How can i find out the number of times an external link was clicked?

This feature has not been added to a stable release yet. I expect to generate a new stable release soon.

If you're impatient, It is available on the 5.x-1.x-dev release. With this release, navigate to: Admin >> Logs >> External Link Popularity Summary.

I have installed and enabled this module version 5.1 but when i click on summary i don`t get any display or statistics of clicks..the table is empty..

Hi Shipoo:

Do you mean version 5.x-1.0?

Is this on a production or development site? If it is a devel site, it's important to know that the admin (user 1) does not record external clicks. You will need to create some dummy users to test this module.

You will also need to give the dummy users permission to record external clicks. The permission settings can be found at admin/user/access under the pop_links module section.

Let me know if that solves your problem.

Best,

sicjoy

Hi,

I want to display the number of views in the teaser. But because I have a drigg site (ie the title is an external link) enabling "Count content view" in Access Log Settings will not suffice, because that counts how many times the full node has been viewed.

I wonder how I can write a simple formula A+B=X , whereby
A=count of full node views
B=count of how many times the external link has been clicked
X=a total number of how many times the node has been viewed on the local site AND how many times the external link has been clicked.

Any ideas?

I'm not sure about counting node views.

External Link Popularity will count external link clicks.

--sicjoy

@sicjoy -- Yes, of course, but you're missing my point. What I'm saying is that this module is producing some sort of database variable which counts the number of external clicks, right??? If it is a variable, then it can be pulled from the database and put into a simple algorithm that would add it with the number of full-node-views. This could give us a nice (and more precise) TOTAL of Views+Clicks

For example that algolithm could look something like this:

<?php $count_views_and_clicks_tot = db_result(db_query("SELECT COUNT(clicks_and_views) FROM {name of table}"));echo $count_views_tot + $count_clicks_tot;?>

Of course, I don't know what the names of the actual drupal variables and db tables are. And I'm not the best person to write such an algorithm properly, which is why I posted this comment.

If you wrote a correct php line here, then we could put it in out theme templates, and display it in our node teasers. Because it is another great indicator of individual scoop's popularity.

Alternatively, it would be extra cool if this module would have an additonal option like "Add the number of node views to the number of clicks"

What do you think?

You can do that with my patches (http://drupal.org/node/616586) and Views GroupBy (http://drupal.org/project/views_groupby).