Islandora & Google Analytics: Tracking by Collection

[cd...@artic.edu]

We migrated to Islandora from CONTENTdm over the past year. Because of the siloed nature of CONTENTdm, it was always easy to get statistics for each separate collection. Of course, now with Islandora and a single database, I'm not certain how to get good statistics in that way since item records don't seem to have any URL markers that define their collection, etc. I can get stats for collection landing page, but have difficulty past that.

Am I missing something that is obvious? Has anyone tried to accomplish something simliar? I feel like there is something I can do with reports, but I don't have the language.

Thanks in advance.

Chris Day

cd...@saic.edu

https://digitalcollections.saic.edu

[dp...@metro.org]

Hi Chris,

Beautiful site! We have a working solution for 2 years already based on Matomo[1] and some custom work we did on Islandora Piwiki (old name of Matomo) that uses custom dimensions to track object membership and objects too. We also track downloads, metadata views and search interaction (what was searched, hits and where people ended)

Setup experience can vary but is not that terrible, we run this on DCMNY.org and have also individual landing pages/stats for each collection so collection managers can produce isolated reports + a full site wide one. All is open source so i would encourage you to give it a try. If you need Metro's help setting up your particular use case you can always contact Anne Karle-Zenith at ann...@metro.org 

[1] https://matomo.org

[2]  https://github.com/DiegoPino/islandora_piwik

Best, hope this helps! (i attached a screenshot)

Diego Pino

Metro.org

[Brandon Weigel]

Diego, that dashboard looks pretty great - a lot nicer than my mostly out of the box implementation of Matomo. If you could share how you set up your custom dimensions to track Islandora collections I would love to try it out. It'd be handy to have on the README for the module, since I imagine it's a very common use case.

[Jared Whiklo]

Hi Chris,

We do something like that using Googles custom variables[1] (which are
now Custom dimensions [2]).

Basically in the template preprocess we store the collection PIDS for
each object. Then in the actual template we add a javascript block [3]
to set the variables/dimensions.

This requires custom theming but can all be done at the theme layer. You
just need to load the javascript at the top[4] but not send the pageview
until the footer[5].

Again this is out of date and I'll need to update it for the latest
tracking, but it allows you to get counts of page views by PID or title
or objects in collections.

Matamo as Diego mentioned also does all of this.

cheers,
jared

[1]
https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/gajs/gaTrackingCustomVariables
[2]
https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/analyticsjs/field-reference#customs
[3]
https://github.com/uml-digitalinitiatives/UofM-Theme_2/blob/master/templates/islandora-audio.tpl.php#L36-L45
[4]
https://github.com/uml-digitalinitiatives/UofM-Theme_2/blob/master/templates/html.tpl.php#L106-L115
[5]
https://github.com/uml-digitalinitiatives/UofM-Theme_2/blob/master/templates/html.tpl.php#L131-L135

On 2018-09-19 9:29 AM, Brandon Weigel wrote:
> Diego, that dashboard looks pretty great - a lot nicer than my mostly
> out of the box implementation of Matomo. If you could share how you set
> up your custom dimensions to track Islandora collections I would love to
> try it out. It'd be handy to have on the README for the module, since I
> imagine it's a very common use case.
>
> On Wednesday, 19 September 2018 10:19:46 UTC-4, dp...@metro.org wrote:
>
> Hi Chris,
>
> Beautiful site! We have a working solution for 2 years already based
> on Matomo[1] and some custom work we did on Islandora Piwiki (old
> name of Matomo) that uses custom dimensions to track object
> membership and objects too. We also track downloads, metadata views
> and search interaction (what was searched, hits and where people ended)
>
> Setup experience can vary but is not that terrible, we run this on
> DCMNY.org and have also individual landing pages/stats for each
> collection so collection managers can produce isolated reports + a
> full site wide one. All is open source so i would encourage you to
> give it a try. If you need Metro's help setting up your particular
> use case you can always contact Anne Karle-Zenith at

> ann...@metro.org <javascript:> 

>
> [1] https://matomo.org
> [2]  https://github.com/DiegoPino/islandora_piwik
> <https://github.com/DiegoPino/islandora_piwik>
>
> Best, hope this helps! (i attached a screenshot)
>
> Diego Pino
> Metro.org

> matomo dcmny.org.jpg
>
>
> On Tuesday, September 18, 2018 at 12:15:28 PM UTC-4, cd...@artic.edu
> wrote:
>
> We migrated to Islandora from CONTENTdm over the past year.
> Because of the siloed nature of CONTENTdm, it was always easy to
> get statistics for each separate collection. Of course, now with
> Islandora and a single database, I'm not certain how to get good
> statistics in that way since item records don't seem to have any
> URL markers that define their collection, etc. I can get stats
> for collection landing page, but have difficulty past that.
>
> Am I missing something that is obvious? Has anyone tried to
> accomplish something simliar? I feel like there is something I
> can do with reports, but I don't have the language.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Chris Day
> cd...@saic.edu
> https://digitalcollections.saic.edu

> <https://digitalcollections.saic.edu>
>
>
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[cd...@artic.edu]

Thanks very much, everyone. Matamo does indeed look good, but may be beyond my reach for right now. 

Jared, I am looking at playing with some of your ideas. Especially since I think I can use the the CUSTOM JAVASCRIPT CODE functionality of the Google Analytics module to insert some of these ideas into the pages without having to touch the larger themes. It has certainly given me more ideas than I was coming up with the other day.

Thanks again. I'll share anything I learn.

Chris