hit counters for incubating web sites
Various posts in the past have expressed interest in collecting statistics on usage, or downloads. Previous replies have pointed out that counting downloads is inaccurate, because Apache licensed components can be redistributed by others, and the Apache mirroring system means that most downloads occur from non-Apache machines. We would like to get some statistical information about downloads, and are thinking that counting clicks on the download button(s) would be a good way (it would avoid the problem of missing mirroring). Although not perfect (it would miss repackaging/redistribution, and other sites which link to a download page other than our own), we think it would be somewhat useful, at least as a lower bound of interest. Vadim Gritsenko has a stats site on people.a.o, looking at downloads by extracting data from web server logs. He has said, however, that he won't track individual incubator projects, just TLP. See http://people.apache.org/~vgritsenko/stats/index.html and http://people.apache.org/~vgritsenko/faq.html . Most of the hit counters out there seem to be snippets of html you add to your web page, which go off to someone else's server, where the counting happens. Is there a service running on an apache server (e.g., people.a.o), which we can use for hit-counting? If so, can someone post the html needed to use it? -Marshall - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: hit counters for incubating web sites
Ah, good question (don't have the answer). Personally, I'd love to see Apache.org stats via something like Google Analytics, but perhaps this can be a per-project thing. Otis -- Sematext -- http://sematext.com/ -- Lucene - Solr - Nutch - Original Message From: Marshall Schor [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: general@incubator.apache.org Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2008 11:27:01 AM Subject: hit counters for incubating web sites Various posts in the past have expressed interest in collecting statistics on usage, or downloads. Previous replies have pointed out that counting downloads is inaccurate, because Apache licensed components can be redistributed by others, and the Apache mirroring system means that most downloads occur from non-Apache machines. We would like to get some statistical information about downloads, and are thinking that counting clicks on the download button(s) would be a good way (it would avoid the problem of missing mirroring). Although not perfect (it would miss repackaging/redistribution, and other sites which link to a download page other than our own), we think it would be somewhat useful, at least as a lower bound of interest. Vadim Gritsenko has a stats site on people.a.o, looking at downloads by extracting data from web server logs. He has said, however, that he won't track individual incubator projects, just TLP. See http://people.apache.org/~vgritsenko/stats/index.html and http://people.apache.org/~vgritsenko/faq.html . Most of the hit counters out there seem to be snippets of html you add to your web page, which go off to someone else's server, where the counting happens. Is there a service running on an apache server (e.g., people.a.o), which we can use for hit-counting? If so, can someone post the html needed to use it? -Marshall - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: hit counters for incubating web sites
I'm also very interested in this subject. Untill now I was parsing the apache http logs for the download statistics information for Incubator projects, but now that the distributions are starting to get mirrored, I guess I'll need to find a new way. Maybe Vadim Gritsenko would track incubator projects, now that they are all working the same way as the TLP ? Or if the problem is free cycles, I'm willing to give some help here to get things done for Incubator projects as well. On Jan 15, 2008 8:27 AM, Marshall Schor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Various posts in the past have expressed interest in collecting statistics on usage, or downloads. Previous replies have pointed out that counting downloads is inaccurate, because Apache licensed components can be redistributed by others, and the Apache mirroring system means that most downloads occur from non-Apache machines. We would like to get some statistical information about downloads, and are thinking that counting clicks on the download button(s) would be a good way (it would avoid the problem of missing mirroring). Although not perfect (it would miss repackaging/redistribution, and other sites which link to a download page other than our own), we think it would be somewhat useful, at least as a lower bound of interest. Vadim Gritsenko has a stats site on people.a.o, looking at downloads by extracting data from web server logs. He has said, however, that he won't track individual incubator projects, just TLP. See http://people.apache.org/~vgritsenko/stats/index.html and http://people.apache.org/~vgritsenko/faq.html . Most of the hit counters out there seem to be snippets of html you add to your web page, which go off to someone else's server, where the counting happens. Is there a service running on an apache server (e.g., people.a.o), which we can use for hit-counting? If so, can someone post the html needed to use it? -Marshall - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Luciano Resende Apache Tuscany Committer http://people.apache.org/~lresende http://lresende.blogspot.com/ - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
