[Web4lib] Click Counters

[Glory MacIntyre]

I am very interested in this tool as well.  Our library is going to be
launching a new site and would like to keep detailed statistics of the
usage.  The only problem is that our web site host does not provide usage
statistics. Currently we use a link that accesses an image on a BCLA server.
They keep general stats on our website that way.

I noticed Google analytics shows the locations of who is accessing the page.
We don't want to count the initial hit that is generated when users log on
to the public internet computers since our homepage is set to our library
website.  How do other libraries handle this?

Thanks and have a great day!
Glory 
Penticton Public Library
www.library.penticton.bc.ca

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From: web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org
[mailto:web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org] On Behalf Of Araby Y Greene
Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2007 12:46 PM
To: Valerie Reid; web4lib at webjunction.org
Subject: RE: [Web4lib] Click Counters

I added Google Analytics to our main web site this semester to see what
we get compared to WebTrends. It's free, but you need to get a Google
account, and must add Google's "Urchin_Tracker" script to each page you
want to track.

Adding the script is easy if your pages have an included footer file.
Put it in the footer and you're done. If you have some pages that do not
use your standard footer, or pages that should not be tracked, they need
to be dealt with separately. If you don't use a footer "include," you
might be able to  use search and replace to stuff the code above the
body tag on each page.

The data can viewed on the Analytics site or downloaded in Excel format
for whatever time period you designate. You can allow other library
staff members to view the data.

http://www.google.com/analytics/ 


-araby

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Araby Greene
Web Development Librarian
Getchell Library/322
University of Nevada, Reno
http://www.library.unr.edu/

araby at unr.edu
775.682-5678

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org [mailto:web4lib-
> bounces at webjunction.org] On Behalf Of Valerie Reid
> Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2007 11:57 AM
> To: web4lib at webjunction.org
> Subject: [Web4lib] Click Counters
> 
> Greetings:
> 
> Our library web site is part of the larger hospital web site, and
because
> of
> this, we are seriously limited as to the type of statistics that we
have
> access to.  In essence, I can find out how many hits or visits on
about 15
> of our primary web pages.  However, we have a total of about 300-400
web
> pages, and can get no statistics on any of the rest of our pages.
> 
> A few years ago, we implemented Click Manager as a way to count
internet
> traffic to some of our web pages.  This is a free package whereby I
imbed
> the specific Click Manager code into the URL and it tracks how many
times
> a
> user goes from a web page to another web page.
> 
> We just discovered that there is no newer version of Click Manager,
and
> that
> the older version is no longer supported.
> 
> Does anyone have a recommendation for a similar product?  Free or very
low
> cost would be ideal.  Thanks in advance.
> 
> Valerie Reid
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Valerie L. Reid
> --------------------------------------------------------
> Webmaster / Senior Information Resource Specialist
> Henry Ford Hospital
> Sladen Library & Center for Health Information Resources
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> Detroit, MI 48202
> 
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> 
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> 
> 
> 
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