Urchin web log analysis quick start guide

ECN has the Urchin web log analysis package installed on the cluster, and you can access it here:

https://engineering.purdue.edu/ECN/webstats/

That will redirect you into Urchin, logging you in with the necessary privileges.

The first thing you see is a list of sites on the cluster. Say you want to look at stats for a spotlight on the MSE site. MSE happens to be on the 3rd page of the sites list, so click the Next link at the bottom of the list a couple of times until you see Materials Engineering, then click the school's name in the list to view it's stats.

From there you would look under All Reports in the left sidebar and click Content Optimization -> Content Performance -> Content Drilldown.

That shows you a list of the folders and files in the site, starting with the root folder, /MSE. Because our installation of Zope is designed to be largely case-insensitve (you don't get a not-found error if you mis-capitalize a file or folder name), you will often see the same file or folder listed multiple times because people capitalized it in different ways when they went to it. Usually the correct capitalization will have the vast majority of hits, and you can ignore the alternate versions without missing too many visits.

To drill down, click the folder or file icons that lead to the path you want to explore. For instance, if you want to see how many people visited:

https://engineering.purdue.edu/MSE/Spotlights/MSEFacultySearch

...you would start by clicking the folder icon next to /MSE, then the folder icon next to Spotlights, then look for MSEFacultySearch in the list of the contents of Spotlights. At the moment it's showing 620 visits and 749 pageviews.

The icons to the left of each item offer additional options for viewing information about the items. If you follow one of those links and want to get back to the list of items, click the Content Drilldown -> link in the tabs at the top of the content area, or click the X in the upper right corner of any pop-up window-y thing.