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!

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.

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!

google analytics