Web Traffic Analysis

In this continuation of the article, "Logging With PHP," the author explains how to build a PHP/MySQL-driven Web traffic logging and analysis system that can be continually updated, which provides information on what content was being viewed, browser and platforms stats, and trends over time. This system is currently being used on SourceForge.net.

Have you wondered where and how people leave off your site? Well, this one-page tutorial shows you how to setup a PHP redirection script with logging feature. You can use the script for link-based as well as form-based redirection while logging your visitors.

This one page tutorial show you how to use PHP to display your site traffic statistics on the fly at any time. Along with its supplied PHP script, you will learn how to get access to your statistics that are continually updated, and that simultaneously support multiple sites, and multiple actions (page view, ad click, click-in, click-out, etc).

Don't have access to your server logfile? Here, you will find how to create your own logfile using PHP. It is basically a small PHP script that extracted all the appropriate environment variables, put them together as a Common Logfile Format entry and write it to a file.