Seeing as I was drooling over the Mint statistics engine and interface; drooling, but also lamenting the $30+ price tag per site (which a friend assures me is well worth it), I came across the free-and-GPL SlimStat, and was delighted again.

I’ve installed it on all my sites, and was bothered by the fact that I was messing up the stats by viewing the pages myself. As no one else is looking at these websites, it was quite a large statistical skew!

Inspired by Natural Web’s trial with cookies and ever dependable quirksmode, I’ve written an extension for SlimStat (SlimStat so cool it even got plugins!) to stop yourself interfering with your precious stats. It’s called Stealth. Download Stealth here, and place the ’stealth’ folder in your plugin directory slimstat/plugins/. You’ll see a new menu item in your SlimStat console, where you can set a stealth cookie for your personal computer. There is one additional piece of configuration required involving slimstat/inc.stats.php; the instructions are provided after you turn on the cookie.

I’m looking forward to feedback on this one, let me know if there’s any bugs.