[Web4lib] Click Counters

[Hogue Melanie]

Our library has been using the free Google Analytics service also.

I would add to the other comments by explaining that tracking clicks is
slightly different than tracking page visits. You must place urchin
tracker code in the anchor tag of each link you want to watch instead of
in the footer or end of page. It's a little hard to find the
instructions for doing so in Analytics' documentation; so if you
implement this and need help, email Google (or me if they can't respond)
for help.

Melanie Amy Hogue, Librarian I
Business, Science & Technology
Chattanooga-Hamilton County Bicentennial Library

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@ the Chattanooga-Hamilton County Bicentennial Library

 


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[mailto:web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org] On Behalf Of Valerie Reid
Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2007 2:57 PM
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





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