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Project:
Xstatistics
Version:
master
Component:
User interface
Priority:
Normal
Category:
Feature request
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Created:
3 Mar 2006 at 06:11 UTC
Updated:
23 Jun 2007 at 16:01 UTC
I think the Xstatistics module is really great and can't for the life of me figure out how it hasn't been done before. I have to manage serveral Drupal sites and to have the Xstatistics output in a series of RSS feeds would be fantastic. That would allow me to subscribe to the feeds in a single web interface and see the information on all sites in one place. Maybe this can already be done. Thanks for creating this Ber.
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Comment #1
Bèr Kessels commentedRSS has a big problem with authentication. AFAIKs Drupal RSS cannot be limited to a certain user. And neither can most RSS readers deal with login issues, other then the default httpauth.
Unless you know a way around this, I will have to mark this wontfix, because the technology is not yet ready for this.
Bèr
Comment #2
jsbthree commentedI agree with your point regarding login. The RSS statistics module makes use of a token generated by the Google Maps API I believe. I personally don't know if this is secure or not so I wouldn't use it on sensitive data.
But this is my point. I'm only interested in gaining insight into information that would be okay for anyone to see. Privacy is not my goal and security is not a concern as I just want some very basic Drupal generated stats on multiple domains to facilitate mass management. Xstatistics is a great start. Right now for instance to gain much of this basic (and usually not sensitive) info I have to go to each domain and login or create a module for reading database tables across the network.
I want this info on many sites (e.g. 25 to 50)that may be located on many different servers to be on one or two pages for simple viewing and comparison as much as anything. Its not useful to have the same info scattered all over the place.
So security isn't a concern if you look at this information I"m talking about. Here is an example of xstatistics readout from a low traffic site. I just don't see anything here that is sensitive for my kind of usage. I recognize this isn't a universal sentiment. I would contend however that certain types of information would be sensitive depending on the type of data the site is publishing and other types would not be sensitive. But I can't really think that through. Some sites will possibly care about parts of this and not others. If an admin would rather not have that total amount of nodes known for instance they probably don't care about the number of hits or page views.
I would just say make if available and let the admin decide what to block. In instances of many Drupal sites having to be managed by a relatively few people this information that could be invaluable if offered over RSS for comparative viewing -- i.e. comparing against other similarly concerned sites.
Xstatistics readout would be useful to me if available by RSS AND without any security at all -- i.e. no login required.
Here is what we're talking about.
Total amount of nodes 1480
Total amount of published nodes 1479
Total amount of nodes in the queue 2
Total amount of comments 0
Total amount of users 43
Total amount of external referrers today 17
Total amount of internal referrers today 10
Total amount of viewed nodes today 97
Total amount of viewed nodes all time 4691
Total amount of viewed pages today 1419
Total amount of hits today 1419
People subscribed to your RSS feed 156
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Comment #3
Bèr Kessels commentedComment #4
ica commentedreading the original feature request i thought a service like http://pulserss.com/ that i use, can be example of what the request intended -if i am not wrong
you need to register/get an account on pulserss.com and put the script provided on your theme -
You get 3 types of stats of RSS feed
(pulserss.com -Unique visits- visitor statistics), (pulserss.com referrers), (pulserss.com search keywords)
maybe it can be achieved with Xstatistics with additions
Xstatistics visitor statistics/ Unique visits [RSS]
Xstatistics referrers [RSS]
Xstatistics search keywords [RSS]