This page in your admin, displays important overall information about your site. It also has a section that displays the latest Geodesic news, so you can keep up to date and be aware of when new versions of the software are released.

This stat is a count of the total "views" for all live classifieds / auctions on the site. This stat can fluctuate quite a bit at times. Notice that it is a sum total of views for live listings. So this gives you at any one time the total number of views across all LIVE auctions / classifieds on the site. This stat is affected by several things.

1. When a listing expires the view count for the expiring auction / classified are removed from this stat.
2. If you allow a relatively short max life time for your classifieds / auctions this stat could be drastically affected but could give you better short term indication of listing views to your site. If you allow listings to have durations on longer time frames this stat will definitely have a higher total viewed count than the same traffic site with shorter listing durations.
3. Note that the view count can be abused by clients. Simply refreshing the listing details page can affect the view count for that specific listing.

If you want a truer statistic for the traffic to your site we suggest using an access log analyzer like AwStats which we use.

Some of the data displayed on the admin home page depends on your server's configuration in order to operate. Below are a few common issues, and how to adjust your server settings to fix them.

Symptom: The news section at the bottom of the admin home page is blank, without any Geodesic Solutions news entries.

See: Error retrieving latest version below.¹⁾

Symptom: Next to the "Latest Version" near the top of the page, it displays the message Error retrieving latest version..

First, check to see if the geodesicsolutions.com server is accessible. If you are reading this wiki article, then the geodesicsolutions.com server is up.

If the Geo server is up and you still get this error, then your site is not able to "contact" the Geo server for some reason. The most common cause for this, is the php.ini setting allow_url_fopen being turned off. If you turn this setting to on in the php.ini configuration file, in most cases that will allow the software to retrieve the latest version, and keep you informed of when a new version is available.

If allow_url_fopen is turned on but it still does not show the latest version, contact your host to see what might be preventing the software from connecting to geodesicsolutions.com.