VuFind

Sean Purcell gave a really impressive presentation at the VuFind Summit on his use of Google Analytics for tracking all kinds of interesting VuFind stats.  You can see it around 1:32:50 in this archived stream:

http://lawmedia.law.villanova.edu/mediasite/Viewer/?peid=b724aa6e381b47f0961b7bb98f5354691d

Unfortunately, the screen isn't very visible in the recording -- perhaps Sean can share his slides if he still has a copy.

The internal statistic tracking capabilities of VuFind 2.0 are improved over 1.x -- you can track to different targets, etc. -- but they're not yet tested in the wild, so there's probably still room for further improvement.  Admittedly, Sean's presentation made me feel that handling this from outside may be more desirable -- but at the same time, there are obvious risks/drawbacks to relying on Google for your stats.

- Demian

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tod Olson [mailto:tod@...]
> Sent: Monday, November 05, 2012 9:02 AM
> To: vufind-general@...
> Subject: [VuFind-General] Use statistics for VuFind
> 
> VuFind General,
> 
> How are the different sites currently handling usage statistics for VuFind? As
> I understand it, this is currently a recognized need in VuFind, but there are
> bigger fish for to fry at the moment.
> 
> We are looking ahead at a need to report usage stats for a variety of reasons,
> so it would be useful to hear other sites' current strategies for reporting.
> 
> Best,
> 
> -Tod
> 
> 
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Tod,

> How are the different sites currently handling usage statistics for VuFind? As I
> understand it, this is currently a recognized need in VuFind, but there are
> bigger fish for to fry at the moment.
> 
> We are looking ahead at a need to report usage stats for a variety of reasons,
> so it would be useful to hear other sites' current strategies for reporting.

Since a few days we're using PIWIK for usage statistics. PIWIK was mentioned in this list just a few weeks  ago:

<http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=29922724>

We use PIWIK's "Site Search" feature to track the searches, which seems to work very well.

To the other PIWIK users: For which purpose do you use PIWIK's "goals"?

Regards,
Christian

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The message thread "How are you gathering VUFind usage statistics?" in 
VuFind-General from 4th October is worth a look. We (and some others) 
are using Piwik and liking it.

--Ere

5.11.2012 16.01, Tod Olson kirjoitti:
> VuFind General,
>
> How are the different sites currently handling usage statistics for VuFind? As I understand it, this is currently a recognized need in VuFind, but there are bigger fish for to fry at the moment.
>
> We are looking ahead at a need to report usage stats for a variety of reasons, so it would be useful to hear other sites' current strategies for reporting.
>
> Best,
>
> -Tod
>
>
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Where on the VUFind page(s) do you embed the PIWIK code?
Thanks
Kurt
 
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From: Christian.Hauschke@... [mailto:Christian.Hauschke@...]
Sent: Tue 11/6/2012 3:43 AM
To: vufind-general@...
Subject: Re: [VuFind-General] Use statistics for VuFind



Tod,

> How are the different sites currently handling usage statistics for VuFind? As I
> understand it, this is currently a recognized need in VuFind, but there are
> bigger fish for to fry at the moment.
>
> We are looking ahead at a need to report usage stats for a variety of reasons,
> so it would be useful to hear other sites' current strategies for reporting.

Since a few days we're using PIWIK for usage statistics. PIWIK was mentioned in this list just a few weeks  ago:

<http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=29922724>

We use PIWIK's "Site Search" feature to track the searches, which seems to work very well.

To the other PIWIK users: For which purpose do you use PIWIK's "goals"?

Regards,
Christian

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Hi Kurt,

> Where on the VUFind page(s) do you embed the PIWIK code?

Directly above the </body> tag in layout.tpl. This way it is embedded in every page in our VuFind installation: <https://katalog.bib.hs-hannover.de/>

I had to put the javascript in {literal} tags, because everything within braces was misunderstood as Smarty stuff.

<script type="text/javascript">
 {literal}
var pkBaseURL ...
{/literal} 
</script>

This way it works. In PIWIK you can use the "Site Search" settings ("Settings" -> "Websites" -> "Edit") to track the search behavior. I started with the following settings: 
Query parameter: lookfor
Category parameter: type,filter

Further suggestions are welcome!

Kind regards,
Christian

Hi Christian,

thanks for the tipp with the {literal} tags.

For those of the piwik-newbies who tend to copy and paste everything on offer,
I've got another little tip.

At the beginning and end of the piwik-tracker-code are html-comments that need
to be "embraced" with smarty comment-tags (e.g. {* <!-- Piwik --> *} )...

In order to get a few more interesting places colored in on our piwik-world-map,
it would be very nice, if some of you could visit our vufind at:
http://194.94.3.187/vufind/

Thanks! :-)

Kate

Am 06.11.2012 16:31 schrieb Christian.Hauschke@...:
> Hi Kurt,
> 
>> Where on the VUFind page(s) do you embed the PIWIK code?
> 
> Directly above the </body> tag in layout.tpl. This way it is embedded in every page in our VuFind installation: <https://katalog.bib.hs-hannover.de/>
> 
> I had to put the javascript in {literal} tags, because everything within braces was misunderstood as Smarty stuff.
> 
> <script type="text/javascript">
>  {literal}
> var pkBaseURL ...
> {/literal} 
> </script>
> 
> This way it works. In PIWIK you can use the "Site Search" settings ("Settings" -> "Websites" -> "Edit") to track the search behavior. I started with the following settings: 
> Query parameter: lookfor
> Category parameter: type,filter
> 
> Further suggestions are welcome!
> 
> Kind regards,
> Christian
> 
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> Stay in control, update software, and manage PCs from one command center
> Diagnose problems and improve visibility into emerging IT issues
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