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

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.)


On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 04:12, nan wich <nan_wich@bellsouth.net> 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 <unncola@gmail.com>
To: development@drupal.org
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 <hovercrafter@earthlink.net> wrote:
You don't have cacherouter on there or any other fast_pagecache implementing modules, do you?
Jamie Holly
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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 <brian@brianvuyk.com>
To: development@drupal.org
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.