: Is it possible to trigger a virtual pageview on a site tracking stats with awstats? What I'm Doing I have a multi-step form (7 steps) where users make a choice on each form part and submit

@LarsenBagley505

Alrighty, thanks again for the help. This gist is what set me up to complete what I needed: gist.github.com/digisavvy/585d3bdbfcd7b0aa5a09 - The suggestion to leverage Ajax helped a lot, too. =)

Thanks again.

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@Ogunnowo487

AWStats reports on your server's access log. So unless there is an external request to your server (ie. a page reload, that doesn't hit the browser cache) then no pageview is going to be recorded.

It sounds as if the 7 steps of your form are all on the same page, perhaps implemented with client-side JavaScript? In this case there is no request to your server and no "pageview" recorded.

If your 7 steps where on 7 separate pages (perhaps a ?page=N query string) and each step was submitted to the server as you progressed then you would expect this to appear in your access log.

A workaround would be to issue an XMLHttpRequest (AJAX) request to your server on each step. Since this is an external request to your server it should appear in your access log and be reported by AWStats. You can also make this request unique so you can differentiate it from normal page loads.

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