traffic counter

[thelastinline]

is there some one who can create a traffic counter that displays the numerical number of people who have visited our forums?

[Kami]

I do not have the ability to make this for you personally, but I did want to chime in to levelset expectations: while a plugin to track visitors might be possible, it would not be able to differentiate "people" traffic from visits from bots (like search engine indexers).

You may also want to be more specific in what sort of data you want this plugin to give you -- "number of people" isn't specific enough. What is the date range for the number to be gathered from? What do you consider "a visit"? Are you only looking for a fast food sort of "99 Billion Served" type of output or do you want additional things to be displayed? Where do you want this information displayed on your forum, and how do you want this info to appear visually?

The more details you can provide about what you want, from function to form, the better a plugin creator can tell whether or not what you want is a) technologically possible, and b) permissible under PB's plugin development guidelines.

[Chris]

Apr 26, 2024 5:28:18 GMT -8 thelastinline said:

is there some one who can create a traffic counter that displays the numerical number of people who have visited our forums?

You should have an info center on your forum's main page that gives a breakdown of visitors to the site (unless it was removed via a theme edit). You also have the Analytics under marketing in your forum's admin panel that gives more granular details.

Plugins are prohibited from being bean counters

Oct 3, 2023 13:14:02 GMT -8 PB Support said:

Plugin Keys

You can only set() a value on a plugin key based on a user-initiated action.

Example of a prohibited plugin:
You want to count how many pageviews a user has on a forum. Every time a page is loaded, you automatically call set() on a user plugin key to increment a count.

In prior versions of Proboards' platform, website counters were a popular choice, but on newer versions, analytics provides greater forum-specific details than a counter could.