[wp-hackers] Fresh Meat: Open Web Analytics for WordPress

[Peter Adams]

That's where it's headed. There is a core API that enables access to  
modules and plugins. right now everything is stuffed into one base  
module. ;)
I'm hoping that the module system and API makes it easy for folks to  
create additional WP plugins that display stats in widgets for example.

-P-

On May 27, 2007, at 1:16 PM, Aaron Brazell wrote:

> Where it would be particularly useful is if all the core stuff was  
> moved into a separate library with api and then the plugin could be  
> uber-lightweight making api calls. Taking the next step, it could  
> sniff for memcaching, and use that for the api calls if memcached  
> exists.
>
> There's quite a bit of abstraction that could be done to truly make  
> it "open" but loviing the start. :)
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Matt <speedboxer at gmail.com>
> Date: Sun, 27 May 2007 12:58:51
> To:wp-hackers at lists.automattic.com
> Subject: Re: [wp-hackers] Fresh Meat: Open Web Analytics for WordPress
>
> It's a pretty good plugin. Although you gotta wonder why it's 5MBs,  
> while WP
> is only 3MBs...
>
> In the reporting section, you should put alt texts on the images.  
> Also, I
> think you forgot to end a tag or something, because on the  
> Dashboard, the
> normal WP Admin footer ends up in 1 of those fieldset's. It's also  
> a little
> bulky to go through the stats. It needs to be more lightweight and
> organised. It's also a little slow to.
>
> Otherwise, it looks pretty useful. :D
>
> On 5/26/07, Peter Adams <peter at oncefuture.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi all -
>>
>> Thanks to help from folks on this list, I've recently released the
>> Open Web Analytics (OWA) framework for WordPress. OWA is a generic
>> web analytics framework that comes with tight integration for
>> WordPress and MediaWiki (phpBB and Gallery2 are in the works).
>>
>> Installs as a regular WordPress plugin and has been tested under v2.0
>> -v2.2.  In you are interested, see http://www.openwebanalytics.com
>> for the code and install instructions.
>>
>> WordPress specific features include:
>>
>> * Track visitors by WordPress user name or e-mail address they use in
>> comments.
>> * Track all Wordpress Page Types (Posts, Pages, Authors, Archives,
>> Categories, etc.)
>> * Track the number of comments made by visit
>> * Reporting accessable via Admin Dashboard
>> * Track subscribers to RSS/Atom feeds
>> * Track multiple WordPress instances using the same OWA database
>>
>> Core Features:
>>
>> * Track Page views, visits, and unique visitors over time
>> * Track unique, new, repeat visitors over time
>> * Multiple Web Site Support - track any number of web sites and view
>> statistics in aggregate or by site
>> * Log events can be written to the database asynchronously.
>> * Click-streams - view the actual click-stream of each visitor
>> * Click Tracking - Track where exactly on a web page users are
>> clicking and view clicks by browser type
>> * Click Heat Maps - view a heat map of where users are clicking on
>> your web pages
>> * Google Maps - map your visitors on Google Maps
>> * Google Earth (KML) - view your visitors in Google Earth via a KML
>> file export
>> * RSS/ATOM subscription tracking - track unique feed readers, reader
>> types, and feed requests
>> * Visitor Aging - understand the age of your repeat visitors.
>> * Canned and Custom Time Periods - generate reports using pre-defined
>> reporting periods or custom date ranges
>> * Referring Page Analysis - View the title, anchor text, and
>> surrounding text of inbound links from referring web pages
>> * View visits by user agent
>> * Track entry and exit pages
>> * Track pages by custom page types
>>
>> There is a still _a lot_ left to be done here but hopefully this will
>> come in handy for those of you looking to add analytics to your
>> plugins or themes.
>>
>> Thanks in advance for any feedback or bug reports.
>>
>> -P-
>>
>> /**
>>    * Peter Adams  <peter at oncefuture.com>
>>    *
>>    * Blog >>   http://www.oncefuture.com/padams/weblog
>>    * Open Web Analytics - http://www.openwebanalytics.com
>>    */
>>
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