[EHPweb] web analytics

[Seth L Daugherty]

Hi,

I get the Analytics delays sometimes too (maybe 2 or 3 times a week, which isn't too bad). 

Chartbeat and most others on the page Jeremy linked seem to be focused too strongly on real-time information. It would be nice to be able to see real-time traffic spikes immediately after a big quake, but not at the expense of long term statistics. On the Chartbeat demo, I couldn't figure out how to get stats older than 30 days (or get stats on any given page). We're not a blog or an e-commerce site, so we don't really tweak our content to changes in traffic flow, say, after somebody links to us on digg. Our content usually only changes once a day, so we don't really need real-time stats. 

If we're going to use a different javascript-based analytics tool, we should look at Piwik. http://piwik.org/ It seems to provide all the features of Google Analytics plus more. Also, you install it on your own server, so we don't need to worry about a third party's site causing delays. Oh, and it's completely free.

Seth


On Jul 21, 2010, at 3:05 PM, Jeremy M Fee wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I sent an email to the ehpweb list, but didn't see it delivered.  Here is a link to the original message.
> 
> http://geohazards.usgs.gov/pipermail/ehpweb/2010-July/000535.html
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Jeremy
> 
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