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4 summary: 'Measure number of daily, weekly and monthly active users' |
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8 ============ |
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10 This module calculates the number of daily, weekly and monthly active users - |
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11 often abbreviated as DAU, WAU and MAU. |
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13 These metrics are more accurate for determining how many people are actually |
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14 using a service. For example simply counting registered accounts will typically |
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15 include many dormant accounts that aren't really being used. Many servers also |
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16 track the number of connected users. This is a useful metric for many purposes, |
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17 but it is generally lower than the actual number of users - because some users |
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18 may only connect at certain times of day. |
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20 The module defines "activity" as any login/logout event during the time period, |
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21 and for this it depends on mod_lastlog2 being loaded (it reads the data stored |
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22 by mod_lastlog2). Each individual user is only counted once. |
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24 "Daily" means any event within the past 24 hours, "weekly" means within the |
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25 past 7 days, and "monthly" means within the past 30 days. |
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27 Details |
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30 The user count is calculated shortly after startup, and then recalculated |
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31 hourly after that. |
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33 Metrics are exported using Prosody's built-in statistics API. |
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35 There is no configuration for this module. |
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37 Compatibility |
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38 ============= |
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40 Requires Prosody 0.11 or later with mod_lastlog2 enabled. |
