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1/2/2008 11:40:58 PM
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Monitor Traffic of site

Is there a way to monitor the traffic of my site?  I know about the existing statistics module that shows visitors & members. However i just wanted to see if it was possible to check out the averages of daily hits, or even regional info. I'm trying to see what kind of activity happens and when, why, who...you know, all that good stuff.

thanks in advance,

chris

1/3/2008 7:38:47 AM
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Re: Monitor Traffic of site

Hi Chris,

Over the years I've tried many web log analysis tools both commercial and free and in my opinion the best thing available now is the free Google Analytics service. You just add a script they provide to the bottom of your skin just before the closing body tag and it starts capturing, the next day you can start seeing data in the reports they provide. Its really awesome. Microsoft is coming out with a similar poduct called Project Gatineau but it is currently invitation only. I requested an invite several months back and haven't heard from them yet but google analytics is available today.

Other tools do log analysis whereas google tracks actual pages as they are viewed. I also download my log files and and process them with a free tool, awstats, but I find it exaggerates traffic due to all the bot and crawler traffic.

Todd Lewis has also done some work using Webalizer. He has a technique for parsing the logs from a multi site mojoportal installation so you can see traffic reports of the individual sites. He started some documentation on this here: http://www.mojoportal.com/multisiteweblogtricks.aspx

Of course google analytics also works fine for multi site installations since the script goes in a site specific skin.

Hope it helps,

Joe

2/1/2008 6:06:09 AM
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Kenneth Haugland

Re: Monitor Traffic of site

I have problems adding the analytics code to my website.

I modify the layout.Master for the techmania skin but the script is not added to the page. Tried also to add a <h5>Test</h5> in the body but that do not show either. It is the correct skin because it stops at a breakpoint i made in the Page_Load method.

Any ideas what I do wrong?

Regards

Kenneth

2/1/2008 6:36:10 AM
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Re: Monitor Traffic of site

My best guess is you are editing the wrong copy of the skin. The ones under Data/skins are a library of skins used only when new sites are created. The library is copied to the new site's sub folder.

The skins used by a site are located under Data/Sites/[SiteID]/skins, so in a typical installation to add the google analytics script to the techmania skin you need to edit the /Data/Sites/1/skins/techmania/layout.master file

Hope it helps,

Joe

2/1/2008 7:27:03 AM
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Kenneth Haugland

Re: Monitor Traffic of site

 

Thank you for the quick answer. That was indeed the problem.

MojoPortal looks great btw.

Regards

Kenneth

 

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