Hi Susan,
On 18/11/15 09:56, Borda, Susan wrote:
We have
GA implemented via a this bit of code in item-view.xsl:
onclick="ga('send', 'event', 'File Downloads',
'Click', 'View/Open');�
No, it's not. Your version indeed sends the "a file has been
downloaded" information to Google Analytics when the user clicks on
a download link on the item page. So in order for this to work, the
user actually has to get to the item page (which isn't the case for
the scenario I mentioned, someone clicking on a PDF link on a search
engine results page, or other external links directly to the PDF).
This isn't in item-view.xsl for Mirage 1 or 2, so presumably is a
local customisation at your end.
I was talking about a different piece of functionality --
server-side code that sends a custom "hey someone from this IP
address just downloaded this file" message to Google Analytics
whenever a bitstream is downloaded. I can't actually seem to find a
description of this in the DSpace docs, but there is some initial
discussion in Jira: https://jira.duraspace.org/browse/DS-2088 Since
this functionality is server-side, it doesn't rely on the visitor
hitting the item page (nor on the visitor having _javascript_ enabled
/ not blocking GA).
cheers,
Andrea
Thanks,
susan
—Â
Susan Borda
Digital Technologies Development Librarian
Montana State University Library
406-994-1873
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.Â
Thanks,
s
—Â
Susan Borda
Digital Technologies Development Librarian
Montana State University Library
406-994-1873
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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