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Using AWStats to Analyze Logs from EZProxy and from the
Public OPAC Logs Stacey Knight-Davis
Eastern Illinois University
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Log Analysis With Google Analytics Query String Added Extras!
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Log only exists when turned on!
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Why might the access log be Off? • It’s big
• It grows bigger every day
• Balancing patron privacy and data driven decision making
ILA best practice is to delete old logs or anonymize them
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What might be in a log?
• Images served
• Pages served
• Search terms, if configured to do so
• Date
• Time
• User’s Browser
• User’s IP
• User’s login
Personally Identifying Information – Protect it!
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Where can I get logs?
• CARLI search logs
• Pre-anonymized for your convivence
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Stuff you Need • Download Them All – Firefox Plugin
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/downthemall
• 7zip http://www.7-zip.org/
• Log URL https://www.carli.illinois.edu/logs/
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Without analysis, logs are about as useful as a chunk of wood
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Analyzing logs to make them Useful
• AWStats
• Unpleasant to install
• Requires full admin rights
• Requires IIS or Apache
• Requires Perl
• Can be run on Windows
• Can be run on a desktop
• http://www.awstats.org/
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What does AWStats do?
• Finds all the matching needles in the haystack
We need the needles that match our CARLI code
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Most viewed records at EIU, 2/19/2017-4/19
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Click the link to see what it is
• Encyclopedia of public relations (156)
• Business regulation in the Common Market nations (129)
• Hispanic-serving institutions : advancing research and transformative practice (43)
• Higher education in America (43 CARLI EBL)
• Higher education in the digital age (43 CARLI EBL)
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Other Log Sources
• EZ Proxy Access Log
• This will not be sanitized unless you sanitize it yourself
• Contains IP address
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EZ Proxy logs can tell us
• What is used off campus
• What time of day users are online
• Top downloaded articles
• Usage by provider (requires some Excel work)
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Special Bonus Feature: Google Analytics
Google Analytics can capture search terms from a locally hosted search box.
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Go to All Pages, Filter for query string
• Filter for your query string
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Finding Search Terms from Article Searches
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The end
• Questions?
• Comments?
• Presentation is posted on CARLI website