Tracking number of authenticated users?

[anothergodaddyuser]

Hello all, I'm wondering if there is any recommended way to easily track over time the number of people that actually log into their SMF accounts?

Just a total figure to help gauge board participation. I couldn't find any obvious plugins to accomplish this.

[margarett]

Not that I know of...

[Illori]

Not that I know of...

and you are the author of the mod http://custom.simplemachines.org/mods/index.php?mod=3890

[margarett]

Yeah but it's not quite what he wants... It tracks each user's logins but in no way provides that as stats...

[Illori]

i think that is as close to "stats" as we have. no idea how else the stats could be gathered.

[margarett]

Well, from that MOD one could "more or less" easily pull a daily COUNT per user. I think

[anothergodaddyuser]

Wow, thanks for the quick replies! I greatly appreciate it.

Yeah unfortunately that isn't quite what I had in mind.

I'm wondering if something as simple as a Google Analytics goal might do the trick as the forum in question is locked out to all unauthorized users. Tracking users that pass from the front login page to the board index.

While thinking of that I notice that the URL doesn't actually change after initially logging in. Is there maybe a way to to automatically append a URL variable after successful authentication? That way Google could track it as a goal when moving from a starting URL to another one.