I have been building TF2LogAnalyzer for couple of weeks and now this project is finished.

TF2LogAnalyzer is working on two major parts. First is small client that reads tf2 client log files and sends them to tf2loganalyzer.pelikoira.net. Then the backend system generates statistics from the user logs in realtime.

However, I found couple of problems with this system.

• It is way too hard for users to get the application working
• Logs that tf2 client provides doesn’t really have any other information than kills

Some things I learned on this project

• If you need to choose between feature/user friendliness, it is usually better to take the second one.
• Dont try to create statistics from logs that doesn’t really have any information
• jQuery.load() function is AWESOME

However, this project was great experience. I learned couple nice html/css/jquery tricks that I can use on my future projects. Feel free to try it out, but it may not be the easiest system to gather stats. But if this system gets hundreds of users, I may rethink developing more of it.

Now I can start couple of other projects that I have been thinking of. Tf2 map and simple 2d platformer c++ game… And I could also try to write more posts to this blog.

I don’t know why, but I love also all kind of stats. It’s just fun to have dozens of data and then analyze it with graphs and pie charts. Here is list of services that gives stats from various sources. I use all of them regularly.

• Google analytics – Nice stats of the website
• Woopra – Awesome realtime website stats tracking
• Feedburner – Nice feed subscribers/reach tracking
• Webalizer – Bandwith monitor provided by my webhost
• Hlstatsx – Most of my games are source games, so the Hlstatsx generates nice stats. (Open source version)
• Etqw stats site – The official stats site
• My own script that generates graphs from official ET:QW tracker
• Steamcommunity – Steamcommunity gives gametime stats and also very detailed stats for some games (tf2,l4d)
• Tweetstats – Very clean and nice stats for twitter usage
• Twitter grader – Another cool stats tool for twitter
• Twittercounter – Get graphs from followers
• Cloc/ohcount – Some stats from my programming
• Ohloh – Stats for almost every open source project. Code analysis.
• mon.itor.us – Just pinging my site and checking that it’s up and running
• Pisg – Stats from IRC
• Last fm – All of the music I listen is listed on last.fm Also see my history/progress graph generated from last.fm stats
• Wakoopa – Wakoopa tracks what apps I use and how much.