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Yale University Library Web Server
(Ogma)
June 2004 Use Highlights
The most frequently used search engine that led to the Yale University Library: Google
Number of visits from Google: 34,220
The most frequently searched word at a Web search engine that led to the Yale University Library: Africa
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Background
Presented here is a very small portion of a report of activity on one Yale University Library web server in June 2004. Most of the library’s web pages are stored on this server (www.library.yale.edu, also known as Ogma). This report does not count activity on other library servers, such as Orbis searches, database and ejournal searches, and Insight or Digital Library searches. The report also does not include activity on the servers for the Yale law and medical libraries.
Summary Yale
University Library Web Page Server (Ogma)
June 2004
Page View Summary
Page Views 2,450,376
Average per Day 81,679
Average Page Views per Visit 6.66
Top 20 Pages Viewed From the Yale University Library Web Page Server (Ogma) June 2004
Page |
Page Views |
|
1 |
Yale University Library; http://www.library.yale.edu/ |
191,559 |
2 |
Databases and Article Searching; http://www.library.yale.edu/databases/ |
19,752 |
3 |
Yale University Divinity School Library ;http://www.library.yale.edu/div/ |
19,071 |
4 |
Online Journals and Newspapers; http://www.library.yale.edu/journals/ |
18,553 |
5 |
Social Science Libraries & Information Services; http://www.library.yale.edu/socsci/ |
15,511 |
6 |
Beinecke Library Home Page; http://www.library.yale.edu/beinecke/ |
10,822 |
7 |
Yale University Library
Goverment Documents & Information Center; |
10,772 |
8 |
General Science Resources; http://www.library.yale.edu/science/subject/general.html |
8,147 |
9 |
ARTS LIBRARY @ YALE; http://www.library.yale.edu/art/aa.html |
7,478 |
10 |
Manuscripts and Archives, Yale University; http://www.library.yale.edu/mssa/ |
6,749 |
11 |
Map Collection - Maps Online; ttp://www.library.yale.edu/MapColl/online.html |
6,398 |
12 |
Yale University Library Research Tools http://www.library.yale.edu/researchtools/ |
5,486 |
13 |
European Maps; http://www.library.yale.edu/MapColl/eur.html |
4,685 |
14 |
Libraries & Collections A-Z; http://www.library.yale.edu/libraries/libraries.html |
4,596 |
15 |
Human Resources - Job Opportunities; http://www.library.yale.edu/lhr/jobs/ |
4,405 |
16 |
Yale University eLibrary; http://www.library.yale.edu/ecollections/ebraryheader.html |
4,230 |
17 |
Fortunoff Video Archive; http://www.library.yale.edu/testimonies/ |
3,968 |
18 |
Remote Authentication Proxy Server; http://www.library.yale.edu/pubstation/proxy/proxy_about.html |
3,570 |
19 |
Yale University Libraries and Collection; http://www.library.yale.edu/libraries/ |
3,494 |
20 |
Email Ettiquette; http://www.library.yale.edu/training/netiquette/ |
3,234 |
Total for top twenty |
352,480 |
|
Percent of all page views |
14.4% |
This report is based on an analysis of the log files for the library’s web server (Ogma) by software called WebTrends. This software was purchased for use by the Library earlier this year. The web server log files record each time a request comes to the server for a particular file. To report activity on the server, WebTrends lets us count by page hits or page views. What is the difference between a page hit and a page view? A single page on the library’s web site might consist of an html file containing text and also containing links to several associated image files. When someone looks at a web page with four images on it, this would be recorded as a single request for the page (one page view on the one html file) plus a separate request for each of the four images links, resulting in five “page hits” recorded in the log file. The page view statistic lets us count some files (for example, html or htm files) as one page view excluding the individual image hits. Page views are considered less inflated and more accurate than page hits (in June 2004, there were well over eight million hits on the library’s web server).
Other Reports
To see the summary of data (saved in
Excel) from Yale University Library web use in June, see http://www.library.yale.edu/ecollections/access/yaleweb/index.html
If you would like to see this report or others in WebTrends dynamic HTML format, go to http://www2.library.yale.edu:1099/remote_login.pl?
Login: anonymous
Password: your
Yale
email account (first.last@yale.edu)
Once in WebTrends, you must highlight "Public access Ogma report" under Profile name, then click on "View report" on the left. This will launch the report. The default shown will be yesterday's data. Find the calendar on the left side of the screen. Click the left arrow to go back a month, and then click on the "June" heading to see the full month. You may also select a "Custom Date Mode" (third button, top left).