I am working on html website which uses no database just information to be displayed. Can i count the number of visits the website gets without using database. And how will i get the count whether through some code or through my hosting admin?
Thanks in advance.
There are free sites on the internet that give you the code to put an invisible tracking counter on your website .
You make an account with them and log in to check all your website stats
Google Analytics would be the way to go. It's free and very powerful!
If you need to show some of your traffic data somewhere on your website, you might want to consider using the Analytics Core Reporting API to fetch the data from your Analytics account.
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I am working on a social network app from scratch,
I designed my database (choosing Mysql) to store and retrieve data
The problem starts when I am posting videos and photos and when data become larger and larger when I am waiting to view news feeds (depending on sql query that brings the last posts from friends ans Pages).
The question is :
How can I manage and handle the big data, and how can I make the news feeds service more efficient ?
What do you think of using (Real-time) Databases from Firebase?
If you're thinking about putting up Firebase as your choice for your database, then there's nothing wrong with that. Firebase realtime database is a very secure and great option.
Firebase gives you functionality like analytics, databases, messaging and crash reporting so you can move quickly and focus on your users.
Firebase is built on Google infrastructure and scales automatically, for even the largest apps.
And on top of that, many great apps do use Firebase as their backend.
I'd say to know more, you can just start with a demo project on Firebase to learn how the things happen with Firebase, and after learning, start using it as backend for your social app.
Just go to Firebase Console and start with your own project. To learn how to use Firebase, do refer Firebase docs and if stuck, StackOverflow is always there.
If you want to get some inner details, I have some repositories on GitHub, that might help you in understanding about Firebase and the security rules and other important things.
Demo App
Firebase Security Rules
I am looking to export the analytics data towards a database sql. Do you know one tools who could help me?
Do you know how I can see on Google analytics the traffic resulting from a particular URL??
Thank you all!
You have several options:
UI export: in the top/right corner of your reports you should have an option to download data in various formats (XLS, CSV...)
API: you can use the reporting API to get it out in a programmatic/automated way
One thing you won't be able to do with the free version no matter what you try:
Reconstruct the entire analytics data: whether with the UI or API, you're limited to querying only 7 dimensions maximum at a time (eg ga:country, ga:deviceCategory etc...), and cannot combine certain dimensions together (no official list available, it's trial and error to find out), whereas there are dozens of dimensions available.
So the question for you becomes:
How much resources do I want to invest into partially reverse-engineering Google Analytics vs. the value it brings me vs. what it would cost to get alternative analytics solutions?
I found a cloud based solution which exports raw google analytics data to MySQL database. Setup is simple, all you need to do is add your Google Analytics connection and a database to which the data needs to be exported.
MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQL Server and BigQuery are the supported destinations. It creates a few custom dimensions in your Google Analytics account and Tag in Google Tag Manager to send hits to Google Analytics. Data is exported from Google Analytics to the selected destination every day.
I have been using it for last three months now. Hope this helps.
Exporting the analytics data is a thorny one.
My understanding is that paid GA usage allows the export of all collected GA data.
But free usage does not.
For free usage, all you are going to be able to do, realistically, is to create a report over your GA data (in Data Studio or Google Sheets) that contains the rows and columns you want, and then collect this information and squirt it into a SQL table. You are also liable to come up against sampling.
Re traffic from particular URL, the news is better: just filter on Hostname and Page.
I need to store the IP address, the User-Agent of the client who is requesting a particular web page, the name of the webpage being requested and the request time. I am planning to store the information in a table in the database(MySQL). But, the problem I can for-see is that every time the page is requested there will be a database entry, and in time it would take up a huge amount of space.
Does analytics tools like Google Analytics already store these information (IP-Address, User-Agent, Requested-Webpage-Name, Time) that I can access anytime in future (Say, i need to check the client's IP and User-Agent who viewed a particular page within a particular timeframe)? If not, is my approach the right way to do it? If not, what is the right way?
I found that nginx does this out of the box with it's access logs, which are stored in /var/logs/nginx/access.log. So, i just need to pare the access log data, using various tools available online.
I see many tutos to download GA data to a google spreadsheet and refresh it automatically
but none to export data into mysql table(s)
Is it possible ?
If yes where can i find tutos or a freelancer with skills on this subject
If yes is it possible to store the data of several UA in the same table ?
Thx
Yes, you can do that with the Google Analytics core reporting api and you can use their query explorer to see what data you can pull from it.
Also here is all their libraries and sample code that you can use as a tutorial. As far as hiring someone, I would check out the job board here or odesk.com.
if you don't want to play around with code and development, just go ahead and use Analytics Canvas that provides easy data import via API from Google Analytics, which you can then easily export to SQL / MySQL / any other database. All using simple and intuitive graphic interface.
I usually use another solution that does not require coding — Skyvia tool: Google Analytics and MySQL Integration. It allows me to create a copy of Google Analytics report data in MySQL and keep it up-to-date with little to no configuration efforts. I don’t even need to prepare the schema — Skyvia can automatically create a table for my report data. You can load 10000 records per month for free — this is enough for me.
I'm trying to learn how to work with twitter api. I'm still a little confused. If I want users to tweet using my input text boxes on my site, do I still need a database for those tweets? Or does the api handle the storage for the tweets?
Thank you!
It is all about your requirement and then your design pattern. Infact You don't need any database to store tweets. In your case where you just want to tweet, You can do it without DB. Infact twitter-rest-api https://dev.twitter.com/docs/api is very good.
If you need to made frequent api call from your app, you can use caching to avoid too many frequent calls. For reference https://github.com/atsiddiqui/ReTweeted
You do not need a database to store the tweets. Twitter stores them.
Once you use the Twitter API to send the tweet data to Twitter.com, it is stored on Twitter.com's storage system. So, it is in a way handled by the api. It does not matter to Twitter whether you stored them in your own database or not.
But it is good practice to store the information in you own server database for record purpose. For example, you might want to know the statistics -- how many users use your service, what is the average use of it.
It may help investigating issues (sometimes legal) like when an user complains that your site published offensive tweet to his account. Then, you can track and check your database.
There are many more cases when you want to see the records in your system.