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Yep, that was manually updated. And I deleted an older scheme that needed Drupal's statistics module, http://drupal.org/cvs?commit=394570. I recommend asking around for Google Analytics access. Maybe even stick 'has book hierarchy' in for segmentation to filter out non-handbook pages.

Well, I'm willing to help, but I got a question from Amazon that threw me for a loop:

…it's more complicated than [linking my e-mail address to the d.o Google Analytics account].

How do do you tell which pages are in the handbook?

We are going to need to put in a special tracking code into the theme for handbook pages.

You can't tell node/345687 from node/456777. Which one is in the handbook?

Help?

Can you send me a screenshot of the page I can share with Kieran? That might prompt another idea. Otherwise, I'll let him know that we'll wait until docs.d.o is deployed.

Google can do http://code.google.com/apis/analytics/docs/tracking/gaTrackingCustomVari.... We use http://drupal.org/project/google_analytics.

@arianek, AWStats is generally provided free of charge by hosting services. At least I could run it for free on one of the sites I administered recently. It couldn't do fancy stuff, but it could quickly produce easy-to-download reports on page hits, unique visitors, and maybe even ISP of the visitor. But wouldn't one need webmaster-like access to the d.o server to run it?

@drumm, are you saying that if I were to get access to the Google Analytics for d.o I could set up my own report, selecting the pages I wanted reports on — as opposed to having to glean handbook pages by node from a sitewide report? If so, that sounds promising… really promising!

Access won't help right now; we don't log whether node pages are in the book hierarchy or not. We would have to start doing that.

Just for more background on how this page has worked in the past, originally back in the day we automatically generated the page from Drupal core's statistics module. When we did the upgrade to 6 (I think) statistics module was disabled due to performance concerns and the page went stale. We took that down and (I) started to manually review the AWStats, pick out handbook pages, and then write the popular pages page by hand. It didn't last long as you can see because it was a royal PITA.

I should add that I was given special access to the AWStats each month by Killes to do this. It is a very manual and not easily accessible way of doing it.

It might be very helpful if the reader could look at the most popular pages *per guide*.

In other words, if I'm a developer I'm probably more interested in what other developers are looking at rather than seeing that the new d7 install guide is hot this month.

When we have tagging it would also be nice to have the option of both "most viewed" and "most starred (or whatever the term is)".

As a reader (and as a docs person) I'd REALLY want to know what other people think is the most valuable information in a given guide.

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Nearly nine years and there has been no further support for this. I am going to close this for lack of interest. Re-open, or start of new issue referring to this one, is you want to pursue this.