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Re: Statisitcal package to count URL hits- Does it exist?

That, like all other solutions mentioned, will only count the traffic
through the library. Unless you have all traffic from the university go
thru the proxy server, or filter or analyze the entire outgoing traffic
from the university (which comes to the same thing), you will still miss
the people who go direct or through links. Estimates of the proportion in
science I have heard varies from 10 to 90%.  Quite apart from the
feasibility, I think it would not be a good idea from privacy
considerations to analyze all the univ. traffic. Not that you need capture
personal data, but it's a dangerous precedent.

David Goodman, Princeton University Biology Library				
dgoodman@princeton.edu            609-258-3235


On Sat, 9 Jun 2001, Mark Jordan wrote:

> Hi Liz,
> 
> I took your question to mean links to external resources, not to links on
> your own website. One way of counting usage of external resources linked
> from your site is to have all traffic in your library pass through a proxy
> server, and then apply packages like analog (mentioned below in Brig's
> email) to get statistical analysis of the proxy logs. You may want to ask
> your Systems people about this option.
> 
> What I describe only works for users within your library however, and
> would be difficult to implement for users who are not physically in your
> library.
> 
> 
> Mark Jordan
> Librarian / Analyst, Systems Division
> W.A.C. Bennett Library, Simon Fraser University
> Burnaby, British Columbia, V5A 1S6, Canada
> Phone (604) 291 5753 / Fax (604) 291 3023
> mjordan@sfu.ca / http://www.sfu.ca/~mjordan/
> 
> 
> On Thu, 7 Jun 2001, Brig C. McCoy wrote:
> 
> > I've been using a nice package called Analog <http://www.analog.cx>. It's
> > free, highly configurable, and works for UNIX and Windows platforms. I've
> > got the handout from a presentation I did on Analog on my web site at:
> > <http://world.std.com/~brigc/presentations/triconf/2001/>.
> >
> > Brig C. McCoy           Head, Systems Office
> > Linda Hall Library of Science, Engineering and Technology
> > 5109 Cherry St          816 926-8749
> > Kansas City, MO  64110