Franklin is a tool for recording data from various tests and store them for later display in charts. With the help of franklin you can monitor your website’s ping, pagerank, google indexed pages and much more - you can create your own tests!
Screenshot
This screenshot is taken from franklin.marceleichner.de and shows an example report for marceleichner.de where google pagerank, indexed pages, feedburner readers etc. is tested and recorded.
Download
Check the sourceforge project website for the current franklin releases.
Requiremens
- PHP 5.2 or later
- GD-lib installed
- editable crontab
Installation & Setup
- extract/copy all files into an extra directory in your webspace
- make the directory /data/ writable by cron.php
- edit /config/config.php to your own desires
- create a cron job that calls cron.php periodically (for example every 10 minutes)
- open the root directory in your webbrowser to see the reports
Features
- simple PHP5 object oriented code
- easy PHP-based configuration & installation
- simple PHP-generated charts
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some basic Tests:
- Feedburner Hits and Readers (with awareness API)
- Twitter Followers
- Alexa.com Traffic Rank (International and Country)
- Google indexed pages & inbound link
- Google Pagerank
- Simple socket-based ping
Plugins & Tests
There is just a bunch of tests/plugins for franklin currently. If you have
a cool idea or implemented your own test yourself feel free to put into the
current franklin branch on sourceforge.
Optional plugins & tests will be listet here for download in the future.
Contact & Support
Franlin is still under development and will be updated from time to time
with new tests and features that you can request. Use the support page for request or contact.
You can also support the project by blogging about, putting a link on your
website or just tell everyone that it’s cool!
One way to do this is to click on the ohloh.net button below: