Vice Stats ========== Vice Stats is an advanced web site statistics gathering package. It collects data about the resources in a web site, the visitors to that site, and the referring resources. It runs in PHP and stores its data in a MySQL database. Current version: 0.2 beta Release date: May 7th, 2005 Homepage: http://www.arantius.com/topic/arantius/vice+stats/ Features ======== Vice Stats provides the following features: - Reporting of recent and frequent search phrases. - Reporting of recent and frequent referring URLs. - Reporting of recently and frequently accessed resources. - Hourly (past 24 hours) and daily (past 7 days) reporting of total hits and unique visitors. - Demographic breakdown by: country, browser, platform. - Graphical reporting on: frequent searches, frequent referrers, frequently accessed resources, hourly and daily hits & visits, countries, browsers, and platforms. - Visitor session tracking. - Real time reporting. - Ignore a visitor based off IP address or special cookie. Vice Stats, in it's default configuration, is completely invisible to the end user. No extra scripts are sent to the browser, no cookies, and no images. Therefore, tracking cannot be blocked, intentionally or inadvertently. Separate modes employing javascript and cookies are also available if desired. Each mode has it's strengths and weaknesses, so you may choose which to use. Vice Stats is designed to be primarily a "real time" reporting tool, providing insight into the recent happenings on your website. Documentation ============= The following documentation files are available in this distribution: COPYING Copyright and license information CREDITS Details on the individuals and groups who have contributed INSTALL Instructions for installation README This file RELEASE_NOTES Information about each different version TODO Notes about incomplete or upcoming features Installation ============ Please read the file INSTALL for instructions how to install or upgrade this package. License ======= Vice Stats - Web site statistics gathering suite. Copyright (C) 2005 Anthony Lieuallen This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA