NORTHEAST USERS CONFERENCE 2006 1

Collecting Statistics in Luminis

Presented by: Zachary Tirrell

Plymouth State University

December 4, 2006

Course ID 17

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Introduction

• Purpose: To help you make data driven decisions

• Benefits of the session• Find out ways to collect data in Luminis• Learn to extract business questions from data• Find out about many free tools you can start using

immediately

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Agenda

• Overview of Plymouth State

• Collecting Stats with Luminis

• Comparing with WebCT

• Alumni/Discoverer

• Google Analytics

• Alexa

• Uptime

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Plymouth State University Overview

• Small town Plymouth in northern New Hampshire

• 4000 FTE undergraduates, 500 FTE graduates

• Small class sizes

• Growing distance education program

• High demand for web delivered services

• Expectation to serve all constituents

• Tight knit, collaborative community

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Collecting Statistics in Luminis

Luminis has them, learn where and how to make them useful

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How and Where?

Simple Method:

• session.log in $CP_ROOT/logs

• Write a parser to read data, in our case put into Oracle

2006-11-03 14:10:02,091: user logout: auser2006-11-03 14:10:03,417: user login: mmouse2006-11-03 14:10:03,450: user login: jpseudo2006-11-03 14:10:04,970: user login: ggodfried2006-11-03 14:10:05,109: user logout: mmouse2006-11-03 14:10:05,521: user login: zbtirrell2006-11-03 14:10:09,328: user login: pparker

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Complex/Detailed Method:

• RDBMSStatsRecorder

• In portal.properties change, #org.jasig.portal.services.stats.StatsRecorderFactory.implementation=org

.jasig.portal.services.stats.DoNothingStatsRecorderFactory

to

org.jasig.portal.services.stats.StatsRecorderFactory.implementation=org.jasig.portal.services.stats.LoggingStatsRecorderFactory

• Detailed PHP-based write up available on LumDev: (http://www.lumdev.net/index.php?q=node/147)

• Or a Perl version by villiam on LumDev: (http://www.lumdev.net/index.php?q=node/343)

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WebCT and Luminis

Statistics gathered in WebCT lead to some interesting questions and comparisons with Luminis statistics

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http://djbramer.blogs.plymouth.edu/2006/05/08/webct-usage-peaks-51-506/

http://djbramer.blogs.plymouth.edu/2006/05/03/webct-the-6-day-work-week/

WebCT Stats Make Us Ask Questions…

• Are we looking at a 4, 5, or 6 day work week?

• What’s happening Sunday night?

• Is our maintenance window properly placed on Sunday morning?

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http://djbramer.blogs.plymouth.edu/2006/06/11/webct-the-6-day-work-week-part-ii/

Comparing WebCT with Luminis

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http://djbramer.blogs.plymouth.edu/2006/06/11/webct-the-6-day-work-week-part-ii/

Comparing Saturday and Sunday

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http://djbramer.blogs.plymouth.edu/2006/06/11/webct-the-6-day-work-week-part-ii/

Comparing Friday and Sunday

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Google Analytics

More answers to questions with limited time invested.

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About Google Analytics

• Get a Google Analytics account• http://www.google.com/analytics/

• Used to be urchin, until Google bought them

• Simply place this code on pages you want tracked:

<script src="http://www.google-analytics.com/urchin.js" type="text/javascript">

</script>

<script type="text/javascript">

_uacct = "UA-######-#";

urchinTracker();

</script>

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Operating Systems

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Flash Versions

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Browser Usage

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How’s the adoption of Internet Explorer 7? (11/3)

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How’s the adoption of Firefox 2? (11/3)

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Global Reach of Plymouth.edu

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Global Reach of Nosheep.net

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Alexa - For Comparing With Others

When you feel a need to compare your web position in the world with others, Alexa is your friend.

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Info you can get from Alexa

Traffic Rank: 55,254 (11/3)

Traffic Rank: 55,254 (11/3)

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Plymouth Compared to UNH

Why is Plymouth So Spiky?

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Simple Channel We Built

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Summary

• Stats exist in Luminis, but take some work to extract

• Data driven decisions

• Alexa and Google Analytics provide useful information, for free!

• Luminis IV is supposed to provide new exciting out of the box solutions

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Zachary Tirrellzbtirrell@plymouth.edu

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