django-tracking2 tracks the length of time visitors and registered users spend on your site. Although this will work for websites, this is more applicable to web applications with registered users. This does not replace (nor intend) to replace client-side analytics which is great for understanding aggregate flow of page views.
Note: This is not a new version of django-tracking. These apps have very different approaches and, ultimately, goals of tracking users. This app is about keeping a history of visitor sessions, rather than the current state of the visitor.
- Django's session framework installed
- South (if you want to use the packaged migrations)
pip install django-tracking2
Add tracking
to your project's INSTALLED_APPS
setting:
INSTALLED_APPS = (
...
'tracking',
...
)
Add tracking.middleware.VisitorTrackingMiddleware
to your project's
MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES
before the SessionMiddleware
:
MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES = (
...
'tracking.middleware.VisitorTrackingMiddleware',
'django.contrib.sessions.middleware.SessionMiddleware',
...
)
TRACK_AJAX_REQUESTS
- If True, AJAX requests will be tracked. Default
is False
To view aggregate data about all visitors and per-registered user stats, do the following:
Include tracking.urls
in your urls.py
:
urlpatterns = patterns('',
...
url(r'^tracking/', include('tracking.urls')),
...
)
These urls are protected by a custom Django permission tracking.view_visitor
.
Thus only superusers and users granted this permission can view these pages.
/dashboard/
- overview of all visitor activity
tracking/dashboard.html
- for the dashboard pagetracking/snippets/stats.html
- standalone content for the dashboard page (simplifies overriding templates)