[tei-council] tei-c.org web stats?

[Hugh Cayless]

Since GA relies on browser-triggered javascript to execute and load the GA script by dynamically adding a <script> tag to the page, it won’t receive any notifications from bots, unless they go to the trouble of running javascript on the page. I believe the Googlebot does do that to an extent, but it wouldn’t trigger its own analytics. I can’t remember ever seeing any info about bots in GA. That’s one (sort of) advantage to things like Urchin, which run off your own request stats—they’re actually looking at all the data. Of course, most people don’t care about bots unless they cause performance degradation.

I’d be interested. Google ID: philomousos

Hugh

On Oct 13, 2014, at 13:12 , Martin Holmes <mholmes at uvic.ca> wrote:

> On 14-10-13 09:46 AM, James Cummings wrote:
>> On 13/10/14 17:32, Martin Holmes wrote:
>>> My google id is martindholmes.
>> 
>> added with full admin rights
>>> That'll be it. It's possible that every bibl link on a Glines page will
>>> send a spider off to crawl it, because it has a different fragment id on
>>> the end of it.
>> 
>> That is a possibility.  Most of our traffic overall seems to come
>> via google.
>> 
>>> Interesting. Releases seem such a big deal to us, but I guess
>>> they don't really matter to most regular users.
>> 
>> Let me know if you find out any other interesting data now that
>> I've given you access. Might make good fodder for the report at
>> the members meeting. ;-)  Is there a way to filter our the
>> spiders in any reliable manner?
> 
> I'm no expert on Google Analytics, but with Urchin (which we use at 
> UVic), I find you usually have to hike the data out into a spreadsheet 
> and mess with it. The spiders are pretty obvious from their user agent 
> strings, though.
> 
> Cheers,
> Martin
> 
>> -James
>> 
>> 
>>> Cheers, Martin
>> 
>>>> -James
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> On 13/10/14 14:48, Martin Holmes wrote:
>>>>> Hi all,
>>>>> 
>>>>> Does anyone know whether the web stats for tei-c.org are public
>>>>> anywhere? Ron and I would like to know how many people have downloaded
>>>>> the journal authoring package so far from the wiki. I'd also be quite
>>>>> interested in seeing stats for the Guidelines, especially around release
>>>>> time, and wiki pages.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Cheers,
>>>>> Martin
>>>> 
>> 
>> 
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