Campus website usage statistics may be generated using Google Analytics or Analog

Google Analytics

Google Analytics is a popular tool which provides a wide variety of usage statistics for your web site.

To use Google Analytics, you sign up for an account with Google, then include some custom javascript code on all your web pages.

Please note that, due to privacy issues, Google Analytics should not be used on sites that require authentication or that deal with sensitive information.  The issue is that when you include externally hosted javascript on your pages, that external site has access to the contents of your pages, as well as authentication data, cookies and anything the user might type in.

Analog

Analog is an alternative way to gather usage data for campus web sites. Reports are circulated monthly via email, and are also available online.

Analog reports provide information on directory and file requests, domain and organization names, referring URLs, internal and external search queries, and browsers and operating system summaries.

Although Analog does not provide detailed information on individual users, the data is extremely helpful in establishing usage trends and monitoring site profile.

Raw statistical data for webpages hosted by U of S web servers can be viewed in webpage analog reports.  For privacy reasons, these reports are only available on-campus.

• Statistics for pages on the usask.ca server have been recorded since July 1995. Details for various departments and units are listed under the headings Virtual Host Reports or Other Statistics.

 

• Statistics for pages on the Homepage server have been recorded since September 1999 using the analog reports. 

 

You can take the online course on interpreting analog reports.

If your campus unit is interested in obtaining Analog reports, please send mail to webmaster@usask.ca.