As we all know the statistics module is full of fail. It is useful for many many things, but on anything more than a simple site it just doesn't work. Caching such as Varnish causes in accurate statistics to be recorded and displayed. A db write and db read on every page load to the same set of statistics tables causes many performance issues.

This core conversation will discuss what has already been done to make statistics better for Drupal 8, and how some of these can get backported to Drupal 7. I will also cover my ideas of how we can make statistics module better.

My ideas for the module are a lot more minimal than many others. I just want to make what we have work. There are others who think the statistics module should be more pluggable, I would love to hear how this would work.