Hi Susan,
On 18/11/15 10:49, Borda, Susan wrote:
Okay, so the “File Visits� in the “View Usage Statistics�
only records the downloads from the view item page, correct or
does it gather other download requests as well?
No. The File Visits in the View Usage Stats section (which draws
information from the DSpace statistics Solr core) also records
downloads that don't go via the item page. It's client-side Google
Analytics that only tracks downloads that go via the item page.
Client-side Google Analytics tracking of bitstream downloads is
(AFAIK) not a part of out-of-the-box DSpace.
I’m just trying to get a handle on what information is
captured from visits to the actual item view page versus
downloads from Google Scholar and where/how that information
is captured.
DSpace usage statistics
- captures page views of item, collection, community pages
- doesn't capture search/browse etc item page views (but there
is a "search statistics" page for some of this particular
information)
- captures all downloads of files -- distinguishes between
content files and others (eg thumbnails) based on bundle name
- flags certain hits as "bot" visits and by default will never
show these to you on statistics pages
Google Analytics captured via client-side _javascript_
- only works when user has _javascript_ enabled and isn't blocking
Google Analytics
- captures all page views
- doesn't capture any file downloads out of the box
- considers certain hits to be "bot" visits and will never show
these to you on GA web interface nor when you pull the data in
via google-stats XMLUI aspect
Google Analytics captured via server-side Java code
- captures all file downloads -- I'm not sure whether it
captures _all_ downloads or just those of content files
- same as client-side GA -- considers certain hits to be "bot"
visits and will never show these to you on GA web interface nor
when you pull the data in via google-stats XMLUI aspect
Google Analytics captured via client-side _javascript_ for bitstream
downloads (like you seem to have done via a customisation) captures
the file downloads it has been set up for, but _only_ when the
visitor accesses the corresponding page (generally that's the item
page) because the _javascript_ isn't triggered for direct file visits.
It seems like neither Google Analytics nor the native
Dspace usage stats are capturing everything, am I
understanding this correctly?
Yes. Both do bot filtering, and the native DSpace usage stats don't
capture all types of page views.
cheers,
Andrea
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Dr Andrea Schweer
IRR Technical Specialist, ITS Information Systems
The University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand
+64-7-837 9120
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