Hi,
I think the download bitstream is not recorded by google-analytics in
dspace version 5.5. in GoogleRecorderEventListener.java. We could fix that
by adding a "User-Agent" to the header.
private void bitstreamDownload(UsageEvent ue) throws IOException {
HttpPost httpPost = new HttpPost(GoogleURL);
List<NameValuePair> nvps = new ArrayList<NameValuePair>();
nvps.add(new BasicNameValuePair("v", "1"));
nvps.add(new BasicNameValuePair("tid", analyticsKey));
nvps.add(new BasicNameValuePair("cid", "999"));
nvps.add(new BasicNameValuePair("t", "event"));
nvps.add(new BasicNameValuePair("dp",
ue.getRequest().getRequestURI()));
nvps.add(new BasicNameValuePair("ec", "bitstream"));
nvps.add(new BasicNameValuePair("ea", "download"));
StringEntity entity = new UrlEncodedFormEntity(nvps);
* entity.setContentType(new BasicHeader("User-Agent",* "BIBSYS
Brage"));
httpPost.setEntity(entity);
try (CloseableHttpResponse response2 =
httpclient.execute(httpPost)) {
// I can't find a list of what are acceptable responses, so I
log the response but take no action.
log.debug("Google Analytics response is " +
response2.getStatusLine());
}
log.debug("Posted to Google Analytics - " +
ue.getRequest().getRequestURI());
}
Just in case you still have that issue.
best regards
Gregor
Gregor Gabriel
Senior Engineer
Abelsgt. 5, 7491 Trondheim, Norway
www.bibsys.no
Am Donnerstag, 19. November 2015 00:04:18 UTC+1 schrieb Susan Borda:
>
> Great thank you! So maybe I’m not going crazy. I posted this to
> dspace-tech as well to see if anyone else is getting 0 downloads.
>
> -susan
> —
> Susan Borda
> Digital Technologies Development Librarian
> Montana State University Library
> 406-994-1873
>
>
>
> From: Andrea Schweer <[email protected] <javascript:>>
> Date: Wednesday, November 18, 2015 at 4:00 PM
> To: Susan Borda <[email protected] <javascript:>>, "
> [email protected] <javascript:>" <[email protected]
> <javascript:>>
> Subject: Re: [dspace-community] google-stats File Downloads
>
> Hi again,
>
> actually it looks like what you're seeing may be a general problem with
> google-stats (especially if you can verify that GA has the data, it's just
> not shown). See this Jira issue: https://jira.duraspace.org/browse/DS-2899
>
> I guess another useful data point would be for someone else who's using
> google-stats to confirm that they're seeing non-zero numbers for bitstream
> downloads.
>
> cheers,
> Andrea
>
> On 19/11/15 10:47, Andrea Schweer wrote:
>
> Hi Susan,
>
> the page you link to just describes how to integrate the display of GA
> stats into DSpace. I believe for you, something is going wrong with the
> data capture side of things. Your customisation in item-view.xsl should no
> longer be necessary since the server-side download tracking should now be
> in place (assuming you've set your GA key correctly in dspace.cfg). The
> server-side download tracking records the events in the same way as the
> display expects (at least that's what I believe, I'm not using the
> google-stats aspect myself). Having the item-view tracking like you
> explained won't screw things up, it will just double up on some of the
> figures.
>
> However, since you say your display shows 0 downloads, something must be
> going wrong with the server-side download tracking. Again this is probably
> more suitable for dspace-tech, and it's also starting to get beyond what I
> can help with in the time I have. But if I were you I'd start by checking
> how the events come through in your GA data, using the GA web interface. I
> can see this under Behaviour -> Events -> Overview. At the bottom of that
> page, I can get a list of event categories and of event actions. As
> explained in my previous e-mail, the google-stats code looks at category =
> bitstream and action = download. Check whether you have any data for that
> combination. If you don't then something is going wrong with your data
> capture. If you do have data for that combination then something is going
> wrong with displaying the information. If the problem is with capturing the
> data, try changing your item-view customisation to use category = bitstream
> and action = download.
>
> cheers,
> Andrea
>
> On 19/11/15 10:25, Borda, Susan wrote:
>
> Hi-
> We followed these instructions to enable Google Analytics in Dspace:
>
> https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSDOC5x/DSpace+Google+Analytics+Statistics
>
> Is there something else we need to do to enable the downloads portion or
> is our customization in the item-view.xsl screwing things up?
>
> Thanks,
> s
> —
> Susan Borda
> Digital Technologies Development Librarian
> Montana State University Library
> 406-994-1873
>
>
>
> From: Andrea Schweer < <javascript:>[email protected] <javascript:>>
> Date: Wednesday, November 18, 2015 at 12:45 PM
> To: Susan Borda < <javascript:>[email protected] <javascript:>>, "
> [email protected] <javascript:>" <[email protected]
> <javascript:>>
> Subject: Re: [dspace-community] google-stats File Downloads
>
> Hi Susan,
>
> On 18/11/15 09:28, Borda, Susan wrote:
>
> Hi again-
> We were tracking file downloads via Google Analytics starting in 10/2014
> up until 06/2015, but our “File Downloads” in “google-stats" are showing 0
> for all months including those when we were tracking.
>
> http://scholarworks.montana.edu/xmlui/handle/1/2999/google-stats
>
> According to Google Analytics we should have 464 downloads during that
> time. Should “google-stats” be able to pull that data from Google Analytics
> just like it does for “Page Views” or is something not enabled correctly
> with Google stats in our Dspace instance?
>
>
> From your other e-mail, it looks like you're using custom code to track
> downloads. I'd guess that your custom code sends the download events in a
> slightly different way from what the google-stats aspect expects.
>
> This is probably starting to get into dspace-tech territory, but you can
> see the query that's built for bitstream downloads here:
> https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/blob/master/dspace-api/src/main/java/org/dspace/google/GoogleQueryManager.java#L43
> :
> ga:eventCategory==bitstream;ga:eventAction==download;ga:pagePath=~"+
> handle + "/"
>
> So it looks like this is looking for events with a category of "bitstream"
> and action of "download" on the current page. Your custom code from your
> other e-mail sends
>
> onclick="ga('send', 'event', 'File Downloads', 'Click', 'View/Open');”
>
> I'm guessing "File downlaods" is the category and "Click" the action, so
> there's a mismatch right there -- Google Analytics doesn't "know" that
> these are the same thing.
>
> cheers,
> Andrea
>
> --
> Dr Andrea Schweer
> IRR Technical Specialist, ITS Information Systems
> The University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand
> +64-7-837 9120
>
>
> --
> Dr Andrea Schweer
> IRR Technical Specialist, ITS Information Systems
> The University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand
> +64-7-837 9120
>
>
> --
> Dr Andrea Schweer
> IRR Technical Specialist, ITS Information Systems
> The University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand
> +64-7-837 9120
>
>
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