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Overview

A module for Drupal 7 to track views and downloads of Islandora items. Features include:

  • Toggle to ignore common bots
  • View count uses session variables and defaults to a 5 minute cooldown for repeated requests
  • Access log for all views and downloads
  • IP Exclusion list to prevent artificially inflating counts while testing/developing/administrating
  • Several customizable blocks to display metrics
  • Report generating interface
  • Object log views integration
Warning

Does not respect XACML or namespace restrictions.


Note

This is a server-side tracking solution, as such a caching layer could impact it. If this is impacting you, a solution using JavaScript may work better.

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Configuration

Configuration options are available at http://path.to.your.site/admin/islandora/tools/islandora_usage_stats.

 

What Information is Being Collected

Islandora Usage Stats collects each view of the object, where a person browses to the web interface for the object, and each download of each datastream associated with that object. Islandora might not provide a download button for all objects. For example, if you don't have a "Download" button for Videos on your Islandora site, then download counts will not be collected for a Video object.

When a download or a view is recorded, this information is added to information about the object. All that Islandora does is to add 1 to a view count or download count. There isn't any IP information nor any information about the date and time. Therefor, it is not possible to pull a report by fiscal year or to scope statistics by date.

The kind of displays that are possible are similar to what might show up on SSRN:  just a plain old view and download count, but not any more fine grained information.

Enabling Display

To display Collection Usage Stats, configure the Usage Stats for Collections block at http://path.to.your.site/admin/structure/block and select your region and theme.