Project Name: Web Log Statistics

Project Orginator: Jean Rainwater

Departmental Sponsor: Jean Rainwater

Project Description:
Capture and make web log data accessible for analysis and action by library staff.

Why is this project important?
Web logs provide useful data on page hits, referring URLs, search engines ,etc. In order to improve users experience on the library web, we need to combine this kind of data with the qualitative information we get through LibQual and other user research.

Additional Information:
We currently capture raw logs from pike (dl.lib.brown.edu) but making those logs useful for analysis is not yet automated.

Date Submitted: May 18, 2008

Desired Completion Date: not specified

Status: pending

ITS Staff Responsibility:
BJD (automated log capture), YF

Estimated Completion Date:

Progress Made:
Data is available for some applications and time periods with awstats software - http://dl.lib.brown.edu/logstats/

We are using Google Analytics on some pages.

Edit (Library IT Advisory Council)