Minimalistic visitor stats based on PHP?

Question

Does anybody know a minimalistic, nice-looking visitor statistics suite based on PHP that displays visitor stats in a end-user friendly way.

I know Google Analytics, and the big names in PHP and Perl based traffic analysis; they are all too complicated and feature-rich for what I need. I am looking for something that is already totally simplified and that I don't have to strip down.

Required features:

• Visitors today, this week, this month
• Where visitors came from
• A good referer overview
• Visitors on this page
• Good filtering of bots

Optional:

• Can connect to built-in IP locator thingy, I forget the name... Anyway, I have good IP to country resolution based on one of the big providers' functions in the provider's $_SERVER variable

• A nice API and/or source code documentation to extend / interact with would be a plus.

There is no access to the server logs on the server I want to use this so the suite would have to bring its own tracking facilities, be that a PHP include, an image or a script.

Open Source would be nice, but I would consider paid solutions as well, as long as they're scripts shipped with source. I want no dependencies from external services.

Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

In most cases, you'd roll your own. Take a look at PHP's $_REQUEST documentation and write this data into a SQL table. You can do this portion very easily in 20 lines or less, and if you're clever - probably 5 or so.

Now, displaying that data can be done in any method you so choose, since you've got all the data in an SQL table. Sort, filter, and organize using any method you please.

Answer 2

Perhaps one of the most well-known PHP-based analytics applications out there is Mint (http://haveamint.com/). It's not as feature rich as other analytics apps ... it may be too feature rich for what you are looking for.

Answer 3

Google Analytics is by far the most used of all statistic software and is the most reliable.

You get a global map of where in the world they're coming from, what specific pages they come from, duration on the site.

Answer 4

I just started using Clicky, which I am very happy with. Was using Google Analytics before, but this is a lot cleaner and clearer.

If you want to display stats to visitors you can either allow public access through the preferences, or you can use some of the widgets they provide. I would probably go with the latter.

Another cool thing is that you can actually watch real-time statistics. For example, they have a map where dots pop up when someone enters your site. Fun, fun, fun ;D

Answer 5

I liked the look of Piwiki, however it may be a bit feature heavy for you. I is aimed at being a foss alternative to Google Analytics