Webstats A free and easy web site stats counter Freeware Version 8.2 Description I found that there were a lot of stats packages out there on the web designed to count visitors, and keep track of where it they from. The problem was that most of those visitor trackers were just too complicated. I just wanted to know how many visitors I was getting - and where they came from. So I ended up writing my own script. It's called Webstats and it's a full visitor stats package. Features • Tracks where your surfer came from. • Tracks which page they looked at. • Tracks how many visits you've had in TOTAL. • Captures the search engine phrase they used to find you (where applicable). • Easy to install - even for someone new to scripts. Very little work to do. • Stores all stats data, separated into different days. • The script generates folders for any data if and as it is needed. • ONLY one installation is needed - one script serves all your domains. • Stats and admin area are password protected - only YOU can see your stats. • 100% FREE! • Full deletion of unwanted files which the script creates. Screen Shot Here's the kind of stats you'll see once Webstats is installed on your webspace. There's not much info on this screen shot but it lets you see the layout. Click to enlarge Download & Installation Download the latest version HERE ( Version 8.2 ) 1) Download and unzip the archived file. You should now have: admin.php blank.gif counter.php delete.php settings.php stats.php 2) Create a folder on any one of your domains called webstats/ 3) Upload all of the files in to webstats/ 4) Create a folder in webstats/ called data/ - you should now have: webstats/ webstats/data/ 5) Change the permissions on the folder /data/ to 777 (using CHMOD). Click here for a tutorial on CHMOD. 6) Open settings.php in a text editor. Let's customize the settings: $program_domain="domain-webstats-is-in.com"; This is the domain you chose in step 2) $path_to_webstats = "/home/htdocs/domain-webstats-is-in.com/"; This is the server path up to but not including the webstats folder. Check out this guide to finding your server path: What's my server path? $your_username = "user"; Pick a user name. $your_password = "pass"; Pick a password. 7) You will now have a special stats page. It should look something like: http://www.domain-webstats-is-in.com/webstats/stats.php If you click on ADMIN page, you'll be given 2 admin capabilities. 1) DELETE a folder will allow you to erase a folder in the data folder containing your visitor stats. My package keeps every day's data until you decide to have a clear out with this function. Some folks might want to have a clear out every week - others might want to keep this data for ever! 2) GENERATE CODE - this will generate the code that you need to place on EVERY page which you want referrer traffic to be counted for. It's a simple cut n paste tool that will make this task easier for you. Have a play with the package and let me know if you need any help with it. I'm using it every day to see where my traffic comes from and to track TGP traffic and so on. Version Updates: Versions 1 - 5 • Corrected various errors. • Now lists the largest traffic sender at the top and then the others in order of traffic thereafter. • Fixed bug with counter.php • Code greatly improved and streamlined Version 6 As promised, I've been working away at Webstats. There's now a much improved admin area where you can delete a full domain's info - OR you can go in and delete single day's info. This gets around the bug where some people were not able to delete info in their FTP programs. Anyway - this is a much faster way of removing the files you want to. Version 7 • Corrected bug where strange data was appearing in the stats page (where you select a domain / page from the drop-down box). Version 8 Updated 19th June 2003 • This is not a major or especially urgent update. I have altered the file stats.php slightly so that the page visited, and the page the surfer came from are now clickable. Clicking any of these links will open up the page in a new browser window. This is useful for checking up on where your traffic has come from, and is especially handy for checking search engine positions. Version 8.1 Updated 24th June 2003 • This is not a major or especially urgent update. This fixes a problem where referring URLs were not clickable when viewing a previous day's data. To update from an older version, download the zip file from the link above. Then upload stats.php over the existing one on your webspace. Version 8.2 Updated 4th April 2004 • This is an important update. The admin file is now more secure. To update from an older version of webstats, download the zip file, and extract admin.php. Upload this file over the one on your server. This is the only file which has changed. Enter Tom's Newbie Booster here More tips, scripts and help...