Statistics

Do the hits shewn in the statistics include Podcast downloads? Is it possible to distinguish between Podcast download and sermons played from the web page? If so, could they be shewn separately in the statistics?

Douglas Shiell

No, the podcast is linking directly to the file. Joomla doesn't even know when a file is accessed.
If you want to see the hits on the file itself, you would have to check the server logs for that.

does the counter take into account robots? also as feature request would it be possible to turn off hit counts from front end? i'll comment out the code, that displays it. but it sort of producing undesired affects with preachers where they are starting to pay more and more attention to that, i don't want them to start competing with each other.

It's a very basic statistic. It counts each hit to the page, doesn't depend if it's a robot or not. Each time Joomla has to render the page, the hitcount is raised.
To have a more accurate statistic, I recommend a component like JoomlaStats.

So far it's only possible to enable/disable the statistics in the options. It's not yet possible to hide the counter from displaying. I can look into it to make it an option in SermonSpeaker 4.x. However it should be no problem to hide it if you remove the code in the layoutfile.