#analytics.go

##Overview If you want web analytics, you can use one or more of several third party services. Analytics.go is a simple performant open source application that covers some common use cases.

##Use cases

• How many page views am I getting? (Sometimes it's difficult to tell with varnish)
• On which URIs?
• What percentage of users are still on IE x?
• Which content do users click on?

##About the project

• Uses go (golang) to process requests, via a RESTful API.
• Uses a postgresql database. The database design is purposefully simple in order to be efficient with writes.
• Uses javascript to submit posts.

##How to use

• As mentioned in About the project, analytics.go uses postgresql. Create a user and database for analytics.
• cd /path/to/some/directory
• git clone https://github.com/roberttstephens/analytics.go.git
• cd analytics.go
• nano config/db.json #Configure with your database credentials.
• nano config/app.json
• go build -o analytics
• ./analytics #Runs on port 8080 by default. Change in config/app.json