We're big fans of web stats packages, and Shaun Inman's powerful and flexible
Mint is definitely near the top of our list. While Mint and its various plugins can watch all manner of web stats and there are even
widgets to check some stats from the comforts of your desktop, Tyler Hall decided to go one step further and has built a
pepper (i.e. - a plugin for Mint) simply titled
php-Growl that can send some Mint statistics to
Growl, the Mac OS X system notification utility. While it can take some configuring (the comments at the
Peppermint Tea post where we found this offer a good overview), this sounds like a handy way to keep an eye on stats without having to furiously refresh your Mint page or run yet another Dashboard widget.
php-Growl is being hosted at
Google Code and is distributed under the
MIT License.
Tags: dashboard, growl, mac, mint, os x, OsX, php, php growl, PhpGrowl, shaun inman, ShaunInman, statistics, web stats, WebStats
Comments
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Subscribe to commentsAndrew KempApr 28th 2007 11:34PM
What is Mint Stats?
Ipod SkinsApr 29th 2007 11:50PM
I love widgets.
http://www.viperskins.com
Dave ChartierApr 30th 2007 10:13AM
#1: I linked the word 'Mint' in the first sentence of this post to a few other posts we've written about Mint to help you learn about what Mint is. Here's that link:
http://www.downloadsquad.com/tag/mint
But in short: Mint is a commercial web stats package you can install to collect statistics on your website or blog, like how many visitors you're getting, where they came from, what pages or posts are the most popular, how many times they've downloaded a file you're offering, etc.