IR statistical software is maintained by system administrator, Ying Jin. There are three statistical tools employed for the IR.

DSpace Statistics

DSpace usage statistics are provided since the installation of DSpace release 1.7 forward (2011). These provide both dimensional aggregations (e.g. Country, Document type, etc) and Temporal data¹.

Key Features

• Usage statistics can be accessed from the lower end of the navigation menu.

• Usage statistics are provided publicly (no log in is required).

• Usage statistics are available for both individual deposits or at a collection/community level.

• Excludes known crawler/spider activity.

• solr.spiderips.urls = http://iplists.com/google.txt, \
                       http://iplists.com/inktomi.txt, \
                       http://iplists.com/lycos.txt, \
                       http://iplists.com/infoseek.txt, \
                       http://iplists.com/altavista.txt, \
                       http://iplists.com/excite.txt, \
                       http://iplists.com/misc.txt, \
                       http://iplists.com/non_engines.txt

   

• Statistical reports are generated regularly (Nightly)

• Planned future enhancements

• Display top 10 most popular items per community/collection -- Completed Oct, 2012

• Hide non-Bundle:ORIGINAL files (e.g. thumbnail views) -- Completed Oct, 2012

• Pull in Google Author Profiles

Coverage

• Usage statistics reflect continuous data from October, 2011 forward. Earlier log information is also available but with some gaps in coverage:

• 2010 is complete

• Only 2009-11-06 through 2009-12-31 are covered

• Missing October, 2013 (due to storage space that was not discovered in timely manner)
  

   

Description of Views

see footnote 2

Home page

Starting from the repository homepage, the statistics page displays the top 10 most popular items of the entire repository.

Community/Collection home page

The following statistics are available for each community and collection home pages:

• Total visits of the current community/collection home page

• Visits of the community/collection home page over a timespan of the last 7 months

• Top 10 country from where the visits originate

• Top 10 cities from where the visits originate

• Top 10 most popular items (display added in Oct, 2012 but is retroactive data)

Item home page

The following statistics are available for the item home pages:

• Total visits of the item

• Visits of the item over a timespan of the last 7 months

• Top 10 file visits for bitstreams attached to the item

• Top 10 country views from where the visits originate

• Top 10 cities from where the visits originate

Note on impacts of re-ingest

As of 10/18/2012, statistics data is preserved at the item level. The new re-import code preserves date.accessioned, date.available, description.provenance, and any item mappings to multiple collections. However,  it does not preserve bitstream statistics since this is unique to the individual file that is being replaced.

Webalizer

Repository Level statistics are also available from Webalizer software and accessible at http://scholarship.rice.edu/webalizer

The index page shows only the last 12 months reports. However, you can access other reports by changing the url, e.g. http://scholarship.rice.edu/webalizer/usage_200810.html to http://scholarship.rice.edu/webalizer/usage_200510.html

The earliest report we have is from June 2005.

Further explanation of webalizer statistics can be found at http://www.e-webstyle.com/techinfo/index.php/2007/05/30/webalizer-statistics-explained/

Google Analytics

CDS staff also monitors usage statistics at the Repository Level using Google Analytics. Some communities have been setup for a separate Google account in order to track activity just for those areas, which requires a special setup. If you are interested in viewing Google Analytics data, please contact any CDS staff member.

Some additional statistics offered by Google Analytics include³:

• Time visitors spent on the site

• Where they came from

• Terms they used in search engines to find items

• The geographic location of visitors

• How many pages looked at

• Start and end pages of visits

atmire Analyzer

Use this tool to view stats on total IR items that have been analyzed and found in Google Scholar, total number of items and performance (load) speed and much more.  Launch tool here. 

References