Hi, yesterday I was looking at the access stats in google analytics for a small DSpace repository and found some unexpected peaks that started right after upgrading dspace from 5.5 to 6.0-rc2 on July the 24th (see chart 1). The activity is so high since that day that previous activity seems almost zero.
After checking GA's Network Domain stats I've found that all these new access are caused by 'download' events of bitstreams, and also that more than 90% are BOTs accesses (see chart 2). Dspace 5 introduced a new feature for recording bitstreams downloads in Google analytics (http://jira.duraspace.org/browse/DS-2088) but it seems it did not work previously (in this repo) and that it started to work after upgrading to ds6 (perhaps because of fix https://jira.duraspace.org/browse/DS-2695) Despite it is very nice to record bistream's downloads in Google Analytics, I think that only valid human downloads should be recorded in order to keep trustworthy stats. A temporal fix would be to use GA filters and evict known bot's network domains (googlebot.com , yahoo, etc) from stats, however downloads made by unknown bots would still be recorded and would obfuscate the real numbers, For Now, we will disable GoogleRecorderEventListener. Perhaps someone can give us an idea on how to workaround this issue? Regards, Ariel *CHART 1* <https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/--W_aRtIEQew/V_PZUSetaSI/AAAAAAAAK1g/zEQt-fSw--Ibm0Q-3TZ8vIQbs39CsLdgwCLcB/s1600/Selecci%25C3%25B3n_056.png> *CHART 2* <https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-RzNoJPcXpyI/V_PY1ClHNbI/AAAAAAAAK1c/_DfORXfTOXoxAxodOcjo17iGp4Urdf-NQCLcB/s1600/Selecci%25C3%25B3n_054.png> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "DSpace Technical Support" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to dspace-tech+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to dspace-tech@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/dspace-tech. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
