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Mark Wood updated DS-600:
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Status: Open (was: Received)
I disagree. Right now, "visits" shows how many times someone thought an item
was worth evaluating, while "downloads" shows how many times it proved
interesting enough to read. What, exactly, does (item views + downloads)
*mean*?
If "views of the splash page" isn't tracking anything useful (because we don't
count people who didn't come through the page but did download bitstreams) then
maybe we should just get rid of it.
> Add more information about File Downloads to Statistics Reports
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> Key: DS-600
> URL: http://jira.dspace.org/jira/browse/DS-600
> Project: DSpace 1.x
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: Solr
> Affects Versions: 1.6.0, 1.6.1
> Reporter: Tim Donohue
>
> This comes out of a conversation with Claudia Juergen on IRC.
> Currently, in 1.6.1, the following Stats are captured:
> Visits -- total views of Item splash page only
> Visits per Month
> File Downloads -- file download stats
> Top Country Visits
> Top City Visits
> The oddity in those reports is that most of the statistics only detail
> information about views of the Item splash page. As Google often provides
> users with direct links to download files, the stats report will sometimes
> end up looking very "odd" to normal users. As any example, here's a sample
> stats report from an item in Claudia's repository:
> Total Visits - 5
> File Downloads - 300
> This looks odd to many users -- why has this item only been visited 5 times,
> but downloaded 300 times? The reality is that many users jumped straight to
> downloading the file(s) as Google provided them with a direct link to the
> files. So, although these stats may be correct, they look odd as the numbers
> don't seem to total up properly.
> I'd propose we change the definitely of what a "Visit" means, so that these
> statistics make more sense overall. For example, redefining it as follows:
> Visit = Item Views + File Downloads (it would be also nice to potentially
> split out *how* many of the visits are Item Views, and how many come from
> File downloads)
> So, in that way, using the above example, you'd have a stats report more like:
> Total Visits - 305 (5 Item Views, 300 File Downloads)
> File Downloads - would still detail individual file downloads, totaling up
> to 300
> It'd also be nice to count File Downloads as part of the "Total Visits per
> month", "Top Country Visits", and "Top City Visits". That way all the
> totals would match up better, and you'd also have a better sense of where the
> files were being downloaded from (and how many downloads happened in the last
> month).
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