file download tracker helper/plugin ???

[eluser]dorjeduck[/eluser]
Good morning folks,

hope all are well.

I am extremely excited that I have now three downloadable files on my codeigniter driven web site available and can't help myself to check every 5 minutes through the apache access.log file how many people have already downloaded a file. Being occupied with closely looking at my google analytics pages also I was wandering if there is an easy way to make the tracking of the number of downloaded files more convenient. How would I go about to collect this information on the fly. I checked but I haven't really found something in the forum here.

Thanks in advance

martin

ps
I need a file download tracker implementation which is able to handle huge amounts downloaded files. Within only four days I have already 11 downloads!!!!