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'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!
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 :)
Integrate Google Maps into Locations Page, as it is done on StatCounter.com
It would be very usefull to have a keyword filter.
Frequently I want to check if a specific referer has drained users to my sites, but currently I have to check one after another, clicking on Next. Not really a quick way to do it...
Maybe not only for referers but also for keywords.
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.
bars and pies aren't always the best way to represent.
For each stats it would be good to have an icon that let you swith to anoter kind of view (like in google analytics)
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.
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
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 :-)
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.
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.
Bonjour,
J'aui créé un nouveau thème, mais il a fallu modifier les fivhiers .class.php du rep core/include/graphs/. Conséquence, ces couleurs sont communes à tous les thèmes.
Pourrait-on inclure le dossier "graphs" dans le répertoire du thème, et / ou dans celui du thème défaut, pour y faire appel si absent du thème en cours) ?
Ainsi chaque changement de thème pourrait aussi changer les couleurs des graphs.
Bon courage aux développeurs.