File download/link click counter

I’m building a simple wallpapers site with my photography. Here’s an example page of one of the images:

http://neilcreek.com/foamy-flow

I would love to know how many times an image has been downloaded via some kind of counter, and display that on the page. The "download" link is simply a link to the image file, and nothing as complicated as the FileDownload snippet (which includes a counter). Also, there are three ways to link to the file on each page: the title, the thumbnail and the download button.

Is there any way to do a simple view counter for each file which will show how many times links to it have been clicked?

Thank you!

You’ll need to use a traditional web statistics package because MODx does not really have a way to serve image files unless you use the FileDownload snippet/plugin or use a snippet to output the image. Otherwise, it’s all at the web server and you would need to track it there.

You could either use the FileDownload PE (Which is what I would do) or write a simple snippet to manage the downloads by serving the file and adding a count to a table. It might be possible to add a count to a TV using a plugin too.

You could either use the FileDownload PE (Which is what I would do) or write a simple snippet to manage the downloads by serving the file and adding a count to a table. It might be possible to add a count to a TV using a plugin too.

Thanks for the link to FDPE, I had forgotten about that option. Will use it today