phpMyVisites is an open source (GNU/GPL) PHP/MySQL script for websites statistics and audience measurements. It gives a lot of information on websites visitors, visited pages, software/hardware utilization, etc.
Official Demo | Forum | Screenshot of my installation’s statistics page
Some of the significant features are:
- Security: Because security is a critical software element, phpMyVisites has maximum protection against intrusions and external attacks.
- Multiple Web Sites: Multiple web sites may be added. Each site will have precise and distinct statistics.
- Multi Users: Add an infinite number of users and manage permissions for each user (viewing and/or administration rights for certain sites).
- Receive web site statistics everyday by e-mail, by RSS feed, etc.
For the complete list, click here.
Installation is quite simple.
- Download the script
- Extract the contents and upload the directory on to your webserver (if your host provides shell access, it’s faster to upload via SSH. As the number of files and directories is huge, it takes a lot of time to upload via FTP).
- CHMOD 777 the root directory (phpmv2/)
- Go to http://www.<your_site_url.com/your_phpmyvisites_directory>/
and follow the installation instructions.
Video
I have recorded the screen activity of my phpMyVisites installation (via FTP) as a 800×600 8min (8.5MB) flash movie. Click on the image below to watch (auto starts):
You can find the link to administration section at the bottom of the page after you log in as admin.
To activate the ClickHeat (Heat Map) module for first time usage:
- click on Manage plugins, tick the enabled column of ClickHeat - Visitors clicks heatmap and hit Submit.
- Click Go to statistics link at the top. Under PAGES VIEWED, click ClickHeat - Visitors clicks heatmap.
- Click Next step: configuration.
- Verify all the values and change any as you see fit (the defaults are fine). Click Check configuration. Click Save configuration.
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20 Jan 08
4:06 am
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