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 Piwik and Google Analytics, that can be embedded in your Moodle site.
Web log analyzers
Web servers, such as Apache and Microsoft IIS, keep textual log files that keep track of every hit on a website. The fields and their formats can be customized so that each log file will look potentially different from the other. The following two lines are from our Moodle test site (IP addresses have been replaced and server directories are shortened):
123.45.67.89 - - [26/Feb/2015:08:15:30 +0000] "GET .../synergy-learning/packt/httpdocs/course/view.php?id=3 ...
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