Surfacing Google Analytics stats in DSpace

In the recent survey asking the DSpace community for their top 3 feature requests for DSpace 1.6, the number one most requested feature was statistics. As you’ll know from previous posts, I’m a big fan of Google Analytics.
For the uninitiated, you insert a small bit of JavaScript in your web pages, and Google provide a [...]

Posted on May 29, 2009 at 4:03 am by Stuart · Permalink · 16 Comments
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Update your Google Analytics Tracking Code

Just in case you missed the announcement from Google Analytics, they have just updated their tracking code snippet. The snippet is a couple of bits of JavaScript that first download the relevant copy of the analytics code (depending whether your site is SSL protected or not – so they don’t see security warnings from their [...]

Posted on January 17, 2009 at 7:55 pm by Stuart · Permalink · 3 Comments
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Google Analytics is not a statistics package!

As everyone knows I’m a big fan of using Google Analytics with repositories in order to see what is happening with your repository with respect to visitors – what they are looking at / which links they are following / where they are coming from / how many people are visiting the site etc.
However from [...]

Posted on July 29, 2008 at 3:48 pm by Stuart · Permalink · 5 Comments
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Tracking repository searches from the inside

One of the many great features of Google Analytics is that it can shown the search terms that visitors to your site have used in search engines. This is a great tool for finding out what brings users to your repository.
Seven months ago Google launched a new feature in Google Analytics that also allows you [...]

Posted on June 6, 2008 at 6:55 am by Stuart · Permalink · 2 Comments
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Repository bounce rates

I’ve often wondered about what people do when they visit a repository, and whether what they are doing while visiting the repository could be considered ‘good’ in terms of the usefulness and general aims of the repository. Let me explain… I’m a big fan of Google Analytics, and one of the things it lets you [...]

Posted on May 26, 2008 at 6:39 pm by Stuart · Permalink · 2 Comments
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