This is a general purpose page views / redirects counter for django projects.

This application depends on PIL.

• Add application django_counter to the INSTALLED_APPS list.
• Add to urlpatterns: (r'^count/', include('django_counter.urls'))
• Run ./manage.py syncdb to create all neccessary tables.

View counter is linked to particular object. First, you need to add and img element on the page with object:

{% load counter_tags %} {% counter object %}

The second line add an invisible image on the page. When browser gets this image, counter is incremented.

Next, you if you need to output a total number of page views somewhere, add these lines in your template:

{% load counter_tags %} {% view_count for blog.entry object.id as page_views %} <p>Object viewed: {{ page_views }} times.</p>

To use redirect counter, create one through admin interface and put anywhere link to a redirector. It can look like http://example.com/counter/r/123/.

After that, you can collect redirects and referers statistic in the admin interface.

Author: Alexander Artemenko

Please send any suggesions and patches to svetlyak.40wt at google mail, or to http://github.com/svetlyak40wt/django-counter/