Site statistics/hits/counters/whos online

[powerzone]

I have noticed that when I view my own store and the different pages that by me accessing this whether it be via the admin section/whos online etc that my own access gets added to the statitics in the admin section and counters of product viewed. Is there anyway to get these sections to exclude any of my own visits (ie. to exclude my own IP address from the reports?)? As I am trying to gauge the real number of hits to my store and each of my products.

[Ajeh]

You would need to re-write the whos_online and then you would need to change the code everytime your IP Address changes ...

[powerzone]

Thanks Linda,

It sounds like a difficult job rewriting the whos_online. If I attempted to do this can you suggest what I need to input and whereabouts in the code this would go, as I am not to sure about this.

Your help will be much appreciated.

Regards

Steve

[Ajeh]

Have you considered looking into the User Tracking add-on? This might give you somehthing more meaningful to look at in regard to your customer activity ...

[powerzone]

Linda , Please excuse my ignorance but where do I find the "User Tracking add-on" section? In the support forum, FAQs or the cart itself?

thanks

Steve

[Ajeh]

Have to do a search for it ...

Right now the downloads are down while we are finishing the upgrade, but I thought there was a link to this on the User Tracking thread ...

[jwaller]

This question is along the same line....

I'd like to NOT have my access to the shopping cart skew my numbers for product views. I tried dropping an IP address check into the counters.php but that didn't produce the results I was hoping.

The code I have is:
$ip_test = substr($_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'],0,7);
if ($ip_test <> '192.168') {
// do something here...
// or skip code...
}

This works to keep myvisites from registering admin/local access to the pages for hit counts.

Anything that would be along these lines for Zen?

[CJPinder]

I'd like to NOT have my access to the shopping cart skew my numbers for product views. I tried dropping an IP address check into the counters.php but that didn't produce the results I was hoping.

You'll need to modify /includes/modules/pages/product_info/main_template_vars.php and put an if() statement around the bit that says....

$sql = "update " . TABLE_PRODUCTS_DESCRIPTION . "
        set        products_viewed = products_viewed+1
        where      products_id = '" . (int)$_GET['products_id'] . "'
        and        language_id = '" . (int)$_SESSION['languages_id'] . "'";

$res = $db->Execute($sql); 

If you use other product types then you will need to do the same for the other product_info pages as well.
Note that the product view stats are not very accurate so be careful basing decisions on them.

Regards,
Christian.

[jwaller]

Much thanks!

Got the issue handled and all happyness now...

Regards,

Jon

[co13]

hi guys, where can i add a code from google analitycs or sitemeter.com ?
in which fiel should i write that code? index.php, index.html ?

please explain - wish to have a very good site statistic