Right now graphstat only provides the plot of unique visitors. It'd be very useful to have the actual count. Thank you for making this important module

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mwu commented

Actually, is the graph for unique visitors or for number of registered users?

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DriesK commented

@question 1: can you elaborate a little bit more? Do you want the actual count per 2 hour interval, for example to be displayed above the graph bars, or do you mean the total count per day, ...?

@question 2: count = unique visitors, as determined by IP address. This count is independent of roles (anonymous vs authenticated).

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mwu commented

Thank you for your quick response.

Q1. The total number of unique visitors per day as opposed to 2 hour blocks. Of course to try to compare with other sites, unique visitors per month would be useful as well.
Q2. That doesn't seem to jive with the data. The unique visitors graph says about 35. But several times I saw 2 logged on users and about 43 guests. What would that be?

Q3. Also, is that the cumulative total of unique visitors who have ever visited? The total goes up only, but unique visitors per day should go up and down. The traffic was heavier when there was some news.

Q4. Also, is someone comes through AOL or something like that, she or he gets a different IP address every time they log on right? Would they then be counted as 2 unique visitors?

Thank you.

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DriesK commented

@Q1: good idea, I'm definately interested in adding the numbers, and some other statistics as well. The only problem is time :-) But I'll put it on my todo list.

@Q2: Be careful with the number of users as indicated in the "Who's online" block! It counts the number of users (both logged in and out) that have accessed a page within the last x minutes. You can set x in administer->blocks->configure link of the who's online block. So first of all, this is not the number of actual users at any time point, users may have left for maximum x minutes already. And secondly (!), if you never changed or confirmed this setting, it will probably say '15 minutes'. The truth is that there is a bug in user.module, and it actually uses 45 minutes! So, a user will only disappear from the who's online block, 45 minutes after his last page visit! This makes a comparison with graphstat, which does an exact count, impossible. (about the bug: once you ever save this setting, either 15 minutes or any other number, the block behaves as it should. I'm going to file a bug report about this within a few minutes.) I always use 30 seconds or 1 minute.

@Q3: the bars indicate the number of unique visitors _within that time frame_. So for example IP 127.0.0.1 visits at 12.10h, and visits again at 16.10h. This will count as a unique visit for each 2-hour interval. Therefore it would be useful to include daily graphics as well.

@Q4: not sure about AOL IP handling, but if IP's change, they will be seen as different visitors. There's not much that can be done about that I guess.

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mwu commented

Thank you for the explanations and telling about the bug! I changed it immediately.

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pepiqueta commented

Bump!
A history graph showing unique visitors evolution would be very useful.
Hope you can get some spare time to add this feature.

Thank you for your work on this nice project.

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Steel Rat commented
Title: provide actual number of unique visitors in addition to graph » Exclude Admin from statistics

Is there a way to exclude the admin from statistics? Seems kind of silly to include them in the first place.

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marcoBauli commented
Title: Exclude Admin from statistics » Provide actual number of unique visitors in addition to graph

@steel rat: try the statistics_filter.module, it should do what you need.

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