Counting visits and more in a mysql, any better practice or third party software?

Let's assume i have a website like quora where i want to count how many visitor开发者_如何学Gos saw a particular page/question...("This question was visited 345 times")

i know i could create a column where i store a value that increases every user visits it. But what about using some external service...that maybe can more robust and reliable (filtering unique/pageviews etc..)

any suggestion?

(what about Google Analytics API?)

thanks!

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Google analytics? Or any of the other analytics packages will give you lots of info. Or you could run your own and put it on a memcached layer to make it super fast.

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The best way is to do it manually. There are some ways to do it...

If you dont want try http://www.tinycounter.com/create.php kai for each url add one registration with the some email... Though this is not efficient for many pages!

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google analytics