Comments on: Library Analytics (Part 1) http://blog.ouseful.info/2008/08/20/library-analytics-part-1/ Trying to find useful things to do with emerging technologies in open education Thu, 20 Jun 2013 07:11:17 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: techspottr.com » Continuing the Conversation: Library Analytics http://blog.ouseful.info/2008/08/20/library-analytics-part-1/#comment-19011 Fri, 13 Jan 2012 22:01:00 +0000 http://ouseful.wordpress.com/?p=78#comment-19011 [...] Measuring Website Usage http://coi.gov.uk/guidance.php?page=235 (from http://coi.gov.uk/guidance.php?page=229) Library Analytics (Part 1) http://blog.ouseful.info/2008/08/20/library-analytics-part-1/ [...]

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]]> By: Tony Hirst http://blog.ouseful.info/2008/08/20/library-analytics-part-1/#comment-54 Thu, 21 Aug 2008 23:23:05 +0000 http://ouseful.wordpress.com/?p=78#comment-54 Brad –

Thanks for the insight from a designer’s point of view – if you were willing to be even more specific about any of the points, I’d be all ears…

…similarly if there were any reports you wanted me to run to test any hypotheses you have about user behaviour, just ask and I’ll see what I can do..

(The idea of posting this stuff in public is to try and learn from as many people as possible about how to read/ask questions of/interpret the analytics data…:-)

]]> By: Brad Czerniak http://blog.ouseful.info/2008/08/20/library-analytics-part-1/#comment-52 Thu, 21 Aug 2008 13:23:07 +0000 http://ouseful.wordpress.com/?p=78#comment-52 I’m not sure if this is helpful, but as a designer visiting the OU Library site for the first time, I could see something of a reason for the data you observed.
Upon loading, the eye seems to travel in a diagonal motion from top left to bottom right. The most prominent data on the page is actually the Library news, even if there are not a lot of observed clicks. The page’s “weight” seems to be uneven to the right, causing this observed eye motion.
As Jakob Nielsen’s research suggests, the eye naturally moves in an F-shaped motion on conventional web pages. http://www.useit.com/alertbox/reading_pattern.html
For some reason most likely based on conventional expectations, I then felt drawn to the featured links. These happen to be the useful links, so it’s natural that they’re popular.
If the search box deserves to be more prominent, it should be so — both semantically and stylistically.
The picture links are red herring — they’re pictures of people, but the pictures themselves have little to do with the links or the University. They look so much like stock photos that ignoring them feels like the right thing to do — is the middle one Angie Harmon?
I could get much more specific about things, but those were the biggies that jumped out and had the most to do with the analytics data you observed.

]]> By: Marky B http://blog.ouseful.info/2008/08/20/library-analytics-part-1/#comment-50 Thu, 21 Aug 2008 06:42:06 +0000 http://ouseful.wordpress.com/?p=78#comment-50 All very interesting stuff Tony.
Your comments about coming via the intranet and making the sensible inference that they were from on-site users.

I may be in the error bar (i.e. outlier), but I do almost all my
research / library work at home – but I log into the OU and go
onto the library via the “my links” bit set to the OU journals
and OU databases www page. So that would show as in intranet
user? but I work remotely.

The reason I go through the intranet is probably ’cause of your
comments re library www page. But it is getting better isn’t it
with an excellent update to ORO this week
(http://oro.open.ac.uk/)

Look forward to part II,
cheers, Mark

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