Hi,

On 21/06/13 09:24, Terry Brady wrote:
When viewing statistics in DSpace 1.7, what constitutes a "visit" to a community or to a collection?  If a user browses multiple items within a community during a single session, is that counted as only 1 visit?

As far as I know, a community/collection visit is a view of the community's/collection's start page (type:3 / type:4).

I am trying to correlate what I see in the statistics reports with what I am able to extract from SOLR using the following query to observe items views.
  • q=owningComm:1 type:2
  • facet=true
  • facet.date=time
  • facet.date.start=NOW/MONTH/DAY-3YEARS
  • facet.date.end=NOW
  • facet.date.gap=%2B1MONTH

As you said, this will get you the number of item (type:2) views. This is a completely separate number from community/collection visits. Each user action is only ever counted under a single type. So downloading a bitstream by going directly to the bitstream URL will trigger a type 0 event (and only this event); visiting an item page will trigger a type 2 event (and only this event); visiting a collection page will trigger a type 3 event (and only this event) and so on. This will get blurred a little bit if you have thumbnail images on your item pages or recent submission lists and count hits to bitstreams in bundles other than ORIGINAL, since then a visit to eg a collection start page with recently submitted, thumbnailed items will trigger the type 3 event plus type 0 events for each thumbnail image.

Does this help?

cheers,
Andrea

-- 
Dr Andrea Schweer
IRR Technical Specialist, ITS Information Systems
The University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand


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