Entry 147 - FrankenStats beta

FrankenStats beta

For the longest time I have wanted to be with the kewl kids, using Shaun Inman’s ShortStat and Keegan Jones' Dashboard widget to track visitors to this site, boosting my ego and fulfilling my stats jones without the laborious task that is opening a browser. Ahh, mainlined stats is the only way to fly.

Lots of folks swear by Shortstat, and it is a great piece of code to be sure—but after my long love affair with bbclone, I found the info one can glean from the ShortStat interface just doesn’t stack up. I know, I know, one might ask “But why not just have a mint?” To that I say “I need not pay for a mint if I already have this wad of gum.”

Enter FrankenStats.

Yep, I finally got around to fleshing out a long-planned BBclone widget for Konfabulator, which, much like the current Shortstat widget shows raw hits YTD, uniques YTD, and the last couple of referrers. It uses the BBclone data, which is replete with every bit of info you could want about a visitor, so I plan to add some more stuff, like hostnames, searches, IP addresses (network-dork-am-i) and such. Anyone who wants the widget before I polish it up and ship it off to the official Konfabulator repo, drop me a line and I'll send it along.

Konfabulatin’ is fun fun fun.