[WEB4LIB] Gathering Statistics

[Dan Lester]

At 11:03 AM 6/17/99 -0700, Susan Thompson wrote:
>I would appreciate hearing how other libraries gather statistics from 
>their Web
>pages. Specifically, we need to count each time a user accesses one of our
>online databases from our Web site. Thanks.

First, the vendors should provide you with those statistics.

Second, we count our in-library uses of them via our proxy server logs and 
analysis thereon.

Third, we count our remote authenticated accesses via the log from the 
authentication script.

We don't have any way of capturing the stats for those who access them from 
outside of the library but on campus.  But, again, the vendors' stats give 
the best picture, with the caveat that some vendors' stats are pretty 
miserable.

dan

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