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piskedi
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Posted 12/02/04 - 01:29 PM:	#1
Can you help me with two questions: 1)I'm modifying my links directory as a kind of toplist and want to detect and show if a link is currently in a rising/falling trend.For this, I need to compare the number of link hits in the past two days. How can I create a variable, or store data for "the hits link received yesterday" and "the day before"? When {LINKHITSOUTTEMP} is set to 1 day, can it be used in some way for this purpose? Any ideas will be greatly appreciated. 2){LINKHITSOUTIPS} variable.(Searched the forum and the manual but couldn't find anything,sorry if I missed it.) Does it count the unique number of hits from each visitor? Edited by piskedi on 12/02/04 - 03:14 PM

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Posted 12/03/04 - 01:43 AM:	#2
1) It'll give you hits since the last reset, which would be every 24 hours, yes. I don't know that this will be useful for a trend, since for much of the day it'll have very little data (if it resets at 5 AM, then at 6 AM a link may have a value of 1 there, which isn't really much of a trend to go by). 2) I believe it just stores the IP addresses of clicks in order to prevent them from being re-counted from the same person more often than you want them to be. Edited by Paul on 12/03/04 - 01:45 AM
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Posted 12/03/04 - 11:19 AM:	#3
What I mean by a "rising/falling trend" is not any sophisticated statistics, of course This is what I'm trying to do, like some toplists do: Let's assume a link got 6 hits yesterday. -If it gets 7 hits today(rising), an "arrow up" will be shown with it the next day. -If it gets 5 hits today(falling), it'll display an "arrow down". -If the number of hits is 6, the same as yesterday, it'll display an equal sign. I can do this by using statements like X>Y...up.gif X...equal.gif..etc. So I need to compare the last two days hits, but I don't know how to obtain the number of hits for yesterday and the day before. I have got more than 100 links on my index page, moving up and down by hits out all the time. If I can display their "up" or "down" positions as I've mentioned, it'll look like the stock exchange board Actually this is how I want it to look like. I'll be glad if you share any ideas about "hits yesterday" and "the day before"..

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Posted 12/04/04 - 09:50 AM:	#4
By the way, I've added two new links to the directory, and {LINKHITSOUTPERDAY} showed 688 and 590 for them at first, without a single click! Now everytime I refresh the page I see those values decreasing every minute. They were 32 and 40 at last, don't know why but it's really funny

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Posted 12/06/04 - 11:13 AM:	#5
There must have been a click. 688 would be a normal value for one click over a small number of seconds. Do remember, by the way, that hits out per day is not a daily trend but an overall average.
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Posted 12/06/04 - 11:54 AM:	#6
Yes, now it's clear..I thought hits were divided straight into the number of days. I had forgotten that days were stated in seconds. LINKHITSOUTPERDAY is not a daily trend, but as I've mentioned, I have to compare LINKHITSOUTTEMP(set to 1 day) to a past day's value to detect an increase or decrease in hits. But there's no such link variable. So for now, I compare {..perday} to {..outtemp} and obtain a status of the link, if it received more or less hits than its own average(which is not so meaningful). Every clue or bright ideas are welcome

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