I manage a large CodeIgniter 3 site that keeps track of page views by writing to a database table.
This sort of works fine, however we're getting scalability issues as it's now has over 3 million rows tracking roughly 600,000 pages. I'm not convinced it's even working as it should be as there should be vastly more page views than this - google analytics has recorded over 4 million hits in the last year alone and the site has been running for 4 years.
The number of hits is shown on each page (content is user contributed and they like to see how their uploads are doing)
I've got a few options:
- Re-write so that it aggregates the pages views at the end of each month and accurately records the hits
- Find an off-site analytics tracking solution
- Somehow integrate with Google Analytics to pull the publicly displayed stats from there
- Use a CI library that handles all of this properly
- Somehow integrate with AWStats which is already on the server
How have others in a similar situation handled this issue? Can anyone point me towards which solution might best suit the situation?
