collecting statistics in luminis (northeast users conference 2006)
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A presentation I gave at the SunGard Northeast Regional Users Conference in 2006 about collecting statistics in Luminis.TRANSCRIPT
NORTHEAST USERS CONFERENCE 2006 1
Collecting Statistics in Luminis
Presented by: Zachary Tirrell
Plymouth State University
December 4, 2006
Course ID 17
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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
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Agenda
• Overview of Plymouth State
• Collecting Stats with Luminis
• Comparing with WebCT
• Alumni/Discoverer
• Google Analytics
• Alexa
• Uptime
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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
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Collecting Statistics in Luminis
Luminis has them, learn where and how to make them useful
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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: auser2006-11-03 14:10:03,417: user login: mmouse2006-11-03 14:10:03,450: user login: jpseudo2006-11-03 14:10:04,970: user login: ggodfried2006-11-03 14:10:05,109: user logout: mmouse2006-11-03 14:10:05,521: user login: zbtirrell2006-11-03 14:10:09,328: user login: pparker
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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)
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WebCT and Luminis
Statistics gathered in WebCT lead to some interesting questions and comparisons with Luminis statistics
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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/
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?
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http://djbramer.blogs.plymouth.edu/2006/06/11/webct-the-6-day-work-week-part-ii/
Comparing WebCT with Luminis
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http://djbramer.blogs.plymouth.edu/2006/06/11/webct-the-6-day-work-week-part-ii/
Comparing Saturday and Sunday
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http://djbramer.blogs.plymouth.edu/2006/06/11/webct-the-6-day-work-week-part-ii/
Comparing Friday and Sunday
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Google Analytics
More answers to questions with limited time invested.
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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>
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Operating Systems
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Flash Versions
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Browser Usage
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How’s the adoption of Internet Explorer 7? (11/3)
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How’s the adoption of Firefox 2? (11/3)
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Global Reach of Plymouth.edu
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Global Reach of Nosheep.net
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Alexa - For Comparing With Others
When you feel a need to compare your web position in the world with others, Alexa is your friend.
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Info you can get from Alexa
Traffic Rank: 55,254 (11/3)
Traffic Rank: 55,254 (11/3)
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Plymouth Compared to UNH
Why is Plymouth So Spiky?
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Simple Channel We Built
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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
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Zachary [email protected]
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