[Dspace-general] Looking for (DSpace) Repositories using Google Analytics

[Bram Luyten]

Thanks Jonas,

I replied also off-list to arrange access.
At the moment I am already looking at data from several people who gave me
access, and some of the differences are remarkable.

Comparing Visits & number of items for December 2008

*Comparing Data for December 2008*
1. 67667 visits for 39868 items, which amounts to 1,69 visits per item
2. 38128 visits for 3783 items, which amounts to 10,07 visits per item
3. 22462 visits for 176400 items, which amounts to 0,1273 visits per item
4. 366 visits for 1300 items, which amounts to 0,28 visits per item
5. 722 visits for 3500 items, which amounts to 0,20 visits per item

For repositories 1 and 2, local impact is very high, over 60% of those
visits come from the country where the repository is located.
It will surely be interesting to investigate further how you can influence
whether you're running an 10 visits per item or 0,12 visits per item
repository !

If more people would like to share Google Analytics data, or just check out
how many visits they had in December 2008, and comparing this to the number
of items (based on google analytics data only please), this would be great.

best regards,

Bram

@mire NV
Romeinse Straat 18
3001 Heverlee
Belgium
+32 2 888 29 56

http://www.atmire.com - Institutional Repository Solutions
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On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 4:55 PM, Jonas Gilbert <Jonas.Gilbert at ub.gu.se>wrote:

> Hello Bram,
>
> We have been using Google Analytics with our DSpace repository as of July
> 2007. We've also configured the bitstream download link so that it would be
> included in the Google Analytics logs. You are welcome to use this data in
> your research. Please contact me so that we can arrange access.
>
> I am not aware of any similar research using data from Google Analytics,
> however I  noticed that Cybermetrics Lab - which among other things
> publishes the "Ranking Web of World Repositories" -  is also interested in
> Google Analytics data for the repository ranking, see "Proposal to
> webmasters for 2009 edition" at http://repositories.webometrics.info/
>
> Best regards,
> Jonas Gilbert
> Gothenburg University Library
>
>
>
> Bram Luyten wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> we're currently initiating a small research exercise, where we try to
>> analyse & compare number of repository visitors versus number of items,
>> full-text, ... in the repository.
>>
>> Questions to figure out include:
>>
>> - Are more visits being generated when items contain full-text bitstreams,
>> comparing to items without bitstreams
>> - How do distributions between hits generated through search engines,
>> referring sites and direct traffic relate to eachother, for different
>> repositories.
>> - How big is the impact of the dominant language, used in a repository &
>> in item metadata on the number of visitors
>>
>> To make sure that "number of visitors" and other figures, are comparable,
>> *we are looking for repositories that have (at least) six months of google
>> analytics data (where the analytics script was included in the dspace
>> footer, so that each pageview, or hit has been recorded), that are willing
>> to share some key figures*.
>>
>> Our ambition is to detect possible correlations or anomalies. It would be
>> great if a general conclusion could arise that a number of X items in your
>> repository (in english) tend to generate a number of X monthly visits
>> through search engines, but this might be a bit far-fetched (although a
>> current comparison with 3 repositories already looks promising).
>>
>> Any questions or comments are greatly appreciated. Especially if you know
>> of research that has already done this ;)
>>
>> with best regards,
>>
>> Bram Luyten
>>
>> @mire NV
>> Romeinse Straat 18
>> 3001 Heverlee
>> Belgium
>> +32 2 888 29 56
>>
>> http://www.atmire.com - Institutional Repository Solutions
>> http://www.togather.eu - Before getting together, get Tog at ther
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