Hi David,
I've been looking through the forum as I'm sure this has been asked before, and a similar mod must already exist...
but is there an mod for displaying and recording advanced visitor statistics/analytics in the admin area?
In the vanilla install of PT there is just a figure for the number of items in the feed, and number of total clicks.
Ideally I'd like to have a database that records (for every jump click) a visitors IP, time of visit, length on site, original search query, visitor path etc. (all that good stuff!)
I'm assuming this has already been done in the past... if so, would you be kind enough to point me in the direction of the thread?
I've already incorpoated the topsearches.php mod - but I'd like to pull all of this data into my admin area.
I currently record top searches in the last 24 hours, this week, this month, this year (and each resets via a crontask at the end of every day/week/month/year)..
Is there an easier way that the stats can be catalogued daily, so at midnight they are stored away into their own day in the stats database.. (so all stats for the past 24 hours go into a database under 10-Aug-2009) - which will hopefully enable me to manipulate the data more (and understand my visitors better)?
In addition to simply counting the number of times a search term is looked-up, can I record the person searching's IP,entrance page etc.
Finally, I have a top-products mod - which I think records the number of times a product's buy button (jumpclick) is clicked ... can I also record the number of times a product.php page is viewed? (and again, as above I'd love to be able to record as much data about my visitor as possible)
What's the best way to incorporate all of this? I'm still learning PHP but am keen to build a nice admin/stats backend for myself - can you offer any advice?
thanks David!
