Article / 28th May 2008

In The Pursuit Of Shiny Web Stats

Being a very visual person, I naturally wanted a nice way of visualising the traffic lastgraph gets (especially as I nurse it through the initial round of bugs, most of which have gone). The ever-wonderful gltail always helps, but the same author has gone one further and come up with gltrail:

It draws paths between pages visited, and looks pretty nice when visualising the lastgraph logs. It's also incredibly tempting to put it on a large screen in my room, the only problem being that I lack a large screen. And enough room.

In a related note, it would be nice if there were some sort of AJAXy, real-time, web-based statistics like gltail; anyone know of any? Someone must have put that element to good use by now...