Rants on web development

Creating your own EE2 statistics gathering plugin using jQuery

Every website owner loves gathering statistics. Always nice to see that your amount of weekly visitors went up from 10 to a staggering 12, right? That is of course why it’s pretty rare these days to find a website that doesn’t rely on some statistics tool like for example (the very popular) Google Analytics. While it might be a massive undertaking to actually build yourself something like Google’s service, it is not that hard to gather your own statistics using a very simple plugin and some jQuery magic. You can even do some neat and unique things that will most likely impress (or enrage) your website’s visitors and that aren’t (to my knowledge) possible with third-party services.