I used this module inside Jomsocial Group's and profiles. The module installed and worked without fail. I had a slight problem with the module's css being loaded which appears to be an issue with the module itself as other modules were fine.

Regardless of where the problem lied, Peter was fabulous providing support in less than one day and continued to provide support with my numerous questions day after day. Peter went beyond my expectations and suggested additional ways I could meet my needs. Of course all of this was done free of charge.

In the end, I am delighted with the product and overwhelmed with the support.

Well done and thanks Peter.

This is a very easy to use module. Install, get the counter ID from their website and go. Unfortunately, there are too many negative things for me to use it at this time.

Good:
- easy and fast to install
- records the statistics on a remote server saving performance of your server / database since your server is not writing to tables each page view
- clean, simple and effective user interface
- fast reporting server using ajax

Bad:
- I believe, forgive me if my understanding is incorrect. I don't really know programming. That said, I believe the logo and application javascript are pulled from a remote server. The installed module's job is to just call that script and sit back. This could potentially be a security threat should that javascript change and request information such as user id and pw. Perhaps this is not possible?
- Data is not secure as it does not require an ID / PW to look at the statistics. A competitor can easily click from the counter ID logo (on your webpage) to view your traffic information including search terms.
- Website in English, install instructions in German
- The counter ID logo is visible on your website. Perhaps its possible to create an invisible position to publish this module?? If so, this would help with superficial security as well.
- Does not track Joomla visitors but just IP addresses
- My country details were incorrect. I came from Singapore and it reported me as USA
- Did not display the version numbers of the browser just the browser brand (ie FF, IE, etc.)

Recommendations:
- provide a secure login to view the statistics.
- run all javascript from our server rather than pulling from your central server
- from a design point of view, its nice that the data is off site reducing demand on our server. perhaps you could provide the backend modules for us to install on one of our own servers giving the benefits of a remote server and security

I gave this an average because the distributed computing design is good. That said, I would not recommend this as I believe there is a very high security risk.

Firstly, this component does what it says. The product downloaded and installed correctly using the normal Joomla installation procedure.

Secondly, the support - absolutely amazing. Let me say that again, the support is absolutely amazing. And just in case you didn't understand my point. The support is brilliant. Anton, responded in less than 24 hours and sometimes within hours to each of my emails. (I must have sent more than 10 emails) What was noticeable was that the quick response time was consistent during weekdays, weekends, at various times of the day, pre-purchase and after I purchased the product. So I can only conclude that Anton prides himself on his high level of support. One bug that was discovered was fixed within the day and a new version posted for all to use immediately.

After some time playing with the product, I switched back to the previous version 1.5.5 so that I could get the zoom to appear in a lightbox, the latest version 1.5.6 changes the approach for the zoomed image to be compatible with some templates.

This product is highly recommended and well worth the investment.

Things I would like to see included in the future:
- Auto generation of a linkable table of contents / index
- Zoom option to allow for the zoom lightbox
- Update documentation / FAQ to show how to create a flash file to flip between (link) between pages. Although, Anton shared this with me through an email.
- The ability to create a pull down menu (go to page number) based on the options you specify. Ie Chapter 1, Chapter 2, Chapter3, etc. instead of page 1, page 2, page 3, etc.
- Ability to add a watermark over pages.
- Installing a new version (upgrading) over the previous version without deleting the data files. Ie Today, you must manually upgrade the files in order to keep your data files (ie. books and pages)

In summary - you cannot go wrong with this product.

I like the clean design and easy of configuration (primarily because it is simple). Unfortunately, I had a number of problems which I did not email to the developer. Is this right or wrong?

Pros:
- Simple & clean
- Easy to install and configure
- Virtue mart integration (didn't test it)
- very simple test newsletter option


Cons:
- When having a problem it would be nice to search a forum to find the solution. I didn't email the developer because I want to plug and go without even waiting for 1 day or so. So my problems may be easily resolved but without the forum I will not know
- The newsletter would not send out if I registered a subscriber manually from the back-end. The same, name & email address would receive if I subscribed from the front end.
- Unsubscribe didn't work. It says it did but it didn't. In the back end the user status changed to disable however on the front end it still thought the user was subscribed. I had to manually delete the user to be fully unsubscribed. You may argue that one should keep old logs of those who sub and then unsubscribe. Fine, but a user who unsubscribe may wish to subscribe again later. Given this implementation this would not be possible without a different email.
- A different style was shown whether I was logged into the front end when subscribing or not. I used the module in the left position (first order) using yootheme shuffle.

Suggested improvements (some have been said b4)
- templates
- groups of subscribers against a particular newsletter (for recurring newsletters). now all subscribers against the newsletter. Although you can publish and unpublish subscribers b4 sending out, I do not think this is practical as you may forget which users belongs to which "group" and I do not like the idea of "playing" with subscribers subscriptions
- front end access to previous newsletters