[Evergreen-web-team] EG Site Map stuff

Jim Craner jim at galecia.com
Fri Feb 8 11:44:29 EST 2013


Hi Ben,

Great tips, thanks!
-jc


>  -------Original Message-------
>  From: Ben Shum <bshum at biblio.org>
>  To: evergreen-web-team at list.evergreen-ils.org
>  Subject: Re: [Evergreen-web-team] EG Site Map stuff
>  Sent: 08 Feb '13 11:30
>  
>  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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