TFS stats – where do I need to include?

  • Hi,
    I have installed TFS stats to get a better picture of who is coming to my blog.
    According to TFS readme, I need to include their inc.stats.php in every page I want to be monitored. As for my blog, I thought that all I had to do is include it into the index.php.
    The problem is that *all* my visitors are going to index.php and nowhere else. I know this is wrong. I have visited a couple of entries myself, but all I get is 4 times index.php.
    I was therefore wondering where I actually need to place this inc.stats.php to monitor all entries separately. I added it to the wp.php, too, but that’s probably not the right one.
    Any ideas?

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  • Moderator James Huff

    (@macmanx)

    “According to TFS readme, I need to include their inc.stats.php in every page I want to be monitored.”
    Therefore, you have to include it in every page you want to be monitored. This includes each individual post.

    I used to just include it in index.php but from memory it doesn’t by default record the query string so needs some modification to record dynamic urls.

    Thread Starter med

    (@med)

    “Therefore, you have to include it in every page you want to be monitored. This includes each individual post.”
    Aha… any idea where I need to place the include to have it in every post?

    Can you specify pagename for that stat? So instead of index.php, can it be recorded as “Main” or “Home” or anything you specify? If not you’re out of luck. There is only one page generally for WP; Frontpage, archive, individual post are all displayed in index.php.
    And btw, am I the only one who does not know what TFS stand for?

    Thread Starter med

    (@med)

    No, as I pointed out, TFS (Twenty Four Seven = it monitors visitors and bots coming to your pages) requires to include their inc.stats.php into *every* page you want to be monitored.
    I haven’t found any workaround so far. I searched their support forum at opglossing.net, but couldn’t find anything that would resolve this issue (one WP user posted he had changed something in the include script itself, but when I wanted to do the same I found that it had already been changed by the programmers).
    Which is a pity. The tool is really great, but it’s of no use to me if I can’t track the individual entries. My provider’s default stats tool is Webalizer but it provides insufficient information on where individual visitors go when coming to my pages.

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