Re: [dspace-community] File Visits = downloads?

Tue, 17 Nov 2015 12:33:07 -0800

Hi Susan,

I'd expect even more discrepancies between the DSpace usage stats and Google Analytics for the page views, for several reasons:
  • differences in bot filtering as mentioned for the bitstream downloads
  • if I remember correctly then the page view numbers in the DSpace usage stats refer only to _item_ page views, not other pages - Google Analytics counts all pages
  • Google Analytics will only count users with _javascript_ + GA enabled while DSpace doesn't need these two to be switched on

The first point on the list probably still makes the biggest difference (plus plenty of bots won't trigger the GA _javascript_).

If I read your comment correctly and your download tracking is done client-side (ie customised, not the out-of-the-box DSpace functionality to push events to Google Analytics server-side) then your GA tracking also won't include any downloads that bypass the item page (such as someone clicking directly on a PDF link in a search engine listing).

cheers,
Andrea

On 18/11/15 09:15, Borda, Susan wrote:
Hi Andrea-
I am seeing major discrepancies in the Page Views unfortunately we we had a gap in download tracking via Google Analytics (the code was not reapplied when we migrated from Mirage 1 to Mirage 2) so we don’t have anything to compare there. 

Thanks,
s
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Susan Borda
Digital Technologies Development Librarian
Montana State University Library
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From: <[email protected]> on behalf of Andrea Schweer <[email protected]>
Date: Tuesday, November 17, 2015 at 12:55 PM
To: Susan Borda <[email protected]>, "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [dspace-community] File Visits = downloads?

Hi Susan,

On 18/11/15 08:47, Borda, Susan wrote:
Hi All-
In "View Usage Statistics" in Dspace (5.4 XMLUI) do “File Visits� == file downloads?

Yes.

 Also, should these align with “google-stats� if that is set up for downloads?

No, I wouldn't expect the numbers to be the same. The DSpace usage statistics and Google Analytics each do their own filtering of what they consider to be "bots" -- search engine crawlers and the like. I'd generally expect Google Analytics to be stricter with the filtering, so the GA numbers would likely be lower. Are you seeing major discrepancies between the two figures?

cheers,
Andrea

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