Tracking Plugin

This plug-in contains macros for anonymously tracking content access.

Details

This plug-in contains macros for anonymously tracking content access.

Otherwise known as 'hit counting', this macro provides the ability to count the number of times a given piece of content has been viewed. It does not count views by the most recent editor of the page.

Please note that this is not currently intended to be a fully-fledged statistics package. Check out the Traffic Stats Plugin page, which is attempting to collect information about what kind of statistics would be useful to people.

Contains the following macros:

• {content-info} (deprecated)
• {tracking-info}
• {tracking-table}
• {tracking-column}

The tracking plugin also only counts visits from the time that the plugin is installed. It has no way to retrieve historical data.

Note The view count will not increase when the page is viewed by the most recent editor of the page. This is to prevent the count from being artificially inflated by the editor doing edits or responding to comments, etc. To see the count go up, just log out, or log in as another user.

Overview

Bugs & Feature Requests

Bug reports and feature requests are available in JIRA.

Release History

You can view the full release history here.

Tip You can also use the Reporting Plugin to display and filter based on tracking data, via the Tracking Data Supplier.

To view the macro's documentation, click on its name below.

{tracking-column}

Describes a column of data in a tracking-table. more info...

{tracking-info}

This macro outputs tracking information about the current (or any other) page, including the number of times it has been viewed, the first view date and the last view date. more info...

{tracking-table}

This macro outputs a table of tracking data for a specified set of content (pages, news, attachments, etc). more info...

Note Suppliers provide information which can be used by the Reporting Plugin and Linking Plugin, among others. Below is the list of suppliers provided by this plugin. Other plugins may also provide their own Suppliers - see the complete list for details.

Tracking Data Supplier

Provides information from the Tracking Plugin regarding content view counts. more info...

Below are listed some recipes which make use of this plugin. They are often good examples of how it can be used in real-world situations.

Pie chart of page visits recipe

Create a pie chart displaying the number of visits to pages. more info...