Node Extended Stats

Drupal via the core Statistics module allows you to collect node view counts for the current day (daycount) and for 'all-time' (totalcount). This module was developed to allow you to define additional timeperiods in addition to the ones provided by the Statistics module. By enabling this module you can track node view and comment counts for shorter timeperiods such as 4 hours or for longer timeperiods such as 1 week or 1 month.

In order to make the collection of this data more useful I have also included simple Views integration that allows you to present a node's view count or comment count as a Views field and/or use the node's view count or comment count as a Views sort.

Installation & Configuration

1. Copy the Node Extended Stats module files to your Drupal modules directory (e.g. /sites/all/modules)
2. To install, enable the Node Extended Stats module on the Drupal modules page /admin/build/modules
3. Once the Node Extended Stats module has been installed you can configure the settings at /admin/settings/node_extended_stats
   1. Select the timeperiods that you would like to collect node view counts and comment counts for.
   2. Select how many nodes to recheck view and comment counts for on each cron run.
4. To view the most frequently viewed or commented on content go to the reports page at /admin/logs/node_extended_stats

Views Integration

If you wish to utilize a node's view or comment count in Views you can enable the Node Extended Stats Views module.

1. To install, enable the Node Extended Stats Views module on the Drupal modules page /admin/build/modules
2. Create a new view or edit an existing view. If your view uses Table or List view you can add fields to your view for a node's view or comment count for each timeperiod you specified in the settings page for the Node Extended Stats module.

   Example: In the drop down for Views fields you would see the following field options if you have a defined timeperiod of 1 week.
   
   'Node Extended Stats: Hits in last 1 week'
   'Node Extended Stats: Comments in last 1 week'

3. If you wish to use a node's view or comment count as a Views sort option you can add the sort option to your view.

Important Notes

If you have a high traffic site and/or use long time periods for view and comment counts then understand that the raw data tables for collecting the view and comment count data could grow quite large.

It's highly recommended that high traffic sites that are using MySQL use the InnoDB engine for the tables in this module as the row-level locking feature of InnoDB will allow for better performance than the table-level locking of MyIASM tables in MySQL.

Credits

This module was developed in part for the Beijinger website
http://www.thebeijinger.com