Ottered Designs

As pointed out before, Menthol is to be a multiple platform, multi language, AJAX (Asynchronous Javascript And XML) enhanced web statistics system.

As part of the development of such a system, I need to produce a series of feature sets for the system. So in this blogging I’m outlining some of the possible features ready for comment and implementation.

Logging

• logging to its own db
• tracks referers
• tracks ip
• tracks page visited
• tracks time visited

Statistics

• monthly, annual, weekly and daily page visits
• location visted from
• total and unique visiting IP addresses
• total and unique page hits
• previous 24 hour total hits and unique page hits
• monthly, weekly, daily operating system summary
• monthly, weekly, daily browser summary
• monthly, weekly, daily spider summary

Display & Skinning

• SparkLines (lines)
• SparkLines (bars)
• Pie charts
• Bar charts

AJAX

• sorting of results
• updating of graphs

Configuration

• Control panel
• Colour
• Graph sizes
• CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) for general styling

Languages

• English (implemented by default)
• Welsh
• French
• German
• Translations added as volunteers appear

Platforms

• Web Languages
  • PHP (primary implemetation)
  • Python
  • ASP.NET (VB)
  • ASP.NET (C#)
  • Ruby
  • Java
  • Cold Fusion
  • Perl
• Operating Systems
  • Linux
  • Windows
  • Others?
• Web servers
  • Apache 1 and 2
  • IIS
  • Others?

Extensions

• Possibly add a method to extend the system with “plug-ins”
• Creating of plug-ins and widgets for:
  • WordPress
  • Joomla!
  • Other blog and CMS