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It is often extremely helpful to measure user behavior in order to evaluate strengths and weaknesses of your user interface, your indexing rules and your underlying collection. | It is often extremely helpful to measure user behavior in order to evaluate strengths and weaknesses of your user interface, your indexing rules and your underlying collection. | ||
- | VuFind | + | VuFind® |
===== Google Analytics ===== | ===== Google Analytics ===== | ||
- | [[https:// | + | [[https:// |
==== Some Tips for Using Google Analytics ==== | ==== Some Tips for Using Google Analytics ==== | ||
- | Google Analytics provides a variety of ways to track web traffic to gain a better understanding of how users find and use your website. | + | Google Analytics provides a variety of ways to track web traffic to gain a better understanding of how users find and use your website. |
* Use the Content Drilldown option to examine what parts of the site users are visiting.\\ On the sidebar menu, navigate to Behavior -> Site Content -> Content Drilldown. In the main pane select /vufind/ in the Page path level 1 column.\\ This will show you the number of page views of records (/ | * Use the Content Drilldown option to examine what parts of the site users are visiting.\\ On the sidebar menu, navigate to Behavior -> Site Content -> Content Drilldown. In the main pane select /vufind/ in the Page path level 1 column.\\ This will show you the number of page views of records (/ | ||
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===== Matomo 4+ ===== | ===== Matomo 4+ ===== | ||
- | // Available starting with VuFind | + | // Available starting with VuFind® |
(see also legacy Piwik/ | (see also legacy Piwik/ | ||
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This may skew your results in unpredictable ways, so be sure to test carefully. It may be necessary to create a special custom layout template and adjust additional code if you wish to track AJAX statistics in some cases but not others. | This may skew your results in unpredictable ways, so be sure to test carefully. It may be necessary to create a special custom layout template and adjust additional code if you wish to track AJAX statistics in some cases but not others. | ||
- | ===== Built-In Statistics Collection | + | ===== Google Tag Manager |
- | :!::!: This feature was disabled in VuFind 4.0; it is strongly recommended that you use Google Analytics or Piwik instead, as these are more robust solutions. :!::!: | + | // Available starting with VuFind® 9.0. // |
- | The [Statistics] section | + | [[https:// |
- | * A MySQL database table | + | Configure VuFind®' |
- | * A Solr index | + | |
- | * A file on disk | + | |
- | Reports on this data can be generated in VuFind' | + | ==== Enhanced UI Tracking with GTM and GA4 ==== |
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+ | Event Tracking in GA can be used to measure the use of particular UI features beyond page navigation. | ||
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+ | ===== Built-In Statistics Collection ===== | ||
- | :!: VuFind' | + | :!: Early versions of VuFind® included |
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+ | properties.Page Owner : | ||
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configuration/usage_stats.1638965604.txt.gz · Last modified: 2021/12/08 12:13 by emaijala