[WEB4LIB] Webtrends and Analog

[David King]

I don't remember what webtrends calls it, but it should have that
capability. We use a similar product called Smarter Stats that has a
similar feature, called "Total Hits."

And as an aside - total hits/files downloaded is VERY different from
Page Views. Page Views counts the number of times someone looks at your
page (some break that down even further into page views and page
visits). Total Hits/downloaded files (if I'm correct in what the
"downloaded files" count is doing) counts every time a file is hit - so
if one page has three images, that page gets four hits - one for the
.html, and one for each .gif file. 

So hits/files isn't an accurate count of web traffic.

Unless your files downloaded was counting how many times a file was
actually downloaded, like mp3 or pdf files...

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


-----Original Message-----
From: web4lib at webjunction.org
[mailto:web4lib at webjunction.org] On Behalf Of Elena OMalley
Sent: Wednesday, June 23, 2004 1:45 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list
Subject: [WEB4LIB] Webtrends and Analog

For anyone familiar with both Webtrends and Analog: 

Analog has a Request Report which, according to the documentation,
"lists which files were downloaded." We've been using that figure in our
stats analysis. 
Now, we're on a different server and using Webtrends. The closest
equivalent in Webtrends reports that I've found is Top Pages views. Does
anyone know how close an equivalent this is, or if Webtrends has a
category that would be more like Analog's Request Report figures?

I'm considering looking at Webtrends visit counts in the future, but I'm
currently trying to find a way to compare this year's stats and last
year's.

Thanks,
Elena
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Elena O'Malley
Head of Library Computer and Internet Services Emerson College Library,
Boston, MA 02116