Beyond Simple Counters: How to Design a Professional PV/UV Tracking System for Your Website
Struggling with how to efficiently track daily Page Views (PV) and Unique Visitors (UV) in your database? A simple `UPDATE table SET pv = pv + 1` quickly becomes a performance bottleneck. This article dives into a professional and scalable design for a PV/UV tracking system, covering everything from a fundamental two-tier table architecture to privacy-compliant IP hashing and extracting business value from User-Agents, helping you build a high-performance, data-rich analytics system.
The Ultimate Guide to Seamlessly Switching from Baidu Tongji to Google Analytics 4 in Vue 3
Switching from Baidu Tongji to Google Analytics (GA4) in a Vue 3 SPA project can seem complex. This article provides an elegant, modular solution to refactor your existing setup and integrate GA4 using best practices. We'll create a dedicated GA module, leverage Vue Router's navigation guards for automatic page view tracking, and ensure the code runs only in production, resulting in a clean and maintainable analytics migration.
Building a Bulletproof PHP Analytics System: From DB Schema to Self-Healing Cron Jobs
This article provides a comprehensive walkthrough of building an accurate and robust website analytics system. Starting with the common problem of duplicate sitewide UV counts, we design a scalable database schema and iteratively develop an efficient PHP statistics script. Key topics include performance optimization via in-memory processing, early filtering of bot traffic, and designing a fault-tolerant cron job that automatically backfills missing data. This serves as a complete practical guide for creating a reliable data analysis system.