The CMAP configuration file and templates are configured so that the popularity of datasets (in terms of number of views) are shown in dataset listings. CKAN's internal tracking of page views is used (and not e.g. the ckanext-googleanalytics extension).
The script update_tracking.sh needs to be run regularly on the server to
update the page view statistics. A line can be added to the crontab file on the
server to run the script. On an Ubuntu server you can use the command crontab -e to edit your crontab file. Here is an example crontab file with a single
cron job that runs the update_tracking.sh script hourly:
# m h dom mon dow command
@hourly /bin/sh /usr/local/opendata.cmap.illinois.gov/pyenv/src/cmap-ckan/update_tracking.sh