Question

I am building a site on Rails framework on ec2. I am following Lean Startup approach.

Question:

1. Is there a gem/ way to track the number of hits the site have?

2. Also the time a user spend on the site?

I do not want/ be pushy to the users to login.

Answer 1

You could use a gem called Sliding Stats. Its a small little piece of code you can plug into any Rack enabled Ruby web app (any Ruby web-framework can work with Rack these days) to give you an idea of what’s going on without having to look into referrer logs etc. Here’s a github page for this gem https://github.com/vidarh/sliding-stats