[Evergreen-web-team] EG Site Map stuff

[Ben Shum]

Hi Jim,

I just wanted to mention that in reviewing the spreadsheet stats you 
included in the first email, I'd just want to make sure that we reviewed 
more than just a single day's collection of stats and also that we 
consider the potential reasons why pages are used the way they are.  The 
top hit in the spreadsheet included is for the opac_help page, and if 
you click on the UI for "Open transitions" on that page, you can see 
that most of the entry points are coming from external library catalogs 
(specifically NC-Cardinal's in many cases).  So it might help to know 
how people reach our site in addition to the fact that some pages are 
more popular than others.

Another link next to the "Open Transitions" is the "Open Page Overlay" 
which is much more interesting to me.  An example of that: 
http://evergreen-ils.org/piwik/index.php?module=Overlay&period=month&date=today&idSite=1#l=http$3A$2F$2Fevergreen-ils.org$2F

The page overlay seems to show a visual breakdown of how often clicks 
were made to various parts of the current website.  I think between 
looking at top pages (and the entry/exit pages related to them) and also 
looking at the common points of interest on the visualized website, we 
can also get a good idea of how people use the site and form some 
directed actions based on past usage.

-- Ben

On 02/08/2013 11:06 AM, Jim Craner wrote:
> Hi Anoop,
>
> Thanks for the back story - I definitely didn't go back that far in the archives when I was looking! :)
>
> I've added the Piwik link to the Web Team analytics page on the wiki.  I've also got a spreadsheet version of the stats
> which I'll try to turn into a sitemap this weekend.
>
> Thanks again!
> Jim
>
>
>
>
>>   -------Original Message-------
>>   From: Anoop Atre <aatre at esilibrary.com>
>>   To: Jim Craner <jim at galecia.com>, Evergreen Community Web Team Email List <evergreen-web-team at list.evergreen-
> ils.org>
>>   Subject: Re: [Evergreen-web-team] EG Site Map stuff
>>   Sent: 08 Feb '13 10:20
>>   
>>   Hi Jim
>>   This has come up previously and the web team has been aware of the Piwik
>>   setup for about a year if not longer. I think you were part of the group
>>   back then and it was just forgotten in the mists of time:
>>   http://georgialibraries.markmail.org/message/y5zc4zaqj5h3p2mf
>>   
>>   It's also been documented on the web administration information page:
>>   http://evergreen-ils.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=website_administration
>>   
>>   Cheers
>>   
>>   On 02/07/2013 08:23 PM, Jim Craner wrote:
>>   > Hi everyone,
>>   >
>>   > It looks like the idea of creating a list of content on the existing EG site for content migration has been batted
> around
>>   > several times, and I know a few of you have worked on attempts to put this together, such as referencing the git
> repo
>>   > holding the web files.
>>   >
>>   > I tried a few different command line spiders and scrapers today without much success, and I am not so hot with
> regex'ing
>>   > so I explored a couple of alternatives, mainly: let's just look at the website analytics and see what is actually being
> visited
>>   > by
>>   > users.
>>   >
>>   > The first time this convo came up, it looks like we noted that the EG server had webalizer installed, but the last
> report
>>   > generated was from 2011 (http://evergreen-ils.org/webalizer/).
>>   >
>>   > I poked around a bit and it appears that since then, somebody installed another open source analytics app called
> Piwik
>>   > (home page here: http://piwik.org/) which I had never even heard of before today but already think is AWESOME.
>>   >
>>   > (I later googled "evergreen ILS" + "piwik" and hilariously found this gem from a developer on the EG IRC logs: "We
>>   > should have webteam check out http://evergreen-ils.org/piwik to see what pages on the current site..." :-)
>>   >
>>   > Anyway, first go to: http://evergreen-ils.org/piwik
>>   >
>>   > Click on Actions > Pages to get a list of pages sorted by popularity...  Note that you can expand the Dokuwiki entry
> at
>>   > the top so that you can drill down and see what the popular wiki pages are!  At the very bottom of each table is a
> little
>>   > option to access that table in export format (several).  I've attached a real quickie example of what we could use
> going
>>   > forward as a base (but I'd likely want to spend a few minutes doing some better searching/filtering in the interface
> before
>>   > creating an actual useful sitemap for us).
>>   >
>>   > More to follow...
>>   > Thanks!
>>   > Jim
>>   >
>>   >
>>   >
>>   >
>>   >
>>   >
>>   >
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