Having had a wonderful time at ILI2007 last year (summary of my talk, according to Brian Kelly – “For most of the people, most of the time, Google’s good enough – get over it…”, though I like to think I was actually talking about the idea of search hubs), I’ve joined forces with Hassan Sheikh … Continue reading “Library Analytics (Part 1)”
In Library Analytics (Part 1), I did a few “warm-up” exercises looking at the OU LIbrary website from a Google Aanlytics perspective. In this post, I’m going to do a little more scene setting, looking at how some of Google Analytics visual reports can provide a quick’n’dirty, glanceable display of the most heavily trafficked areas … Continue reading “Library Analytics (Part 2)”
In this third post of an open-ended series looking at the OU Library website under Google analytics, I’ll pick out some ‘headline’ reports that describe the most popular items in one of the most popular content areas identified in Library Analytics (Part 2): databases. Most Popular Databases I can imagine that a headline report that … Continue reading “Library Analytics (Part 3)”
One of the things I fondly remember about doing physics at school was being told, at the start of each school year, how what we had been told the previous year was not quite exactly true, and that this year we would actually learn how the world worked properly… And so as this series of … Continue reading “Library Analytics (Part 4)”
Another day, another Library Analytics post… Today, a quick glimpse at another popular content area on the OU Library website, the “Subject Resource Collections” that dangle off http://library.open.ac.uk/find/eresources/. Most Popular Subject Resource Collections The distribution of visits to subject resource collections is pretty flat, as the following report shows: That said, the most popular categories … Continue reading “Library Analytics (Part 5)”
In this post, I’m going to have a quick look at some filtered reports I set up a few days ago to see if they are working as I expected. What do I mean by this? Well, Google Analytics lets you create filters that can be used to create reports for a site that focus … Continue reading “Library Analytics (Part 6)”
In the previous post in this series, I showed how it’s possible to identify traffic referred from particular course pages in the OU VLE, by creating a user defined variable that captured the complete (nasty) VLE referrer URL. Now I’m not definitely sure about this, but I think that the Library provides URLs to the … Continue reading “Library Analytics (Part 7)”
In Library Analytics (Part 7), I posted a couple of ideas about how it might be an idea if the Library started crafting URLs for the the Library resources pages for individual courses in the Moodle VLE that contained a campaign tracking code, so that we could track the behaviour of students coming into the … Continue reading “Library Analytics (Part 8)”
For what it’s worth, slides from my presentation yesterday… As ever, they’re largely pointless without commentary… … and even with the commentary, it was all a bit more garbled than usual (I forgot to breathe, had no real idea in my own mind what I wanted to say, etc etc…) On reflection, here’s what I … Continue reading “Slides from OU Rise Library Analytics Workshop: Rambling about Visualisation”
The OU Library website has been running Google Analytics for ages, but from what I can tell they haven’t done a hug amount with the results in terms of making the analytics actionable and using them to improve the site design (I’d love for someone to correct me with a blog post or two about … Continue reading “OU Library Home Page – Normalised Click Density”
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