AbleDesign

[Dan]

Actually, it's sort of a pre-release announcement. I'm wrapping up putting together the documentation and will probably have the program packaged up and ready to go some time tomorrow (Monday).

In addition to AbleLogger Lite's visitor tracking and IP address search capabilities, AbleLogger Pro adds:

- added an auto-IP banning option

admin tool for emptying db table (with confirmation page) - purge all or purge logs older than 'x' days
-- purge page displays current size of database

- view graphical stats for:
-- top 'x' Most Active Visitors (IP Address)
-- top 'x' Most Often Viewed Pages
-- top 'x' referers (external sites)
-- top 'x' referers by grouped domain, i.e. example.com (external sites)
-- top 'x' local referers - of local pages, which lead to most on-site referers?
-- Page Views by Day of the Week
-- Page Views by Day of the Month
-- Page Views by Day of the Year
-- Page Views by Month of the Year
-- Page Views By Hour of the Day
-- Unique IPs by Day of the Week
-- Unique IPs by Day of the Month
-- Unique IPs by Day of the Year
-- Unique IPs by Month of the Year
-- Unique IPs By Hour of the Day
-- Average Number of Page Views Per Visitor
-- Average Number of Page Views Per Day
-- Web Browser
-- Operating System

- option to filter out known spiders and bots for all stats displays

- when viewing IP details or page/referer searches, referer display is made more concise by removing the local site domain (i.e. example.com) from the URL and making it a non-hyperlink

- search for all visits to a specific page (with pattern matching for path/file names)

- search for all visits by referer (with pattern matching)

- overview page now defaults to sorting most recent visits at top of list regardless of when that IP address first visited for the day

- overview page shows total number of page views, number of visitors, average pages viewed per visitor, and average duration of visit for the selected day

- detailed view (by IP address) defaults to current day, links to other days the IP address has visited, with option to view all of the days at once

- added option to ignore certain IPs (i.e. admin) from being logged

- sets a cookie when overview page last checked; when reloading/revisiting the overview, anything more recent is highlighted to visually find new log entries faster

- no longer logs local domain name as part of referer, just the path/file info -- less data storage and processing for admin viewing

- for external referers by grouped domain, the domain display links to a search page for that referer

- now displays local time and last visit time in nav header section

- improved navigation header section

- improved database storage efficiency


I'll be putting together a separate demo of AbleLogger Pro, as well.

Cheers,
Dan

[Dan]

It's official now, AbleLogger Pro v2.00 is now available!

http://abledesign.com/programs/AbleLogger/

Full version history at:

http://abledesign.com/programs/AbleLogger/vhistory_AbleLogger.php

Cheers,
Dan

[Dan]

The demo for AbleLogger Pro is now available:

http://abledesign.com/demo/view_stats.php

The bulk of the stats available will be for the period 11/27 - 12/2/03, so as to keep the database from becoming overly large.

Cheers,
Dan