Suggestions, critics, ideas on how to organize, improve the interface and the user experience
In English (Sorry I'm French) -----------
I am a webdevelopper.
For some projects I had to developp, I used PHPMV to monitor the traffic.
My problem is that my clients want to have a single admin panel for all.
If I had an API that allows me to extract the more relevant data, I could integrate it in the administration panel and combine traffic analysis with some specific data of my app.
For more specific data, the standard interface of PHPMV stays as-it.
What do you think about this ?
En français --------------------------
Je développe des applications Web.
Pour plusieurs des projets dont j'ai eu la charge, j'ai utilisé PHPMV pour suivre la fréquentation des applications.
Le problème c'est que mes clients veulent tout avoir au sein de la même interface d'administration, ce qui se comprend.
Si je disposais d'une API qui me permette d'extraire de PHPMV les données les plus significatives, je pourrais les intégrer dans l'interface d'administration et coupler l'analyse du trafic avec d'autres données propres à mon application.
Pour des fonctions plus avancées, l'interface de PHPMV resterait telle quelle.
Qu'en pensez-vous ?
It would be usefull to have a visual hint that would show week ends in graphs.
Like a gray background behind the columns.
Hi,
Actually, PHPMV2 authenticate while useing login/password stored in a table.
What about opening authentication process, in order to use another authentication method (LDAP, ...).
It would permit to do also some specific stuff like integrating PHPMV2's authentication into another process, for example integrating it in the back end of the primary web application (SSO like).
In my case, i've installed a CMS, and i'd like to use the same authentication in my CMS than in PHPMV2, in order to let PHPMV2 directly accessible into my CMS back en ; the thread talking about this here : http://www.phpmyvisites.net/forums/index.php/t/3852/0/. Please note this solution does NOT pretends to be a well done hack, but just a rapid and dirty solution...
Thanks for your comments ;)
It could be nice to have a widget that could be included in a blog, Google Home Page, Netvibes and all that pretty 2.0 applications...
It could allow users to follow their website traffic simply without having to connect to the PHPMV interface.
This widget would be customizable : colors, font family, graph or data, period (day, week, month, year), etc...
Integrate Google Maps into Locations Page, as it is done on StatCounter.com
Interface is awful. Powerful, but awful.
It's not "click and see".
Personnaly, I would have the possibility to see somes stats on one screen only...the others stats are too specific.
So, i think Phpmyvisite is enough powerful. Now, why not create a brainstorming to make phpmyvisite become a "new experience".
So, vote if you want.
instead of generation the images with the statistics on the server side, the images should be generated by a swf aplication on the client side. this saves a lot of bandwith and cpu/mem on the server.
There should be a help button for each table/graph that pop-ups some info for the values (what they mean, how they are defined how to get more details...).
I installed PMV and while I had no problems I had different colleagues that had some problems to understand what the different values represent.
Imported from the features request
http://www.phpmyvisites.net/bugtracker/?do=details&id=235
I'd love to be able to change the graphs. I don't like the bar/line graph, I'd prefer to see two bars representing the values - giving people the options to choose their own style would be cool. The current graphs are often unreadable.
it's quite boring to browse the interface to reach the only infos we like.
The first page should be customizable.
The best way would be to display beside each table or graph a link "display on dashboard".
So we can have on one page the few infos we check all the time, just one clic/scroll away!
Hi, i'm analyzing my site with teh w3c validator but it that the document type does not allow element "noscript".
I think PHPMyVisits must be w3c XHTML validator friendly.
The javascript menus sometimes stick on, and create a nuisance of themselves, when sliding sideways from menu to menu. It is one of the only features besides interface enhancements that I'd like to see fixed.
Create a timeout for menus so they close automatically.
I've been using PHPMyVisites for a while. As designer and programmer it's difficult to make my modifications (even future extensions and plugins). Smarty is good but I don't think it's the choice for a lightweight web application. It's bloated and far far away from "design friendly".
So I'm trying to migrate my version of PHPMV to TBS (Tinybutstrong.com). A Template System I've found on the Web, tested and really liked. (I think it will be 300/400Kb smaller than the original PHPMV).
I'd like to see a PHPMV version running it in the future.
Please, considere this suggestion. Thanks.
Hi Guys,
I found your tools by coincidense, installed it and really do like it.
The only thing I'm missing is something like a plain listing of all visitor IPs, timestamp of access and (not really necessary) the referenced page for a given time frame (like actual month, week, day) below the source folder. Any plans for something like that?
You have done a great job!
Michael :-)
In the admin part when you want to exclude an ip er a range of ip it would be helpfull to display the current user ip.
This is not difficult and a quick addition that may enhance user experience for admins :)