Add more information about File Downloads to Statistics Reports
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Key: DS-600
URL: http://jira.dspace.org/jira/browse/DS-600
Project: DSpace 1.x
Issue Type: Improvement
Components: Solr
Affects Versions: 1.6.1, 1.6.0
Reporter: Tim Donohue
This comes out of a conversation with Claudia Juergen on IRC.
Currently, in 1.6.1, the following Stats are captured:
Visits -- total views of Item splash page only
Visits per Month
File Downloads -- file download stats
Top Country Visits
Top City Visits
The oddity in those reports is that most of the statistics only detail
information about views of the Item splash page. As Google often provides
users with direct links to download files, the stats report will sometimes end
up looking very "odd" to normal users. As any example, here's a sample stats
report from an item in Claudia's repository:
Total Visits - 5
File Downloads - 300
This looks odd to many users -- why has this item only been visited 5 times,
but downloaded 300 times? The reality is that many users jumped straight to
downloading the file(s) as Google provided them with a direct link to the
files. So, although these stats may be correct, they look odd as the numbers
don't seem to total up properly.
I'd propose we change the definitely of what a "Visit" means, so that these
statistics make more sense overall. For example, redefining it as follows:
Visit = Item Views + File Downloads (it would be also nice to potentially
split out *how* many of the visits are Item Views, and how many come from File
downloads)
So, in that way, using the above example, you'd have a stats report more like:
Total Visits - 305 (5 Item Views, 300 File Downloads)
File Downloads - would still detail individual file downloads, totaling up to
300
It'd also be nice to count File Downloads as part of the "Total Visits per
month", "Top Country Visits", and "Top City Visits". That way all the totals
would match up better, and you'd also have a better sense of where the files
were being downloaded from (and how many downloads happened in the last month).
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