On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 06:40:18PM +0200, Otto Kekäläinen wrote:
Hello,
Is it even at all necessary to keep the stats password protected? What in the stats don't you want the public to read?
Hi, AFAIK the stats are password protected because... they've always been like that; so I'm forwarding the question to team@ to have a better answer. (team@: we are talking about the statistics generated by awstats for the FSFE websites).
According to AWStats website it is possible to generate a PDF version of the file (static generation with htmldoc). A simple cron script could mail that to the list.
Re the pdf format, I did some tests while (re)setting up awstats on our servers, but I couldn't find a way to produce both dynamic reports and static reports (be it HTML or PDF) with the same configuration file (there was some problem with displayin icons, don't remember exactly now).
What about the statistics for pdfreaders.org? Could it be public? Or at least the referrer part of the stats? I'd think it would be nice for anybody who links to pdfreaders.org from their website to also be able to see how the traffic at pdfreaders.org increases. (=> positive feed back loop)
Again, I think it's up to the pdfreaders.org team to decide, so I'm forwarding this question too (summary: should the web statistics for pdfreaders.org be publicly available, or should they continue to be password-protected?)
Cri