[Dspace-general] Statistics showing downloads/views/countries

[Andrew White]

One thing that concerns me about these statistics (and this includes the basic DSpace 
statistics package) is that if they include "views" and "downloads" by search engines (Google, 
Yahoo, MSN, etc) as I presume they do, then are they are not real "views" and "downloads" 
at all. Looking at our logs, a very large proportion of accesses are from search engines, and 
counting these as "views" and "downloads" would be very misleading.

Or am I wrong, and the statistics packages are (or can be) set to exclude search engine 
accesses?

Andrew White
Lincoln University,
New Zealand

On 4 Jun 2008 at 10:19, Shawna Sadler wrote:

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From:           	Shawna Sadler <ssadler at ucalgary.ca>
Subject:        	[Dspace-general] Statistics showing downloads/views/countries

> We have had wonderful feedback from our faculty about the Stats
> package we installed from the University of Minho
> http://wiki.dspace.org/index.php//StatisticsAddOn
> 
> They LOVE to see how many people have viewed the record, downloaded
> the file and where in the world the viewer is coming from. Some have
> told me they are including this info in their annual reports as well.
> 
> Here is an example from our Dspace:
> https://dspace.ucalgary.ca/stats?level=item&type=access&page=downviews
> -series&object-id=1880/45228
> 
> I would encourage others to install this stats package and in my
> opinion it should be part of the standard download. Shawna