Hi Sandra,
We use AWStats to track usage of three sites. This package was
recommended by our CMS supplier (Torchbox) and I find the summary
reports very clear. Torchbox have also recommended that we test Google
Analytics.
Please email me off list if you would like to know more about our use of
AWStats.
Thanks,
Fiona
Fiona Marshall
ICT Strategy Officer
MLA East Midlands
0116 285 1355
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From: Museums Computer Group [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of
Sandra Jackson
Sent: 09 October 2006 12:31
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Subject: Re: Web log file and analytics software use
This discussion of analytics is especially timely for us at the moment.
As
a museum with designated collections, from April 2007 we will be
required
to report to MLA a number of statistics to do with visits, both real and
virtual. Specifically on the web side, they are looking for a quarterly
report of web site visits.
Currently we are using analog (http://www.analog.cx/) to track web site
activity, but it has no provision for the concept of "visits".
So we are now shopping around (with some Designation Challenge Fund
money
from MLA) for a new analytics package that will be able to track
"visits"
(the best definition of a visit I have found, based on log file data, is
based on a key of IP address + system + browser parameters accessing the
site without a period of inactivity greater or equal to than 30 minutes
-
after 30 minutes it's clocked as a new visit).
Of the commercial packages, WebTrends has been mentioned in one MLA case
study. One of our hub museums uses FastStats which is cheaper than
WebTrends.
We would prefer to have something GNU GPL and are looking at AWStats
(http://awstats.sourceforge.net/) at the moment, so would be really
interested to hear from others who are using it at the moment.
Many thanks,
Sandra Jackson
Computer Officer
Sedgwick Museum
www.sedgwickmuseum.org
Department of Earth Sciences
Downing Street
Cambridge
CB2 3EQ
Tel. (01223) 333456
Don't forget the Autumn meeting: 16 November, Natural History Museum,
London
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