Collecting Statistics in Luminis (Northeast Users Conference 2006)

Collecting Statistics in Luminis Presented by: Zachary Tirrell Plymouth State University December 4, 2006 Course ID 17

Introduction

Purpose: To help you make data driven decisions

Benefits of the session

Find out ways to collect data in Luminis

Learn to extract business questions from data

Find out about many free tools you can start using immediately

Agenda

Overview of Plymouth State

Collecting Stats with Luminis

Comparing with WebCT

Alumni/Discoverer

Google Analytics

Alexa

Uptime

Plymouth State University Overview

Small town Plymouth in northern New Hampshire

4000 FTE undergraduates, 500 FTE graduates

Small class sizes

Growing distance education program

High demand for web delivered services

Expectation to serve all constituents

Tight knit, collaborative community

Collecting Statistics in Luminis Luminis has them, learn where and how to make them useful

How and Where?

Simple Method:

session.log in $CP_ROOT/logs

Write a parser to read data, in our case put into Oracle

2006-11-03 14:10:02,091: user logout: auser 2006-11-03 14:10:03,417: user login: mmouse 2006-11-03 14:10:03,450: user login: jpseudo 2006-11-03 14:10:04,970: user login: ggodfried 2006-11-03 14:10:05,109: user logout: mmouse 2006-11-03 14:10:05,521: user login: zbtirrell 2006-11-03 14:10:09,328: user login: pparker

Complex/Detailed Method:

RDBMSStatsRecorder

In portal.properties change,

#org.jasig.portal.services.stats.StatsRecorderFactory.implementation=org.jasig.portal.services.stats.DoNothingStatsRecorderFactory

to

org.jasig.portal.services.stats.StatsRecorderFactory.implementation=org.jasig.portal.services.stats.LoggingStatsRecorderFactory

Detailed PHP-based write up available on LumDev: ( http:// www.lumdev.net/index.php?q =node/147 )

Or a Perl version by villiam on LumDev: ( http:// www.lumdev.net/index.php?q =node/343 )

WebCT and Luminis Statistics gathered in WebCT lead to some interesting questions and comparisons with Luminis statistics

WebCT Stats Make Us Ask Questions…

Are we looking at a 4, 5, or 6 day work week?

What’s happening Sunday night?

Is our maintenance window properly placed on Sunday morning?

http://djbramer.blogs.plymouth.edu/2006/05/08/webct-usage-peaks-51-506/ http://djbramer.blogs.plymouth.edu/2006/05/03/webct-the-6-day-work-week/

Comparing WebCT with Luminis http://djbramer.blogs.plymouth.edu/2006/06/11/webct-the-6-day-work-week-part-ii/

Comparing Saturday and Sunday http://djbramer.blogs.plymouth.edu/2006/06/11/webct-the-6-day-work-week-part-ii/

Comparing Friday and Sunday http://djbramer.blogs.plymouth.edu/2006/06/11/webct-the-6-day-work-week-part-ii/

Google Analytics More answers to questions with limited time invested.

About Google Analytics

Get a Google Analytics account

http://www.google.com/analytics/

Used to be urchin, until Google bought them

Simply place this code on pages you want tracked:

<script src="http://www.google-analytics.com/urchin.js" type="text/javascript">

</script>

<script type="text/javascript">

_uacct = "UA-######-#";

urchinTracker();

</script>

Operating Systems

Flash Versions

Browser Usage

How’s the adoption of Internet Explorer 7? (11/3)

How’s the adoption of Firefox 2? (11/3)

Global Reach of Plymouth.edu

Global Reach of Nosheep.net

Alexa - For Comparing With Others When you feel a need to compare your web position in the world with others, Alexa is your friend.

Info you can get from Alexa Traffic Rank: 55,254 (11/3) Traffic Rank: 55,254 (11/3)

Plymouth Compared to UNH Why is Plymouth So Spiky?

Simple Channel We Built

Summary

Stats exist in Luminis, but take some work to extract

Data driven decisions

Alexa and Google Analytics provide useful information, for free!

Luminis IV is supposed to provide new exciting out of the box solutions

Zachary Tirrell

[email_address]

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Course ID 17

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