Optimization Page
The Optimization page will allow you to do some basic maintenance tasks related to WP Statistics.
The optimization page looks like this:
It has six tabs; Resources/Information, Export, Purging, Database, Updates and Historical.
Resources/Information
The Resources/Information page has 4 subsections to it; Resources, Version Info, File Info and Client Info.
Resources
The Resources section contains some resource usage information.
Setting
Values
Description
Memory usage in PHP
Bytes
The number of bytes of memory WordPress is currently using. This number is highly transitive and should only be used as a genera guide line. Pages like the overview page use more memory than others.
PHP Memory Limit
N/A
The maximum amount of memory that PHP will allow a script to use before terminating the script. This value is set in the php.ini file and must be set high enough to allow WP Statistics to load and manipulate data in the statistics charts.
Number of rows in the wp_statistics_useronline table
Rows
The number of rows in the users online table.
Number of rows in the wp_statistics_visit table
Rows
The number of rows in the visits table.
Number of rows in the wp_statistics_visitor table
Rows
The number of rows in the visitors table.
Number of rows in the wp_statistics_exclusions table
Rows
The number of rows in the exclusions table.
Number of rows in the wp_statistics_pages table
Rows
The number of rows in the pages table.
Number of rows in the wp_statistics_historical table
Rows
The number of rows in the historical table.
Version Info
The Version Info section contains the various versions of the software installed on your server.
Setting
Values
Description
WP Statistics Version
Version
The version of the plug-in.
PHP Version
Version
The version of PHP.
PHP Safe Mode
Yes/No
Is PHP running in safe mode. Note this is the value in php.ini, so even though PHP 5.4 and above deprecated safe mode, you may still have the value set in php.ini. If you do, you should remove it.
PHP IPv6 Enabled
Yes/No
Is PHP compiled with IPv6 support. You may see warning messages in your PHP log if it is not and you receive HTTP headers with IPv6 addresses in them.
jQuery Version
Version
The version of jQuery.
cURL Version
Version
The PHP cURL Extension version you are running. cURL is required for the GeoIP code, if it is not installed GeoIP will be disabled.If the gzopen() function is installed. gzopen() is required for the GeoIP database to be downloaded successfully.
Zlib gzopen()
Yes/No
If the gzopen() function is installed. gzopen() is required for the GeoIP database to be downloaded successfully.
File Info
The File Info section contains information about the GeoIP and browscap files. Browscap has two files, the raw ini file downloaded from browscap.org and a cache file generated by the browscap library to improve performance on loading and lookups.
Setting
Values
Description
GeoIP Database
Size/Date
The file size and date of the GeoIP database installed on your system.
browscap.ini File
Size/Date
The file size and date of the browscap.ini installed on your system.
browscap Cache File
Size/Date
The file size and date of the browscap cache file installed on your system.
Client Info
The Client Info section contains some information about your current session.
Setting
Values
Description
Client IP
IP Address
The IP address you are currently connected from.
User Agent
String
Your user agent string.
Browser
String
The detected browser you are running.
Version
String
The detected browser version you are running.
Platform
String
The detected platform you have.
Export
The Export page allows you to export the data from the database to a flat file. This is useful if you want to do additional analysis on the data or need to migrate to another statistics plug-in.
Setting
Values
Description
Export from
Table name
You can export from the three primary data tables.
Export To:
XML, CSV, TSV
The format to export to.
XML will export an XML formatted file.
CSV will export a comma separated value file.
TSV will export a tab separated value file.
Include Header Row
On/Off
Include a header row as the first line of the exported file.
Purging
The Purging page has 2 subsections to it; Data and Delete User Agent Types.
Data
The Data section allows you to purge information from the database..
Setting
Values
Description
Empty Table
Table name
This will delete ALL data from the selected tables. Only do this if you are absolutely sure you want to reset all of your statistics.
Purge records older than
Number
Deleted user statistics data older than the selected number of days. Minimum value is 30 days. Since WP Statistics 8.2 the pruned data will be summarized in to the historical database.
Purge visitors with more than
Number
Deleted user statistics data where the user has more than the defined number of hits in a day. This can be useful to clear up old data when your site has been hit by a bot.
This will remove the visitor and their hits to the site, however it will not remove individual page hits as that data is not recorded on a per use basis.
Minimum value is 10 hits.
Delete User Agent Types
The Delete User Agent Types section allows you to delete various user agent types from the database. This can be used to remove robots or other types of agents that are not real users.
Setting
Values
Description
Delete Agents
Agent name
This will delete ALL visitors with the selected agent type.
Delete Platforms
Platform name
This will delete ALL visitors with the selected platform.
