On a similar but identical topic, I'm looking to implement proper analytics capturing across all our interactives. As such, I'm trying to find something that can be called from everything from JavaScript, through Flash and to C++ or Quartz applications. A simple web service or image call would do, as long as it were logged and easy to evaluate.
Before I go off and commission something (I'm considering a web service to act as a middle-man between our applications and Google Analytics) I was wondering if any of you wonderful people have any ideas.
Cheers in advance for any advice.
Tom Grinsted
Multimedia Manager
Imperial War Museum
On 22 Jun 2011, at 14:19, "[log in to unmask]" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> We've been using both Google Analytics and log file analysis as a way of comparing figures. In our case we've used Awstats in preference to Webalizer, but the points remain the same I feel. Benefits include being able to easily track direct downloads (pdf & xml being two examples). The key thing though is to make sure it's configured correctly, for example defining which file types to include as 'page views', excluding crawler activity etc. We too see a marked difference in figures between tools, but oddly that disparity is very uneven across various areas of our site.
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> Whilst on the topic, we've also had Reinvigorate running for about six months (hat tip to Seb Chan for suggesting it), which produces yet another different set of stats, but some very nice heat maps to look at user behaviour (click location on page especially). We haven't really explored the stats it generates as extensively as I would have liked, but I'd be interested to hear if anyone else has used this or similar.
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> James
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Museums Computer Group [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of
>> Mia
>> Sent: 22 June 2011 13:56
>> To: [log in to unmask]
>> Subject: Re: analytics or webalizer?
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>> On 22 June 2011 11:47, Maynard, Kate <[log in to unmask]>
>> wrote:
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>>> In compiling my Standard Performance Indicators I have noticed that
>> the number of visits a web site gets is different when I look at the
>> webalizer figures and the Google Analytics. Which one is the most
>> accurate record of visits to a site? I have to provide information on
>> the number of unique visits to sites, and have three different options:
>> the webalizer 'visits' the GA 'visits' (very different to each other)
>> and the GA 'unique visitors'.
>>
>> It's a great question, but unfortunately there's no definitive answer.
>> In general the most appropriate metric will vary according to how
>> it's being used e.g. some museums use different processes for
>> reporting to funders or for internal content analysis; or for
>> understanding changes in visits over time vs raw numbers.
>>
>> You might find this report on the Culture24-led action research
>> project on evaluating online success useful:
>> https://conference.archimuse.com/mw2011/papers/how_to_evaluate_online_s
>> uccess_a_new_piece_of_
>>
>> Cheers, Mia
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