Hi,
This is my first post on these forums, so first off I'd like to give a big thanks to all the developers who work on Piwik for creating such a great product!
We've been using Piwik for around 6 months now, always using import_logs.py. We currently track 15 sites this way on a dedicated server. Everything is working very well.
However, when we view the download statistics, we notice two things that seem a little off:
1 - The downloads are tracking almost only png, jpg and js downloads (some PDFs and other formats as well, but a very short list of those, see #2 below). Since these are not in the DOWNLOAD_EXTENSIONS setting in import_logs.py, I'm guessing that download stats tracks the most popular extensions and ignores this param? Is this correct?
Hopefully to remedy this, we've just now added --download-extensions= and a comma separated list of extensions we would like to track. Is this the only way to track only download files we wish to track?
2 - When we view PDF downloads, we're only seeing downloads for some of our PDFs. It is very important that we have a count of ALL PDF downloads. Again I'm guessing that Piwik only records the more popular downloads, and drops stats for the less popular downloads. How can I force Piwik to show stats for ALL downloads in my --download-extensions= param.
This is my current EXTRA_PARAMS setting:
EXTRA_PARAMS='--enable-http-errors --enable-http-redirects --enable-static --enable-bots --recorders=8 --recorder-max-payload-size=500 --download-extensions=bin,doc,docx,exe,gz,gzip,mpg,mp3,mp4,mpeg,pdf,ppt,pptx,rar,tar,tbz,bz2,tbz,tgz,txt,wav,wma,wmv,xls,xlsx,xml,xsd,zip'
Is there anything I'm missing, or more I can tweak to get more accurate download stats?
Many thanks for any suggestions you might have.
This is my first post on these forums, so first off I'd like to give a big thanks to all the developers who work on Piwik for creating such a great product!
We've been using Piwik for around 6 months now, always using import_logs.py. We currently track 15 sites this way on a dedicated server. Everything is working very well.
However, when we view the download statistics, we notice two things that seem a little off:
1 - The downloads are tracking almost only png, jpg and js downloads (some PDFs and other formats as well, but a very short list of those, see #2 below). Since these are not in the DOWNLOAD_EXTENSIONS setting in import_logs.py, I'm guessing that download stats tracks the most popular extensions and ignores this param? Is this correct?
Hopefully to remedy this, we've just now added --download-extensions= and a comma separated list of extensions we would like to track. Is this the only way to track only download files we wish to track?
2 - When we view PDF downloads, we're only seeing downloads for some of our PDFs. It is very important that we have a count of ALL PDF downloads. Again I'm guessing that Piwik only records the more popular downloads, and drops stats for the less popular downloads. How can I force Piwik to show stats for ALL downloads in my --download-extensions= param.
This is my current EXTRA_PARAMS setting:
EXTRA_PARAMS='--enable-http-errors --enable-http-redirects --enable-static --enable-bots --recorders=8 --recorder-max-payload-size=500 --download-extensions=bin,doc,docx,exe,gz,gzip,mpg,mp3,mp4,mpeg,pdf,ppt,pptx,rar,tar,tbz,bz2,tbz,tgz,txt,wav,wma,wmv,xls,xlsx,xml,xsd,zip'
Is there anything I'm missing, or more I can tweak to get more accurate download stats?
Many thanks for any suggestions you might have.
