Feature Proposals » Most viewed and most updated webs on SiteStatistics

Motivation

With MostPopularWebsInSiteStatistics, SiteStatistics has the "Top Web Views" column. At the same token, the list of most updated webs should be there.

Description and Documentation

Instead of adding another column to the table, the list of most updated webs will be put on the "Webs updated" column. For consistency and compactness, the list of most viewed webs will move to the "Webs viewed" column eliminating the "Top Web Views" column.

Month	Webs Total	Webs Viewed	Webs updated	Topics Total
2013-09	4215	3080 133348 Mercury   45357 Venus   40304 Earth   26624 Mars   26569 Jupiter   26461 Saturn	179 398 Saturn 336 Jupiter 213 Mars 185 Earth 172 Venus 155 Mercury	72725

To make use of MostPopularWebsInSiteStatistics after upgrade, you need to modify the existing SiteStatistics. This proposal still needs slight modification to the existing SiteStatistics, but it's only with the template row (the second row of the table having | <!--statDate--> | ...). Specifically One space preceding <!--statWebsViews--> and <!--statWebsUpdated--> needs to be removed.

Given TopViewersOnStatistics, it's logical for tools/cvt_stats_twiki6 of TopViewersOnStatistics to do the above modification in addition to the column addition.

The second line onwards on "Webs Viewed" and "Webs Updated" columns have the numbers of views and updates, which are different in nature from the first line values. This will be clearly described under the table.

Those additional lines are confirmed not to affect ChartPlugin picking up the number at the beginning of those columns.

The number of webs listed is specified by {Stats}{SiteTopViews} and {Stats}{SiteTopUpdates}. Both are 0 by default, in which case, the webs lists are not put on SiteStatistics.

Examples

The following setting (default) suppresses the lists of most viewed webs and most updated webs.

$TWiki::cfg{Stats}{SiteTopViews} = 0;
$TWiki::cfg{Stats}{SiteTopUpdates} = 0;

The following setting specifies that 20 most viewed webs and 20 most updated webs are listed.

$TWiki::cfg{Stats}{SiteTopViews} = 20;
$TWiki::cfg{Stats}{SiteTopUpdates} = 20;

Impact

Implementation

-- Contributors: Hideyo Imazu - 2013-09-11

Discussion

Looks good. A table row is already taller than one line due to the "Top Contributors" column, so this new feature will not use more screen real estate.

Make sure this works also when the ChartPlugin is used to visualize the statistics data.

-- Peter Thoeny - 2013-09-11

One point of confusion might be the units for the numbers. The first number in "Webs Viewed" is the number of webs viewed in that month. The numbers below for the top webs seem to be topic views in each web? It needs to be documented.

-- Peter Thoeny - 2013-09-11

I've addressed those points in the description above.

-- Hideyo Imazu - 2013-09-12

This feature is accepted by JerusalemReleaseMeeting2013x09x12.

-- Peter Thoeny - 2013-09-12