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Does pHp have a method to log statistics such as the number of users per day, new member additions, etc., for trending purposes?

Phpbb doesn't really come with much in terms of statistic logging, although it does have a bit.

I do howver have google analytics installed on the forums. It shows quite a bit of information, but nothing specific to the forums (such as post counts, registered users,etc). It logs information such as # of visitors, new visitors, where the visitors came from, keywords used in searches and more.

Is there something in particular you are looking for? I might have some information you want.

Number of users who visit per day, and new member accounts per day are the numbers I am interested in. Maybe daily and hourly new post activity too. No biggie, just like to see how the site is progressing. I have been fairly impressed so far with the new member accounts.

If analytics doesn't track the # of new users/day already, you could set a goal for visitors landing on the final step of the account creation page. That's how my employer does it.

Here is what phpbb provides you for stats:

Visitors Overview Google Analytics:
New vs Returning Visitors
Pageviews

Time On Site Per Visit
Browser Type
Traffic Sources

Awesome! Thanks for sharing all the stats. Now to fight the war on IE...

Two things stand out to me. In the first data image, users per day is a percentage?

The spike in visitors around Feb 14 is interesting...

No problem.

BTW Jan 29 is when I first installed google analytics, I don't have anything before this date.

mr x wrote:Two things stand out to me. In the first data image, users per day is a percentage?

The spike in visitors around Feb 14 is interesting...

Are you referring to the .47? If so, I believe that is referring to an average of .47 new users registered per day. So basically # of users registered/# of days site has been running?

mr x wrote:Two things stand out to me. In the first data image, users per day is a percentage?

The spike in visitors around Feb 14 is interesting...

The spike in visitors shows it was from the site http://www.reddit.com" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

I am not sure why it started linking from there, but it resulted in 87 referrals to this site on that one day and then dropped off to a handful a day after that.

What is Bounce Rate?

The number of users that leave the site without visiting a second page.

benwedge wrote:If analytics doesn't track the # of new users/day already, you could set a goal for visitors landing on the final step of the account creation page.

Clever. I monitor 3 or 4 sites through Google Analytics, and I've never really had the time to do anything with it - hints like this are handy

KMcK wrote:What is Bounce Rate?

benwedge wrote:The number of users that leave the site without visiting a second page.

Ah, kind of like to going to a pub, finding that they only serve Keith's, and never going back, expect that in this case you like Keith's and the place only serves real beer.

Alright you statistic whores...look up top on your page by your "logout" button, there is a link that says "statistics". Under that link you will find all the stats you could ever ask for

Jimmy wrote:Alright you statistic whores...look up top on your page by your "logout" button, there is a link that says "statistics". Under that link you will find all the stats you could ever ask for

Awesome! Thanks for adding that. It seems there are many variations on "Halifax" that are throwing the user location stats off. We're an inconsistent bunch I suppose.

benwedge wrote:

Jimmy wrote:Alright you statistic whores...look up top on your page by your "logout" button, there is a link that says "statistics". Under that link you will find all the stats you could ever ask for

Awesome! Thanks for adding that. It seems there are many variations on "Halifax" that are throwing the user location stats off. We're an inconsistent bunch I suppose.

No worries. It's got quite a bit of good information in there..interesting to see some of those stats.

This is good, we have been maintaining and occasionally increasing the number of people who check in per day.

Yeah, soon we'll have to start selling ad space.

KMcK wrote:Yeah, soon we'll have to start selling ad space.

I actually had that setup a while back, it was running on the board for about 15 min. I was going to use it to try and recoup some of the cost of running the forum but decided I wanted the site 100% ad free..I hate ads on websites

Jimmy wrote:

KMcK wrote:Yeah, soon we'll have to start selling ad space.

I actually had that setup a while back, it was running on the board for about 15 min. I was going to use it to try and recoup some of the cost of running the forum but decided I wanted the site 100% ad free..I hate ads on websites

It's your site and your choice imo, but I don't care if there are ads (of course, I run adblock and never see them anyway )

I like the ad-free quality. If the costs are becoming a burden I'm sure some of us would be willing to donate to keep this great site up and running.