Site Meter info for clients

Site Meter interface for clients

[Paul_2000]

Hi,

I would like to create a login area for my clients that gives them site meter type stats on their pages hosted with us.

We would like to do this so we can brand the pages, rather than using a third party site meter.

I know how to use dreamweaver and create a basic website, but I have no idea how to get site meter type stats or how to create unique logins for different clients.

Can someone please point me in the right direction or mention firms that might be able to set this up for me.

Many thanks

Paul

[garann]

There are two free pieces of software - Analog and ReportMagic - that you can set up to display your users' stats in a readable format. Setting up logins for your users depends on what server you use and how secure you want their stats to be. If you typically use Dreamweaver and don't ordinarily do backend programming, that part might be a lot to take on. Setting up Analog and ReportMagic, on the other hand, is basically easy after you read a lot of documentation. You could just create unique pages for each user's stats and send them the link, rather than linking the page from anywhere on your site.

However, if your preference is to have another firm set it up, I invite you to send me a Sticky Mail. ;)

[monkeythumpa]

Google Analytics is a little more intuitive for non-Webmasters than Analog. I use both and I set up a login for my clients on Google.

[Paul_2000]

Thanks to both of you.

I guess if I want to keep the user in my branding, google is not an option. However if I am wrong please correct me.

Reportmagic looks like it could be the answer. Will it let me brand the pages?

Are there any pitfalls with Reportmagic?

Thanks for your help

[garann]

You can definitely style ReportMagic. I'm thinking the best way to do branding might be to use FIR or something, since I don't see any images in there by default, but I think there are lots of possibilities.

Here's a snippet from the documentation:

Stylesheet format

Using the Stylesheet setting in the [navigation] and [reports] sections, you can start setting styles instead of using settings like BG_Color and Font. Using stylesheets makes it easier to manage your styles and keep them consistent with the rest of your site. The stylesheet is used in the following manner:

h1: The title at the top of each report file
h2: The title of each individual report
h4: Navigation page title
th: Header columns on the data tables
td.alt1: First color option for tabled data
td.alt2: Second color option for tabled data
th.total: Style options for summary rows at bottom of tables
.fineprint: Style for time and range of report
.smallfont: Style for 'SmallFonts' option in Simple reports

When using stylesheets, any style settings you add to your settings file (such as [reports] Font) will override the styles defined in the stylesheets. If you only want to use the styles in your stylsheets, then remove all the other style settings from your settings file.

Notes on the HTML in report files

When Report Magic creates your report files, it writes all the HTML codes to a single line. This saves as much as 15% of the filesize, making the reports load faster and reducing the bandwidth they consume. Sometimes, though, you want to change the files or perhaps compare two files with diff. If you want to make the HTML more readable try the excellent tidy utility from W3C. You can download it from here, precompiled for many platforms. This will produce a more readable HTML format than any other option could do.

It's free and pretty easy to set up, so I think it's hard to find any pitfalls. You can always upgrade to something else later, and it's a pretty lean, simple solution.

[Paul_2000]

Analog 6.0 & Report magic seem to be down at the moment.

Have they now pulled this software?

I would like a bar chart over different time periods, the last 100 key words and maybe one or two other bits. It would also need unique user logins.

What do you think this would cost to get someone to set this up for me?

Many thanks

Paul