[thelist] Counting downloads via hyperlink
Max Schwanekamp
lists at neptunewebworks.com
Mon Jul 24 11:32:30 CDT 2006
> From: Peter Brunone (EasyListBox.com)
> Do you have access to the logs? If so, it
> would seem trivial to parse the log file for the filename and
> confirm the status (200) of the request...
>
> From: "Tom Dell'Aringa"
> I have a link to some PDFs people can download. I'd like to
> easily track how
> many times the document is actually downloaded. My web stats
> can show me
> page accesses but not idividual clicks. Does anyone know how I can
> accomplish this? This is a wordpress blog so PHP is available.
Alternatively you can make a script to track the click and then serve up the
PDF. It would be a trivial script. Probably there's a WP plugin to manage
downloads too (GIYF...e.g.:
http://www.google.com/search?q=wordpress+plugin+%22download+manager%22
)
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Max Schwanekamp
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