daily visits addon <-- how does it register visits

[abel]

how exactly does the daily visits addon determine whats a new visit. it doesnt seem to be like an old hit couter where it increases by one everytime u reload the page etc...

does it log by IP addresses? in other words, does it only register visits if from different IP's

im just curious is all.. trying to get a better understanding of what it really means etc etc..

thanks

[pixelpunk]

I do it in a, ehm, different way.

Visitors are counted once every hour. So, if a visitor re-visits you after 3 hours he is counted as a new visitor.

So the daily visits just grabs every entry in the database for the specific date, and don't need them to be unique in any way.

// punk

Any idea to make the visitor counting better is welcome, without flocking the database of course with pagehits or something.

[abel]

also is this something thats stored somewhere or is it cleared out everyday?

just curious to see what my heaviest traffic day is etc.

[blinking8s+]

I do think pp stats would be a nice addition, breakdown of the traffic. Wouldnt be hard to work up at all, just making it graphically pleasing my take a little effort.

[Anonymous]

well i saw that all of the visitor info is stored in a database and then i exported it out to an Excel spreadsheet.

now only if i were excel saavy i could filter out the entries by each given date and then get a total per day etc etc...

ill have to look into it later on...

[abel]

well i thought i was logged in when i made that post but i guess not.. hehe

[mark]

how would i change it to register it every 6 hours instead of every 1 hour?
I think every 1 hour is too much....

I see in the code that its 60*60.....what would i change that to?

Would it just be 360*360 or would it be 60*360?

Originally Posted by mark

I see in the code that its 60*60.....what would i change that to?

Would it just be 360*360 or would it be 60*360?

Please try to find out what this 60*60 means!
One minute = 60 seconds
One hour = 60 minutes
6 hours = ?????

as these intervals are measured in seconds, what would it be?

I think you find the answer yourself :lol:

[mark]

Ok, then i guess "time()" is in seconds?

I'll change it to be 60*360 then...to get 21600 seconds..

Thanks

[japanwindow]

At least I think so. My "daily average" started around 1100 in the morning and climbed to almost 1400 by the afternoon. And then I removed it because it obviously wasn't working. (It wasn't because I was having lots of hits today, because my daily hits is still at 807 as of now.)

Any ideas? (See my link below)