Comments on: UF Digital Collections: Usage Statistics Online http://library.gameology.org/2010/02/02/uf-digital-collections-usage-statistics-online/ Chronicling work on the UF Digital Collections, SobekCM, & the Digital Humanities Fri, 02 Dec 2011 17:07:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: Laurie N. Taylor http://library.gameology.org/2010/02/02/uf-digital-collections-usage-statistics-online/comment-page-1/#comment-2646 Laurie N. Taylor Tue, 02 Feb 2010 12:43:24 +0000 http://library.gameology.org/?p=664#comment-2646 We don't use Google Analytics for the UF Digital Collections because the dynamic URLs tend to make for confusing stats. The model of a hit/view is still confusing, so we added the definitions page to make the counts more comparable to other statistics: http://www.uflib.ufl.edu/ufdc/?m=ltd Our stats are cleaned of robot hits, and search engine robot hits (Google's Google Search bot and UF's Google Search Box bot and all of the others). Please let us know once your stats are out--we're always looking for good examples so we can improve. It's also difficult with the newspapers (there are cases where single issues are oddly more popular than other issues from the same paper, distorting the apparent usage of the title as a whole) and since UNT is running the <a href="http://tdnp.unt.edu/" rel="nofollow">Texas Digital Newspaper Program</a>, your stats would be particularly interesting. We don’t use Google Analytics for the UF Digital Collections because the dynamic URLs tend to make for confusing stats. The model of a hit/view is still confusing, so we added the definitions page to make the counts more comparable to other statistics: http://www.uflib.ufl.edu/ufdc/?m=ltd

Our stats are cleaned of robot hits, and search engine robot hits (Google’s Google Search bot and UF’s Google Search Box bot and all of the others).

Please let us know once your stats are out–we’re always looking for good examples so we can improve. It’s also difficult with the newspapers (there are cases where single issues are oddly more popular than other issues from the same paper, distorting the apparent usage of the title as a whole) and since UNT is running the Texas Digital Newspaper Program, your stats would be particularly interesting.

]]> By: Mark Phillips http://library.gameology.org/2010/02/02/uf-digital-collections-usage-statistics-online/comment-page-1/#comment-2644 Mark Phillips Tue, 02 Feb 2010 05:24:46 +0000 http://library.gameology.org/?p=664#comment-2644 Do you happen to collect data with google analytics as well? It would be interesting to see that data as well. It is of course an interesting problem for digital libraries like yours to share this data, it isn't exactly like the dspace, eprints model of "record view" and "download". We are getting ready to start looking at how we process our logs to aggregate statistics on the collection level as well as the item level. Do you happen to collect data with google analytics as well? It would be interesting to see that data as well. It is of course an interesting problem for digital libraries like yours to share this data, it isn’t exactly like the dspace, eprints model of “record view” and “download”. We are getting ready to start looking at how we process our logs to aggregate statistics on the collection level as well as the item level.

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