Dorothea & all, Dorothea Salo wrote: > 2008/8/25 Mark H. Wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> One thing to keep in mind about whole-site statistical tables is that >> there are already tools to do this for web sites in general, such as >> AWStats or Webalizer or whatever your favorite may be. We probably >> should not spend effort to try to duplicate those. > > Perhaps not, but if this is the direction we want people to go in, we > probably ought to document how to do it, at least informally on the > wiki. Does anybody have such a system in place?
For IDEALS (www.ideals.uiuc.edu), we use AWStats to get site-wide traffic information. However, that information is *not* publicly accessible. We only use it for administrative purposes, since most of the information AWStats generates for us is generally *not* useful to our users. So, for example, AWStats can provide us with the following general information: * Which features of DSpace are being used most frequently (e.g. Subject Browse, Community/Collection browse, search, etc.) * Which web browsers our users are using * # of overall hits in a given month,week,day,hour * Approximate amount of time users spend on our site * What external resources people use to get to our site (e.g. Google, Blog posts, Library website, etc.) * The top searches used to get to your site (in Google, Yahoo, MSN, etc) But, AWStats only works at a global level. So, it *cannot* give us any real information at a community, collection or item level, since it doesn't understand DSpace's internal structure and cannot parse DSpace's log files (it parses the *web server* log files, rather than DSpace's internal logs) So, in the end, AWStats is a worthwhile tool to keep in mind. However, without some major customizations specific to DSpace, it's really more of an Administrative tool to help you determine *how* users are using your site. It doesn't give any real worthwhile "statistics" in terms of file downloads or individual community/collection access counts, which are more likely to be useful to your users. - Tim -- Tim Donohue Research Programmer, Illinois Digital Environment for Access to Learning and Scholarship (IDEALS) University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign [EMAIL PROTECTED] | (217) 333-4648 _______________________________________________ Dspace-general mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/dspace-general
