Hello, I roughed out a proof-of-concept patch against the statistics module that makes it retain historical view count information. http://drupal.org/node/142668 Before this patch there's just a global per-node counter showing how many times each node has been viewed since the node was created. There's also a 1-day view counter that is reset every 24 hours, offering a rough estimate of how many times a story is viewed each day. With this patch the information is divided into 1 hour increments, allowing a site admin to see how popular each node has been in the past hour, the past few hours, the past week, at 3 pm a week ago Tuesday, the month before last, etc. The patch is sufficient for collecting the data, and the per-node counters still are displayed properly, but some time needs to be spent building queries for the top-nodes type page/block. (This is reflected by TODO notes in the patch) If merged, the next step would be visualizing this data using simple graphs, allowing you to plot the popularity of one or more nodes over time. (With these changes to the node_counter table, such graphing could be handled by a contrib module). At this point I'm gauging interest to see if 1) someone is willing to finish the patch, crafting the necessary SQL queries that are still missing and marked with TODO's, or 2) if it's worth my time to continue along in this direction. I'm also curious if people think 1 hour granularity is too fine, and it would be better left at 24 hour granularity. Feedback is best made in the issue rather than in response to this email. Cheers, -Jeremy