Statistics enhancement. [#91509]

I picked ADMINISTRATION as the project. Not sure if it really has to do with STATISTICS FILTERING or STATISTICS TRENDS and there is not a project for NODE.COUNTER.

Seems to me that based on threads like this one, http://drupal.org/node/67974, there should be some small enhancements to the Home>administer>logs page. and or the Home>administer>settings statistics page.

1) A button to reset the stats (truncate the access_log) and to reset the counters (truncate node_counter).
2) A built in option in the statistics.module that can be controlled by a setting on the Home>administer>logs page that allows the administrator the option of excluding user=1 from incrementing any type of logging or statistics count.
3) Gravy on this would be a way to enter a few IP ranges that can also be excluded from incrementing any statistics and logging.

I am aware of the distinction of logging and tracking statistics, and of incrementing based on cache or by views, but these are all irrelevent to this feature request. It is still a very common need to at least make sure the webmaster is not racking up huge counts that others who see the stats will misinterpret.

Even a better link to help, or the explanation of manually truncating as part of the admin page instructions would be an improvement.

Thanks.

Comments

Comment #1

Wolfflow commented 13 May 2008 at 03:52

Subscribe. Really needed for the reasons listed above. Agree fully.

Comment #2

thomasmurphy commented 13 May 2008 at 04:06

mmmm, subscribing

Comment #3

dreed47 commented 13 May 2008 at 04:59

Project:	Administration	» Drupal core
Version:	master	» 6.2
Component:	Code	» statistics.module

Comment #4

thomas23@drupal.org commented 1 June 2008 at 23:56

Agreed! I was just searching for a way to reset drupals statistics before site lauch.

I would alter your third feature, TechMosaic, to not only exclude user/1 but also (if you wish) all or any user group/role.

To give an example: On a band's site (or other group's, for that matter) it's not really the band member's hits and actions you want to track but those of visitors.

Thanks in advance!

Comment #5

gpk commented 2 June 2008 at 22:11

No new features will go into 6.x - only 7.x.

This module http://drupal.org/node/18013 maybe did some of what you are after, but only available for 4.7.x (though a patch to update to 5.x does exist).

The lack of interest there suggests this might not have enough support to make it into core even in 7.x.

>reset drupals statistics before site lauch.
Try running the following query from phpMyAdmin or MySQL command line:
TRUNCATE TABLE accesslog;

I think you could do the same with table node_counter to clear node access statistics.