Item674: WebStatistic does not work properly

Statistics for a web do not work as expected. For example forcing a renew on WebStatistics caused a decreasing of topic views from 1588 to 1231.

Also triggering statistics manually by URL (statistics/Community?logdate=200901) will cause empty topic saves and contributors.

-- AndreUlrich - 06 Jan 2009

I noticed that the link at the end of the page shown by the refresh script points to the WebStatistics topic in a different web (if I recall correctly, the Main web). When I navigated to the topic for the correct web, then it appeared the data had been updated. The output for the refresh script should be corrected to point to the actual topic that was updated. This problem is no longer present.

-- IsaacLin - 06 Jan 2009

Documented the behaviour when clicking on force update:

• Statistic-before-update.png:
  

• Statistic-after-update.png:
  

-- AndreUlrich - 17 Mar 2009

I suspect you are not comparing apples with apples. Statistics are generated on foswiki.org, and therefore use the logfiles on that site. If a statistics update is forced on trunk.foswiki.org, it will count the stats from that site's logfile.

I checked the statistics generated for the Tasks web, and AFAICT there is nothing broken except that.

-- CrawfordCurrie - 17 Mar 2009

Thanks Crawford, you are right. Thought I initial did it on foswiki.org (not trunk) to get some statistics. Good to know this works again!

-- AndreUlrich - 17 Mar 2009