Actually, copy/pasting javascript would be MORE work.
The hosting company I use, all I have to do is go to "http://mydomain.com/stats" and enter in the username and password I setup. No javascript changes necessary, because everything is in apache or nginx access logs, which have been around for just about ever.
Kinda sad/funny that younger web devs don't know this stuff.
Oh wow, yeah, reading files in /var/log/httpd/ is soooo hard.
I agree that not all people have the capability to work with this (read, front-end developers, Wordpress customizers, etc) still, I mean, even CPanel lets you download it from past months.
cPanel has multiple log analyzers built in. So the user doesn't have to go through that work. If your site is on a shared host and it uses cPanel, just log into cPanel and you'll find them.
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but that can't be as easy as copy pasting a snippet of javascript code into your website?
Actually, copy/pasting javascript would be MORE work.
The hosting company I use, all I have to do is go to "http://mydomain.com/stats" and enter in the username and password I setup. No javascript changes necessary, because everything is in apache or nginx access logs, which have been around for just about ever.
Kinda sad/funny that younger web devs don't know this stuff.
Oh wow, yeah, reading files in /var/log/httpd/ is soooo hard.
I agree that not all people have the capability to work with this (read, front-end developers, Wordpress customizers, etc) still, I mean, even CPanel lets you download it from past months.
cPanel has multiple log analyzers built in. So the user doesn't have to go through that work. If your site is on a shared host and it uses cPanel, just log into cPanel and you'll find them.