Joomla Stat Counter..
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- Bradley Coots
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- Have any of you used a stat counter that keeps up with ALL kinds of crazy stuff like .. where they found your site from, where they are located... so forth and so on? If you have, please list a few you've used and liked.
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- Dan L
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- I always used to use Joomlastats, but after a few months the database gets so bloated it makes things like backups/restores nigh-on impossible. Plus it can't do anything for the sites performance. I pretty much just use Analytics now.
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- Bradley Coots
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- GollumX
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Don't use any Joomla extension for this... it will place a huge unnecessary load on your DB.
Go with Google analytics or getclicky, both of which have extensions that make them easier to incorporate with Joomla. The latter also has a widget you can put on your site to actually show some of the stats to the public.
EDIT: beaten by both of you by the time I finished typing this out lol - Say no to Internet Explorer 6.
twitter.com/mark_up
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- Bradley Coots
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Alright, so I did the google thing ... Analytivs... where do I need to place the code for my site... it says to put it on "every page" so I have to do this for every content item that I've made in the past couple months? O-M-G... please tell me I don't....
So there is no extension to download that'll do it ... dang... well that'll do it well anyway.
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- GollumX
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Just open up your template index.php file and plop in the code at the very bottom of the file.... immediately before the closing </body> tag.
Save, and re-upload.
I would stay away from the extensions made for adding Google code, because AFAIK, they put the code in the head of the page, and not in the footer as recommended by Google. - Say no to Internet Explorer 6.
twitter.com/mark_up
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- Chris S
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Alternatively you can search for the Analytics Module at
extensions.joomla.org
and place it in the Footer-Position of your Template (which is at the end of the page, as proposed).
Analytics will actually work from anywhere , however - there are 2 reasons for placing it at the Bottom: 1) to make sure, it only counts pageviews, that loaded the whole page and 2) to load all other stuff before it, just in case there should be a problem with the script (which could prevent other Javascripts from loading).
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- GollumX
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correct!
- Say no to Internet Explorer 6.
twitter.com/mark_up
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