Make usage statistics EVEN MORE visible

My thoughts:

A project node like http://drupal.org/project/drupal needs a link to "View project statistics" somewhere, probably under "Resources" with the other links that are related to finding out more about the module.

A project statistics page like http://drupal.org/project/usage/3060 should have a link at the top that says "View all project usage statistics" or similar. Likewise, a release-specific page like http://drupal.org/project/usage/156281 should additionally have one that says "View all Drupal project usage statistics." I picture these as bulleted lists like on the project node. I realize the breadcrumb is there but it is not at all obvious that "Usage" is going to take me to a big crazy table with all usage stats across all projects. The link would make it more obvious.

Not sure about a project release node. Maybe. It would only add clutter to the releases table (and generally speaking the newest versions of things are not what people are using so it's probably a negative thing to add -- for example, 0 people are using Drupal 6.6 right now according to the stats), so definitely don't put it there. It seems like it could be moderately useful on the "View all releases" tab like at http://drupal.org/node/3060/release. But honestly, I'd say don't bother with this. If they're at the project node level, all they really need to know is "The copy of this module you want is version X.X;" how many people are using each release is really only relevant information if you're looking at the aggregate project stats imo.

First, something that I wanted to tell since yesterday when I saw "fixed" / "Deployed on d.o". Thank you so much to everyone involved! It's so useful to see if someone else is using what you've decided to share. :)

Now, I would suggest something simple, a section in the project page itself with a little table for usage statistics, maybe just under the releases table. If there were usage stats per release, then that would fit to the releases table itself.

And a qestion: Is there more data that can be shown? For instance, number of downloads per release, etc. Knowning that would make it easy to think about where to integrate this thing with project stuff, maybe.

re. Is there still more data that can be shown? As far as I know, no. At least not that project/project_usage collects. Amazon has been working with someone to parse the awstats logs from the web servers for downloads, but that's a completely separate project that we have nothing to do with. Eventually it's possible that somehow that data might be integrated with the project_usage module, and displayed together, but I don't see that happening terribly soon.

I'm a big -1 to adding any usage data into the release table itself. I think it's bordering on cluttered right now, and any additional data like this will take us past the tipping point.

I gave this a shot.

I agree with webchick that the breadcrumbs are a) easily overlooked, and b) point to unexpected places - for instance, on http://project.drupal.org/project/usage/drupal the last breadcrumb link points to project/usage, but a user may have come from the project page or even a release node.

So, this patch

• Changes page titles to "Usage statistics for %project", resp. "Usage statistics for %release".
• Unifies the header links on project usage pages to always contain (in this order):

  - View all %project_name usage statistics
  - View usage statistics for all projects
  - View %project_name project page

• Merges theme_project_usage_project_page_no_releases() into theme_project_usage_project_page().
• Adds a user_access check for the "View usage statistics" link on the project page.
• Adds the same user_access check for the "View usage statistics for this release" link on the project release page.

Meh. Missed to set proper arguments for l().

Also changed the order of header links on project/release usage pages to:

- View all %project_name usage statistics
- View %project_name project page
- View usage statistics for all projects

Albeit you didn't want me to, here's an updated patch that fixes project usage links on the overview page to use project names instead of node ids.

Scratch #8, separate issue.

Can this be tossed on p.d.o for a quick perusal? :)

@webchick: it is already. See links in comment #4.

I looked at the patch in #7 and the code looks good, though I haven't tested locally. My only comment would be that theme_project_usage_project_page() and theme_project_usage_release_page() don't have @return and a description of the returned value in the phpdoc, but that's pretty minor and I think it's pretty obvious what they are returning anyway.

code looks good. all links on p.d.o seem to work perfectly.

What would be really useful would be to get some sort of rank. Something like "This project is ranked 124th from 2500 projects".

On the overview page, it would be great to show the rank too as well as an up or down arrow to indicate its trend. It is really hard to see trends right now.

This is awesome!

How about a link on http://drupal.org/project/Modules

Shai

Would it be possible to add stats to "My projects" page? Maybe just for the current week? Maybe removing the link to create issues to make a little room?

to all: please create new issues for your feature requests, etc. instead of just tacking them onto this issue, which is marked fixed.

thanks

trivial fix. code looks good.