Comments on: Web Analytics guest blogger: Matthieu from phpMyVisites

By: Kazelguo

Kazelguo — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 22:32:49 +0000

Hi webmaster!

By: Kazelpwb

Kazelpwb — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 20:14:32 +0000

Hi webmaster!

By: Tristan Bailey

Tristan Bailey — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 10:43:07 +0000

This would be interesting
>The top 5 statistics to alert you to a website crisis
What are you going to track, Track history day on day or hour on hour and look for unusual spikes if comparing the same period over all known data?

Maybe could tell you if your about to get slashdoted or could equally tell you if something unexpected has just got interest. Like old stories on a website.

By: QZNIv

QZNIv — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 02:01:18 +0000

You Should try this too!,

By: FPGA

FPGA — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 23:21:35 +0000

What are the advantages of this over using analytics (except that it is hosted locally)?

By: Bill

Bill — Wed, 14 May 2008 23:53:38 +0000

Hi Matthieu:

I’m an expert media planner, but I’m an amateur user of both packages (OpenX and phpMyVisites). I’d like to use them as tools for managing client advertising as well as use them for the development of a niche network.

What I’d like to know is if there’s a way that these two packages can be seamlessly integrated to enable a more robust tracking of the following:
1. Viewthroughs
2. CPM / CPC / CPA results
3. ROI, based on media costs input by the user.

I feel this is a naive request, but maybe not?

Cheers,
Bill.

By: matthieu.aubry

matthieu.aubry — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 14:40:22 +0000

Tobias and geniosity, both your suggestions are pertinent.

Geniosity, thank you for the nice words. But the future is even brighter for phpMyVisites as we’re working on something big…

By: geniosity

geniosity — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 10:20:24 +0000

Hi Matthieu,

I am a long time phpMyVisites user. And to everybody reading this, I FULLY recommend you use this package. Some of the benefits:

- Self hosted, so statistics are real-time (or as close as)
- The information is very well laid out, making it easy to see stats at a glance
- The interface looks good. (That is ALWAYS a big thing for me).

A1: I know enough about analytics to see what brought visitors to my sites, why, and what they might have actually been looking for, which helps improve the site

A2: I like your idea of writing about “The top 5 statistics to alert you to a website crisis”. That could be quite interesting.

Anyway, hope to read your post soon.

By: Tobias Schwarz

Tobias Schwarz — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 11:48:53 +0000

Hi Matthieu!

To answer your questions: I am experienced in Web Analytics and I want you to write about “how a heatmap could help to improve the site performance”. I guess I pointed out various things in my guestpost Optimize your website for higher revenue but I didn’t write a thing about heatmaps. In addition It would be nice to read things about content- and adplacement.

Btw.: Do you have any data about how far users scroll down on long sites? I really miss that kind of information in all analytic-softwares. Can you add that kind of functionallity to phpmyvisits? I guess you just need a js that increases a variable when scrolling and submits it’s value when leaving the site…

Best Regards,
Tobias