First of all, I am using Joomla Stats on may sites of mine. It is good tool but for my opinion not state of the art. The most i have to criticize is the buggy and extensive database usage. This should be the first thing the developers has to change.

I have used JoomlaStats for several years but had some issues when I migrated to Joomla 1.5. JoomlaStats 3.x not only is 1.5 compatible, but is improved in many ways. I have much of the functionality I get from Google Analytics and I get it with a much easier to use interface.

A great component that works "right out of the box". You can be up and running in five minutes.

a good components but its not supporting arabic , im telling you there alot of arab joomla users waiting for your component to support arabic.

Hi, this is exactly what I needed to track the website activities through the day. It got installed in seconds and it's up and running properly.

Install was very simple.
Migration of my old joomla 1.0 joomlastats data was great (and automatic).
The flash with the charts is really good.

What about the JoomlaStatsViewer ?
Any progress with that ?
I use it in the past on all my clients websites.

Tanks for share this component!

If you're a newbie like I am, clicking on the download button makes your head spin! But, there is really only one file you need to download and install: JoomlaStats_v3.0.x.

After you upload the ZIP file, drop the code in your template's HTML (follow the easy instructions) and you're good to go!

The reporting is instantaneous and covers all the major traffic stats requirements to understand who's coming your website and what they are doing while visiting. Kudos to the developers!!!!

Yeah it's okay but i would have preferred something a bit more of something that would actually give me statistics rather than highlights of my website. Example : It gives you keywords people have used to find you're website but only tells you one of the words they used to find your website and if you click "expand all" it limits what you want to know (as i said before highlights)It's more of a fad than a useful statistics tool that tells you about 20% whats actually happening, but since i have no other option of a statistics tool i'll have to use this one which is why i gave it a fair rating. However once one of the better statistics tools becomes available for 1.5 i'm dumping this one straight away.

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I would prefer something more useful than highlights. The stuff i don't care about is bloated and the stuff i do care about (charts, diagrams, Referers, keywords) is minimal or non existent. Which is a shame because it's really only one of the true joomla statistics which integrates well with 1.5 but cares more about telling you about live data than useful data.

I just installed JoomlaStats on my Joomla 1.5.9 site. The only thing I have done to make it work on Joomla 1.5 is to enable legacy mode.
The installation is very simple.
The only difficulty is probably the choose of what files to download because in the download site there are many links. For example I suggest to delete or put in an "old version" visitors by country module which has been replaced by mod_jstats_flags.

However, great work guys and many thanks making your work freely available to the community.

Whilst this component undoubtedly has some nice features, and it might be convenient to see your stats in Joomla, please be aware that a huge amount of data will be stored in your Joomla database. This can cause major problems if you try to move your site to another location at a later date. In my opinion, statistics as detailed as the ones provided by this component should be handled by a dedicated stats program (such as awStats), not a Joomla component - it is just not the right tool for the job.

This, I believe, the bust such component for Joomala. I have tried all the available stats components and this is the only one with this possibilietes.
Only one thing which make me queasy, is that all the links are sending POST data. It is not possible to open a link in new window. Every time when you want to go back, you will get the borwser message about resending POST data. It is very annoying.

I liked so much JoomlaStats. Is very complete and very easy.
Thank you

what a pity. After updating to Joomla 1.5 I realize I should have waited until there is a version of JoomlaStats for 1.5...

Good job guys!

This is the best stats component I have used by some distance. Unfortunately, as it has not yet been upgraded to be 1.5 native, I can no longer use it.

It was only when I had to use other options that I realised just how good joomlastats is.

I hope that a 1.5 native version is being developed.

I got an error installing ver 2.2 on joomla 1.5.7 with legacy turned on. The error related to an "index.html" not found. The solution was to reset the permission to that file to 755 instead of 644.

Otherwise, this is a really good addition and I have had it as part of every joomla installation. Keep up the good work! Hoping to see a 1.5 native version of this soon.

I am using this component across all my 1.0 sites, because it gives me all the information I need. Simple and easy to install. I hope the developers will create a 1.5 version soon as there is no decent stats component for 1.5 yet.

Developers: Thank you for creating such a great extension!

This component is just great! I'm so happy I found it! It offers lots and lots of statistics even those you normally won't need :)

The component says that it works with Joomla 1.5 with legacy on. This is misleading because it does not work. None of the links in the backend of Joomla do not work.

For those like me too stupid to install a whole application to do this..

[code]mysql --user=youruser --password=yourpass yourdbname
update jos_plugins set published=0 where element="bot_jstats_activate";[/code]

Then go and remove the bot ....
I'll try the module and see how it works

edits:
OK, so I de-installed the bot then installed the module for activtion and no problems (yet)

This component (version 2.2.1) does not work in Joomla 1.5 legacy if you activate the "bot_jstats_activate" mambot. You will be completely locked out of your site ("Restricted Access"). Instead insert the PHP code in the index file of your template (as mentioned in the installation instructions).

If you are locked out, here's a quick way of getting back in: with an application such as PhpMyAdmin go to the Joomla database, open the "jos-plugins" table and find the "bot_jstats_activate" record. Change the value in the "published" field from "1" to "0" for that record. Save the record.