information to a third party! That is the sort of private data that has no place in Googles hands? And there is no need to have that overhead for PHP sites. Really my main point was that it would be nice to use something PHP based, and an application with a heavy traffic load would also provide a real benchmark to test development work, and identify bottlenecks? As for reasons to want to use analytics. The main one is to get a profile of what browsers and devices are being used and to a lesser extent what areas of the world people are working. But what distorts the figures is that each mirror manages it's own traffic. Perhaps another reason for a home hosted facility where harvested data from each mirror can be merged to a central database? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL ----------------------------- Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk Rainbow Digital Media - http://rainbowdigitalmedia.co.uk -- PHP Webmaster List Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
