Data analysis
If these described reporting facilities do not satisfy your hunger for usage data, you might consider using external web analysis tools such as Web Log Analyzers. You can also utilize a live data tracking system, such as Google Analytics, that can be embedded in your Moodle site.
Web Log Analyzers
Web servers, such as Apache and Microsoft IIS, keep textual logfiles that keep track of every hit on a web site. The fields and their formats can be customized so each logfile will look potentially different. The following two lines are from our Moodle test site (IP addresses have been replaced and server directories shortened):
123.45.67.89 - - [26/Mar/2010:08:15:30 +0000] "GET .../synergy-learning/packt/httpdocs/course/view.php?id=3 HTTP/1.0" ...
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