[Web4lib] Lies, damn lies, and usage statistics?

[Sunshine Carter]

Stacy,

You might also get additional responses if you posted this to the usage 
statistics listserv (USAGE at JISCMAIL.AC.UK).

I too wonder about the accuracy of usage statistics.  Were you looking 
at the COUNTER compliant statistics, or the standard reports?  I wonder 
if the auditing process for COUNTER compliancy provides any more 
assurance of accuracy than non-COUNTER stats.  I don't know how often 
COUNTER statistics are audited.

My current issue are vendors who claim their stats are COUNTER 
compliant, but are not on the list of COUNTER compliant vendors 
(<http://www.projectcounter.org/articles.html>) (but that's another 
post for another day).

Sunshine Carter

--On Thursday, March 08, 2007 9:38 PM -0500 Stacy Pober 
<stacy.pober at manhattan.edu> wrote:

>
> Has anyone checked the accuracy of vendor-supplied database usage
> data?  If you  have, how did you do it and what results did you find?



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