Create traffic analytics from log files. Developed by Anna Svensson.
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You can create traffic analytics at the command line. This allows you to evaluate page views, popular content, popular downloads and search queries. Open a terminal window. Go to your installation folder, where the file yellow.php is. Type php yellow.php traffic, you can add optional days, date and location. This will create traffic analytics and show them on screen.
Creating traffic analytics at the command line:
php yellow.php traffic
Creating traffic analytics at the command line, different number of days:
php yellow.php traffic 1
php yellow.php traffic 7
php yellow.php traffic 30
Creating traffic analytics at the command line, different dates:
php yellow.php traffic 30 2021-06-01
php yellow.php traffic 30 2021-09-01
php yellow.php traffic 30 2021-12-01
Creating traffic analytics at the command line, different locations:
php yellow.php traffic 30 2021-06-01 /wiki/
php yellow.php traffic 30 2021-06-01 /blog/
php yellow.php traffic 30 2021-06-01 /search/
Creating traffic analytics at the command line, different locations for the current date:
php yellow.php traffic 30 - /wiki/
php yellow.php traffic 30 - /blog/
php yellow.php traffic 30 - /search/
Configuring different traffic analytics in the settings:
TrafficAnalytics: view, content, download, search
TrafficAnalytics: view, content, download, search, referring
TrafficAnalytics: view, request, download, missing, error
Configuring different spam filters in the settings:
TrafficSpamFilter: bot|crawler|spider|checker
TrafficSpamFilter: bot|crawler|spider|checker|facebook.com|youtube.com|instagram.com
TrafficSpamFilter: bot|crawler|spider|checker|www.google|duckduckgo.com|bing.com|baidu.com
The following settings can be configured in file system/extensions/yellow-system.ini:
TrafficStaticUrl = URL of the website when using the command line
TrafficLogDirectory = directory with web server log files
TrafficAccessFile = file name as regular expression
TrafficAnalytics = traffic analytics shown, supported analytics
TrafficLinesMax = number of lines per analytics
TrafficDays = number of days
TrafficSpamFilter = spam filter as regular expression, none to disable
The following traffic analytics are supported:
view = graph with page views per day/hour
request = graph with HTTP requests per day/hour
content = list of popular content
download = list of popular downloads
search = list of search queries
referring = list of referring sites
missing = list of missing pages
error = list of error pages
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