Change 'Top referrers' report to 'Recent referrers'

I believe it was submitted against head a while back.. head changed though.. How's this..

--- statistics.module.old 2007-07-02 13:09:48.000000000 -0400
+++ statistics.module 2007-07-02 13:09:21.000000000 -0400
@@ -338,7 +338,7 @@
$header = array(
array('data' => t('Hits'), 'field' => 'hits', 'sort' => 'desc'),
array('data' => t('Url'), 'field' => 'url'),
- array('data' => t('Last visit'), 'field' => 'last'),
+ array('data' => t('Last visit'), 'field' => 'last', 'sort' => 'desc'),
);

$query .= tablesort_sql($header);
@@ -509,7 +509,7 @@
function _statistics_link($path, $width = 35) {
$title = drupal_get_path_alias($path);
$title = truncate_utf8($title, $width, FALSE, TRUE);
- return l($title, $path);
+ return l($title, $path, array('title' => $path));
}

function _statistics_format_item($title, $path) {

Arancaytar, I've copied the code into a file that I have now attached. People do this both ways though and for the two line change I was proposing it seemed like it wasn't worth the bother of attaching a file. I can try to attach files more in the future though.

Gábor, the patch has been working for me but the default display doesn't order them by who has sent the most people to your site. I do think that it is much more useful for people to track who is sending people to your site in the last day or so than it is to know that the top referrer has now sent 4030 hits your way (where as maybe the last time you looked at it there were only 4002). When ordered by number of hits it is hard to learn what new is happening to your site. It is useful to see the count on each referrer by default, but for people who are actively watching where there links are coming from this display isn't all that useful.

True about the two sort orders, I guess the one I added trumped the one that was there. I revised my patch.

The naming thing is a bit of an issue though as people would probably expect the top referrers to be ordered by the count. However, how often do you presently check the top referrers? Would you check recent referrers more often? Does it need to be something that the user can configure themselves?

I thought I added this as a feature request, but that was quite some time ago now so not sure.

And yes, would totally like some more feedback from both usability folks and seo folks.

Oh yeah, for usability, might be useful to modify the menu entry too then so that Recent referrers gets added to the list of other recent logs (Recent log entries, Recent hits & Recent keywords).

The patch is starting to get longer, sorry..

Anyways, this will make the default behavior easier for people who want to keep an eye on recent referral information, but also allow people to easily change the sort order to search by top counts too.

Mike

Pushing forward to D8

I think this code isn't in Core any more.