Could you please explain what is the relation of Quickstats to the default Drupal pageview counting and display.

Does Quickstats replace the usual Drupal pageview counting?

Also, what is the difference between results from Drupal pageviews and Quickstats when normal caching is switched on?

Thanks!

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vacilando’s picture

vacilando commented

In case Quickstats replaces the Drupal count (set in /admin/reports/settings), is there a way of converting the Drupal counts (on long-existing sites) so that Quickstats does not start from zero for each page?

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OneTwoTait commented

subscribing....

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Babalu commented

subscribing

FiReaNGeL’s picture

FiReaNGeL commented

Quickstats is intended to replace Drupal statistics.module (which counts pageviews) on sites that experience heavy traffic - it is optimized to count pageviews in a way that put the least stress on the database. I think you can run both at the same time but there is really no point in doing that.

(Normal) Caching shouldn't affect it in any way.

At the current time there is no 'upgrade path' to update the quickstats count for each node. It shouldn't be that complicated to do; a single UPDATE mysql statement should do it - is there a real need for this?

Babalu’s picture

Babalu commented

i think it would be better to have it then have it not

vacilando’s picture

vacilando commented

At the current time there is no 'upgrade path' to update the quickstats count for each node. It shouldn't be that complicated to do; a single UPDATE mysql statement should do it - is there a real need for this?

FiReaNG3L, I am sure it would be very useful - if this stats system is so much quicker as advertised, I am sure many existing sites, with lots of accumulated stats, would want to switch to it (I know I would do that for many sites!) If you are still unsure, perhaps you could at least publish the SQL statement for the update either here or in the README of the module, for those who need it.

Thanks!

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patchak commented

+1 to save the number of pageviews alreasy on the site as I would wish to use this for performance reasons but cannot lose all stats the site already has!

Another question, would this module count visits even for a site using advanced cache or Boost module??

Thanks,
Patchak