[WEB4LIB] RE: website stats analysis

[Karen Harker]

Actually, differentiating by IP address depends on your institution's
network configuration.  At our institution, all computers are assigned
dynamic IP addresses whenever a user "logs on" to the Internet. While
many of the IP address ranges are grouped geographically, in the
physical library itself, the client and staff computers are not
separated.  We have, therefore, been unable, so far, to remove staff-use
data from our logs.

I must question, however, the value of removing such data, because many
of our staff are working either with or for clients, either directly or
indirectly.  Furthermore, shouldn't the staff be considered clients, as
well? Are they any more likely to browse out-of-scope sites than
students, faculty or other staff?

Karen R. Harker

>>> "David King" <DavidKing at kclibrary.org> 8/6/2004 1:22:47 PM >>>
<<SNIP>>

> "there is no way to eliminate staff and public computers"

Yes, there is - in the admin side of the product (well, Live Stats and
SmarterStats both do this anyway. WebTrends should, too). You do it by
IP address - basically you have to tell it to not look at certain IPs
or
ranges of IPs.

David King
Kansas City Public Library
816-701-3400, ext. 2503
davidking at kclibrary.org 






Karen R. Harker, MLS
UT Southwestern Medical Library
5323 Harry Hines Blvd.
Dallas, TX  75390-9049
214-648-8946
http://www.utsouthwestern.edu/library/