Server load

In light of this discussion on the Joomla.org forum http://forum.joomla.org/index.php/topic,57668.0.html about the load that stat programs can cause, how does Joomla-Visites stack up?

How many querries does it make per page?
What perforance penalties does it cause?

Hi,

there are two points :
- the load generated by the javascript tag. Actually the maximum number of query by hit of the tag is 3. And these query are really soft : only one table is used and WHERE clauses are made on indexed fields.
- the load generated when consulting the statistics. For past days, month and years, an archive with all computed datas is generated only once. This computation can take some minutes if you have a big site. But after that, you are free to analyze your statistics without overloading your server.

Does it answer your question?

Arnaud

That helps. I can live with that.

Are there anythings that can be done to minimize this load?

Also, are there any plans for incorporating visitor path analysis. This seems very important to me to understand how to make a site more user friendly. I wonder if some adaptation of stuff from phpOpenTracker (www.phpopentracker.de) would work?

When will there be a version for joomla 1.5?

Larry

A related question

There is a plugin to integrate phpMyVisites with CrawlTracks. will that plugin also work with JoomlaVisites?

If/when CrawlTracks is integrated with phpMyVisites via the plugin, how much additional server load does CrawlTracks cause?

If JoomlaVisites does not now integrate with CrawlTrack, is that planned for the future?

Thanks

Larry

Hi,

to minimize the load, don't look your current day stats every 5 minutes... You cana also have a look at the config files.

I don't kown the plugin for CrawlTracks.

The next release (2.0) of Joomla-Visites will be build on Piwik (the successor of phpMyVisites) and will work Joomla 1.5.

Arnaud