Site Stats: The power of event tracking at a single click in Sakai

Site Stats: The power of event tracking at a single click in Sakai Nuno Fernandes, Feliz Gouveia, Luís Gouveia, Universidade Fernando Pessoa, Portugal Dr. David Roldán Martínez, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia

The beginning of the project
Site usage statistics
Audience:
Sakai administrators
Site maintainers (instructors,…)
Help desk and support staff
Available for Sakai 2.2+ (2.5+ recommended)
Based on Sakai Event service
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Project status
Active development team
Mature tool with 4 years of production deployment
Site Stats 2.1 (to be) released with Sakai 2.7.0

Main features
Summary information about site visits, tool activity and resource activity
Advanced reporting capabilities
System and user defined reports
Table and chart presentation
Data exportable to .csv, .xls and .pdf
Support for several Sakai tools
Complete feature list at:
http://confluence.sakaiproject.org/display/STAT/Features

Site maintainer view
Tool organized in 3 pages:
Overview (summary information for site visits and activity)
Reports (detailed site visit, tool and resource activity reports)
Preferences (configure the tool on a site-basis: define tools or events to be included as activity on overview page)

OVERVIEW PAGE Site maintainer view: March 2010 European Sakai Conference – Valencia - Spain..

Site maintainer view: Overview
Statistics (totals and averages) about site visits and activity

Visits detail:

Activity detail:

Resources detail:

REPORTS PAGE Site maintainer view: March 2010 European Sakai Conference – Valencia - Spain..

Site maintainer view: Reports
Generate reports based on:
site visits
tool events
resource activity
Narrow search by:
specific tools, events or resources
pre-defined or custom time periods
all/specific users, roles, groups or non-matching users
Excel, CSV and PDF file export

Site maintainer view: Reports March 2010 European Sakai Conference – Valencia - Spain..

SITESTATS ADMIN TOOL Administrators, support staff: March 2010 European Sakai Conference – Valencia - Spain..

Admin Tool: Adding to site
Not available to site maintainers by default
Not listed on Worksite Setup/Site Info tools
Granting access:
Add with ‘Administration Workspace > Sites’ tool
Add permission ‘sitestats.admin.view’ to user role
(if not admin)

Admin Tool: Features
Browse/search:
Sites with Site Stats tool only
Access the tool as if within the site
Reports:
Define predefined reports:
Will be available on all sites
Define (private) reports reporting all sites. E.g.,
Most used tool
Site with most file downloads

DEPLOYMENT OPTIONS Administration: March 2010 European Sakai Conference – Valencia - Spain..

Administration: Deployment options
Permission ‘sitestats.view’ is required to use the tool (privacy reasons)
Configurable settings (all optional):
Display options:
Show/hide visits, activity or resource related stats
Predefined reports
Tool/Event definition:
Use default definition file (.xml)
Specify a custom file (.xml) (new or extending default)
Automatically registered via Statisticable EntityBroker capability

Performance related settings:
Event storage:
Default (Sakai DB) : simpler (default)
External DB : reduce load and pool usage on main DB
Event aggregation:
Real-time thread : always up-to-date, may have performance impact on heavy load conditions (default)
Quartz scheduler job : delayed aggregation at low load periods

More performance related settings:
Event filtering:
Discard events from Administrator (default)
Discard events from sites without Site Stats tool (default)
Database indexes:
Huge performance impact
Should be created when setting up tool
Bug in Hibernate prevents the correct creation of table indexes in MySQL when creating tables with auto.ddl = true

DEVELOPER INFORMATION Backstage: March 2010 European Sakai Conference – Valencia - Spain..

Backstage: Developer information
How it works?
Site Stats registers for notifications with the Sakai Event Tracking Service
Aggregates site related events generated by tools in site
Persists aggregated values to hibernate managed tables

Adding support for new tools:
Sakai 2.5.x-
Tool, event details and translation must be provided on .xml files
Manual, tedious work
Sakai 2.6.0+
Developers can implement Statisticable capability from EntityBroker to automatically feed Site Stats with:
Tool Id
Events generated by tool
Localized event descriptions
Adds no dependencies on SiteStats

Project information
Confluence page
http://confluence.sakaiproject.org/display/STAT
JIRA space (bugs/feature requests)
https://source.sakaiproject.org/svn/sitestats
Source code
https://source.sakaiproject.org/svn/sitestats

CONCLUSIONS Finishing… March 2010 European Sakai Conference – Valencia - Spain..

Finishing: Conclusions
Site Stats provides a simple way to get basic information about how your Sakai sites are used
Useful for help desk and support activities
Highly configurable to adapt to different deployments
Open to suggestions and contributions

QUESTIONS? Thank you! March 2010 European Sakai Conference – Valencia - Spain.. Nuno Fernandes - Universidade Fernando Pessoa, Portugal David Roldán Martínez - Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain Where the hell is David?

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