Gathering page view statistics is inherently write operation, which is inherently heavy on resources. There are no appropriate mechanisms in WP for high volume writes at low resource consumption. Your best bet is using external analytics system/service and retrieving page view data from it.
Unless you have a “religious” objection to share data with google then using GA is just the simplest and best way to go. Storing stats in your DB is a good start if you want to bring your server down when there is slightly high traffic, and in any case you can get all the … Read more
Here’s an idea for a starting point, by looking how the word counting is done in the /wp-admin/js/post.js file: /** * Testing word price calculations */ add_action( ‘after_wp_tiny_mce’, function() { ?><script> ( function( $ ) { $( function() { // Init var $content = $( ‘#content’ ), $count = $( ‘#wp-word-count’ ).find( ‘.word-count’ ), total_price … Read more
You want a plugin (or another piece of software) that tracks the actual server logs. If you don’t need WordPress integration there are many options, AWStats is a classic for Apache and other server log formats. I don’t know whether there are plugins that integrate nicely with WordPress (normalizing URLs to posts and stuff like … Read more
Put simply, you don’t, and you shouldn’t The Problems Race Conditions Make the Data Super Unreliable Updating post meta, options, terms, etc is not an atomic operation. You need to fetch the view count, add 1 to it, then send it back to the database. During that process, another page load is occuring which does … Read more
This is why: http://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/stats/tags/1.7.2/stats.php#L685 The deactivation hook deletes your database information. I’m guessing you’re manually deactivating the plugin, updating, and then re-activating? If so, that runs the deactivation hook. Fortunately, that’s not from the latest version. This is: http://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/stats/tags/1.7.3/stats.php#L686 So that shouldn’t happen anymore. By the way, you shouldn’t think that this means you were … Read more
I think you want wp-postviews
Try this Works on single site // post views function setAndViewPostViews($postID) { $count_key = ‘views’; $count = get_post_meta($postID, $count_key, true); if($count==”){ $count = 0; delete_post_meta($postID, $count_key); add_post_meta($postID, $count_key, ‘0’); }else{ $count++; update_post_meta($postID, $count_key, $count); } return $count; /* so you can show it */ } You need to add the following function to your theme’s … Read more
Track usernames with piwik [closed]
If you use Google Analytics, you can add custom variables to the tracking code to pass a user ID.