Usage Statistics

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Revision as of 17:34, 7 May 2012

Introduction

We have two systems for tracking usage of a publication:

• Google Analytics: This provides visual and tabular data based on unique URLs
• Michigan's homegrown system: This is aware of the URL structure of our publishing system and is able to equate URLs that are functionally equivalent and compile data on different types of searches and different types of browsing

As a publishing partner, your contact at MPublishing can get you access to Google Analytics for your publication. Just send an email address attached to a Google Account to your contact at MPublishing.

The information below describes Michigan's system.

The Michigan system

Michigan's system is the successor to a different system used before May 2007. Data from before May 2007 was imported from the old stats system and is unreliable.

The way the COUNTER Book Reports 1 and 2, and text views, are calculated was changed on Nov. 15, 2011. As of May 24, 2011, we are now recording section hits for encoded-text items (in addition to page-image items), allowing generation of COUNTER Book Report 2 data for these items.

As of March 21, 2012, the system includes PDF views and downloads as a type of view for most publications. (Previously these views were not included at all, and certain PDF views were erroneously included in the "pg/img" subtype from Jan. 7, 2011 to March 20, 2012.) As of April 6, 2012, clicks on links to download a PDF are included in Book Report 1.

There are two interfaces to the Michigan statistics system:

• http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/s/stats/subscriber – From this page, you can generate reports for any open-access collection or for any subscription collection your institution subscribes to.
• http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/s/stats/manager – This page is only available to those who are designated as a manager of a publication. From this page, you can generate reports for any publication for which you are a manager, with statistics broken down by known institution. A publishing partner can request access to the manager interface for their publication from their contact at MPublishing.

For more information on the reports available from these two interfaces, see documentation provided by the Digital Library Production Service.