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#Tools for Web Administrators

Yesterday was rough. We launched the new www.example.com and got swamped. Last night I used the stats we had from monitorix and mysqltuner to adjust both the database and web servers so they could sustain a higher rate of traffic (i'd already enabled caching at t he server during the day to give users a tolerable experience). Along the way I came across some nice tools I wanted to share.

Been using mytop for awhile, very good for real time monitoring of MySQL server.

Found apachetop today, it lets you get real time stats from Apache's logs (access).

Mike introduced me to the Google Page Analytics extension for Chrome. It pulls from Google Analytics's real time stats to give you info on the site in general as well as elements of the page in particular, like the percentage of visitors who click a certain link. You need to be authorized to view Analytics on the account the site is linked to (in our case www is under the gctechnical.arw GA account and I've given my work Google Account rights to view and analyze results).

Aggressive caching of web content does seem to skew the counters for individual page elements, but at this point you'd have to pry my cold dead hands from my caching plugin (W3 Total Cache with page and browser caching enabled is what we use on www).

The screens from mytop and apachetop are in the next mail down of this thread. Here is what Page Analytics looks like: