[FIXED] How do I find the number of visitors to my web hosted django application?

Issue

I have a django application hosted on a server running on Apache + Ubuntu. I deployed the application using mod_wsgi. Is there any way to find out the number of visitors to my web site.

I realize that this query might have little to do with django and more do with the server. Any help would be appreciated.

Solution

Why not just use Google Analytics? You can easily monitor user behavior, traffic source, time spend on each page, etc.

If you really want to do this with Django you could write a context processor to record each request, but then you would have to write the user's IP and check if the user has not visited before and this would be incredibly imprecise since there might be different users sharing the same IP, etc.

Answered By - Raphael

Answer Checked By - Marilyn (PHPFixing Volunteer)