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WebPAC usage metrics AIUG 2010 Lightning Sessions

Kurt Vollmerhause

Millennium Coordinator

QUT Library

CRICOS No. 00213J

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Web Access Logs

• From R2007 on, Apache web (HTTP) server is in front of publicly accessible WebPAC processes

• Logs of client requests automatically saved to: /iidb/http/live/logs

• Files in .gz format, available for use with 3rd party log analysis software of your choice

• Retention: rolling 35 day set (∴ clear monthly)

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Log file data format

%p %h %l %u %t "%r" %>s %b "%{Referer}i" "%{User-Agent}i" %D

%p = Canonical port of the server serving the request

%h = IP address of the client

%l = Remote logname (…)

%u = Remote user (from auth; …)

%t = Date & time of request

%r = First line of request

%s = Status

%b = Size of the response in bytes, excl. HTTP headers

%D = Page load time (milliseconds)

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Sample Apache log file entry

80 131.181.155.88 - - [17/Oct/2009:10:00:33 +1000] "GET /search/~?searchtype=t&searcharg=Research+in+Education+%96+Evidence-based+inquiry&SORT=D&searchscope=8 HTTP/1.1" 200 4058 "http://www.library.qut.edu.au/" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; GTB6; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; InfoPath.1; .NET CLR 3.0.4506.2152; .NET CLR 3.5.30729)" 7958

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QUT practice

• III Web Access Logs archived monthly• Urchin (from Google) instead used as main web

analytics software• Library catalogue + appx. 15 other Library services

profiled• Limited data available; catalogue profiled in March 2010• “Key” QUT sites, e.g. QUT Library web site, use Google

Analytics in parallel (new from Q4 2010)• Web Reports: User-keyed Searches, Indexes Used &

Search Results also analysed

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Local config (Urchin integration)

• With an installed, configured, licensed version of Urchin:

toplogo.html

…

<!-- Urchin stats -->

<script language="Javascript" src="https://logwebstats.qut.edu.au/urchin.js" type="text/javascript">

</script>

<script language="Javascript" type="text/javascript">

_userv=0;

urchinTracker();

</script>

…

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Urchin example: Platform versions

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Urchin example: Browser & platform combos

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Example: Screen resolutions used

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Example: Android OS usage

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Example: Android OS, time series

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Future tasks

• Profile more sites in Urchin, incl. Millennium SSO version of WebPAC

• Compare functionality against Google Analytics, based on QUT Library public web site experience

• Possibly integrate standard III Web Access Logs• Perfect human cloning technology

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Documentation

• Web Access Logs: Wiki http://csdirect.iii.com/lswiki/WebPAC/AccessLogs

• Web Access Logs: CSDirect http://csdirect.iii.com/documentation/weblogs.shtml

• Apache: logging of client requests http://httpd.apache.org/docs/current/mod/mod_log_config.html

• Urchin Software from Google: FAQ http://www.google.com/urchin/faq.html

• Google Analytics: Features http://www.google.com/intl/en/analytics/features.html

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Questions?millennium@qut.edu.au