Forum:Individual page stats

Hello all. I've been spending some time now to answer this question: is there a way to have statistics about visits per single page per period? (Like how many visit were there on article Xyz during last months?)

I find the wiki where I'm admin to have quite a bad menu and bad front page. I'd like to see which pages are more visited than others to try to improve them first, and to make them more easily accessible. I've already seen a page that listed page views for the whole site, but that seemed to me that the numbers that were there were 'views since the page creation'. Oh and I think that page listed only the top 100 articles, which is quite limited when the site has 4000+ articles.

Thanks!

Hunter789 14:05, January 19, 2012 (UTC)


 * There was a special page for that, but seems it has been removed since it wasn't working properly. There was someone else asking about it here


 * Yechnagoth 20:38, January 19, 2012 (UTC)


 * Well I guess that's sums it up... that won't help me much as in that top 25 there are a bunch of articles that are in the same category. Anyways, thanks a lot for your input! Hunter789 20:52, January 19, 2012 (UTC)


 * Yeah, even though the wiki I work on only has about 1700 pages, 25 is still nothing, even if that feature doesn't come back it would be nice to be able to see a bigger list, perhaps up to 500. You could try sending this as a suggestion to staff. I might do it myself also. Yechnagoth 00:12, January 20, 2012 (UTC)


 * I sure will :) Perhaps they know ways to get that information and they don't advertise it. I read somewhere that they could enable google analytics or something. Not sure they still can but it's free to ask :P Hunter789 00:28, January 20, 2012 (UTC)
 * You can check out basic page stats via the API here. The page ID can be found by viewing the source on a page and look for wgArticleId. You can also view the top 5000 pages here. Of course, you'll need to change the wiki name to your wiki. If you want more specific stats on individual pages, you could use a sitemeter code. 04:09, January 20, 2012 (UTC)

(resetting indent) Thanks cook. From what I see, the counter value there is the number of times the page has been accessed since it's creation, am I right? That's too bad we can't specify a time span for that value. I guess this could be used to make a diff between 2 periods, but one would have to keep track of the numbers on a regular basis (with a bot, most likely); that would require a few hours to do, but I'd get the information I need.

And about sitemeter, perhaps that'd be doable, but I don't really like the idea of using an external service.

Thanks again!

Hunter789 18:48, January 21, 2012 (UTC)