This project allows one to count stuff over HTTP, then graph it, also over HTTP.

It is very alpha, but potentially useful to some now.

#Required Technologies A redis server A WSGI server.

#Credits

This product includes GeoLite data created by MaxMind, available from http://maxmind.com/

Jake, for some work on this. LWB, for some ideas.

#Deloyment

Best way to try this out: Signup to heroku. Install heroku toolbelt. git clone this repo. run heroku.sh

#How to Use ##Recording Data

hit /record with a HTTP GET.

There are several features that make sense when a user's browser is hitting countr. ###GeoIP By passing geoip=true in your record request, countr will automatically lookup the client's IP address in the included MaxMind database, then extract the client's country, region and city, including them as dimensions.

###Transparent Pixels For some tracking, pixels, also known as web bugs are often utilized. To create your own pixel with countr, create a countr record URL, but change the "/record" to "/pixel". Countr will then return a transparent 1px * 1px gif. Include this on your web pages in an tag.

###Redirects If you wish to track traffic through countr, it can be made to issue a redirect to an arbritary URL. Simply pass "redirect_url": "any_url" as a dimension, then a 302 redirect will be issued to "any_url".

##Displaying Data Accessing /graph.html displays a synamically updating graph. The desired dimension and metrics can be specified as get parameters, as well as the time period that you wish to display.

The graph is expressed as an element. Duplicating the page, then creating more elements would result in multiple graphs on one page.

#Known bugs

For geoip, country works, but city and region do not work.