Capturing information for customers such a referral URL and conversion

Question

I was hoping to create my own in-house analytics so I tell my customers how many visits their company page got on my site and which URL they came from. I am coding this in Python (Flask) and I wondered if anyone could tell me what is the standard, or sensible approach to this problem.

I think it might be to have some sort of Redis queue which is triggered when a visitor comes and then this information is added to the database later so the site doesn't seem slow.

Answer 1

The standard, and sensible approach is to use Google Analytics. If you must roll your own, you have one of two approaches. JavaScript that is executed on every page (like GA) and pulls this kind of info into a DB. The second approach is parsing log files on the server. Awstats is a good bet for that.