Overview

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.

Requirements

• Django's session framework installed
• South (if you want to use the packaged migrations)

Download

pip install django-tracking2

Setup

Add tracking to your project's INSTALLED_APPS setting:

INSTALLED_APPS = (
    ...
    'tracking',
    ...
)

If you use Django 1.7 tracking app should follow the app with your user model

Add tracking.middleware.VisitorTrackingMiddleware to your project's MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES before the SessionMiddleware:

MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES = (
    ...
    'tracking.middleware.VisitorTrackingMiddleware',
    'django.contrib.sessions.middleware.SessionMiddleware',
    ...
)

Django 1.7

Django 1.7 brings changes to the way database migrations are handled. If you do not use database migrations you should not be worried. If you use south and have not upgraded to django 1.7, you'll have to upgrade to south==1.0.

With south 1.0, south-based migrations are found in the south_migrations directory while django 1.7+ migrations are in the migrations directory.

Settings

TRACK_AJAX_REQUESTS - If True, AJAX requests will be tracked. Default is False

TRACK_ANONYMOUS_USERS - If False, anonymous users will not be tracked. Default is True

TRACK_PAGEVIEWS - If True, individual pageviews will be tracked.

TRACK_IGNORE_URLS - A list of regular expressions that will be matched against the request.path_info (request.path is stored, but not matched against). If they are matched, the visitor (and pageview) record will not be saved. Default includes 'favicon.ico' and 'robots.txt'. Note, static and media are not included since they should be served up statically Django's static serve view or via a lightweight server in production. Read more here

TRACK_IGNORE_STATUS_CODES - A list of HttpResponse status codes that will be ignored. If the HttpResponse object has a status_code in this blacklist, the pageview record will not be saved. For example,

TRACK_IGNORE_STATUS_CODES = [400, 404, 403, 405, 410, 500]

TRACK_REFERER - If True, referring site for all pageviews will be tracked. Default is False

TRACK_QUERY_STRING - If True, query string for all pageviews will be tracked. Default is False

Views

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.

Available URLs

• / - overview of all visitor activity, includes a time picker for filtering.

Templates

• tracking/dashboard.html - for the dashboard page
• tracking/snippets/stats.html - standalone content for the dashboard page (simplifies overriding templates)