Statistics

By Daniel Berthereau Statistics about resources and analytics about viewed pages.
Download 3.4.7

Statistics and Analytics (module for Omeka S)

New versions of this module and support for Omeka S version 3.0 and above are available on GitLab, which seems to respect users and privacy better than the previous repository.

Statistics is a module for Omeka S that computes statistics about resources ant that counts views of pages by visitors. It allows to get data about items, item sets, media, properties, etc., and it allows to know the least popular resource and the most viewed pages. It provides useful infos on visitors too (language, referrer...). So this is a statistics tools and an analytics tool like [Matomo] (open source), Google Analytics (proprietary, no privacy) and other hundreds of such web loggers.

It has some advantages over them: - internal statistics about resources; - simple to manage (a normal module, with same interface); - adapted (statistics can be done by resource and not only by page); - integrated, so statistics can be displayed on any page easily; - informative (query, referrer, user agent and language are saved; all statistics can be browsed by public); - count of direct download of files; - full control of pruducted data; - respect of privacy by default.

On the other hand, some advanced features are not implemented, especially a detailled board with advanced filters. Furthermore, many analytics on the users are not available. So the two tools may be needed according to your needs.

Logs and data can be exported as a spreadsheet. All the viewers hits are stored in the database and can be exported via sql to a spreadsheet like LibreOffice or another specialized statistic tool, where many statistics can be calculated.

Of course, you must respect privacy of users and visitors.

This module is a direct upgrade of the plugin Statistics for Omeka Classic, with many improvments.

Installation

Module

See general end user documentation for installing a module.

The module Common must be installed first.

To get statistics and not only analytics, the module Advanced Search is required in order to do advanced queries, in particular to get results by period.

The module uses an external library, so use the release zip to install it, or use and init the source.

  • From the zip

Download the last release [Statistics.zip] from the list of releases, and uncompress it in the modules directory.

  • From the source and for development

If the module was installed from the source, rename the name of the folder of the module to Statistics, go to the root module, and run:

composer install --no-dev

Count downloads of files

If you don't use apache logs or another specialized tool ot count files download, you can enable it in the module and to config the file .htaccess at the root of the server.

Just add a line in the beginning off .htaccess, after RewriteEngine on:

RewriteRule ^files/original/(.*)$ https://example.org/download/files/original/$1 [NC,L]

In case of some issues in Apache or with an internal proxy, you can use (the use of http is not unsecure, because the redirect is internal):

RewriteRule ^files/original/(.*)$ http://%{HTTP_HOST}/download/files/original/$1 [NC,L]

If you use the module Access to allow access to some private files to some users, you must use its redirection, so use /access/ instead of /download/ in the redirect url of the rewrite rule. The module Access records the url for Statistics too. If you keep the redirection with download, the check for restricted access won't be done, so a private file will become public, even if a user as a no restricted access to it.

# Redirect direct access to files to the module Access.
RewriteRule "^files/(original|large)/(.*)$" "/access/files/$1/$2" [P]

# Redirect direct download of files to the module Access.
RewriteRule "^download/files/(original|large)/(.*)$" "http://%{HTTP_HOST}/access/files/$1/$2" [P]

In fact, if not redirected, it acts the same way than a direct access to a private file in Omeka: they are not protected and everybody who knows the url, in particular Google via Gmail, Chrome, etc., will have access to it.

If you use the anti-hotlinking feature of Archive Repertory to avoid bandwidth theft, you should keep its rule. Statistics for direct downloads of files will be automatically added.

You can count large files too, but this is not recommended, because in the majority of themes, hits may increase even when a simple page is opened. Nevertheless, it may be required when you control access with module [Access Resource].

If you use module Derivative Media, don't forget to add them to the htaccess file.

Usage

Browse analytics

A summary of statistics is displayed at /statistics/analytics.

Lists of statistics by page, by resource or by field are available too. They can be ordered and filtered by anonymous / identified users, resource types, etc.

These pages can be made available to authorized users only or to all public.

Warning: On the public side, this page will be replaced by a block.

Displaying some analytics in the theme

Statistics of a page or resource can be displayed on any page via three mechanisms.

Events

An option allows to append the statistics automatically on some resource show and browse pages via the events. Just enable them through the module [Blocks Disposition].

Helper "statistic"

The helpers statistic can be used for more flexibility:

echo $this->statistic()->positionResource($resource);
echo $this->statistic()->textPage($currentUrl);

Shortcodes

Shortcode are available through the module Shortcode.

Some illustrative examples:

[stat]
[stat_total url="/login"]
[stat_total resource="items"]
[stat_total resource="items" id=1]
[stat_position]
[stat_position url="/item/search"]
[stat_position resource="item_sets" id=1]
[stat_vieweds]
[stat_vieweds type="none"]
[stat_vieweds sort="last" type="items"]
[stat_vieweds sort="most" type="download" number=1]

Arguments for Omeka Classic were adapted for Omeka S.

All arguments are optional. Arguments are: * For stat_total (alias of stat) and stat_position - type: If "download", group all downloaded files linked to the specified resource (all files of an item, or all files of all items of a). Else, the type is automatically detected ("resource" if a resource is set, "page" if an url is set or if nothing is set). - resource (Omeka classic: record_type): one or multiple Omeka resource type, e.g. "items" or "item_sets", or "media". By default, a viewed resource is counted for each hit on the dedicated page of a resource, like "/item/xxx". Alternatively, the url can be used (with the argument url, but to count the downloaded files, this is an obfuscated one except if Archive Repertory is used. - id (Omeka classic: record_id): the identifier of the resource (not the slug if any). It implies one specific resource and only one. With stat_position, id is required when searching by resource. - url: the url of a specific page. A full url is not needed; a partial Omeka url without web root is enough (in any case, web root is removed automatically). This argument is used too to know the total or the position of a file. This argument is not used if resource argument is set.

  • For stat_vieweds
  • type: If "page" or "download", most or last viewed pages or downloaded files will be returned. If empty or "all", it returns only pages with a dedicated resource. If "none", it returns pages without dedicated resource. If one or multiple Omeka resource type, e.g. "items" or "item_sets", most or last resources of this resource type will be returned.
  • sort: can be "most" (default) or "last".
  • page: page number to return (the first one by default).
  • number: number of resources to return (10 by default).

The event and the helper return the partial from the theme.

stat_total and stat_position return a simple number, surrounded by a span tag when shortcode is used. stat_vieweds returns an html string that can be themed.

Notes

  • Hits of anonymous users and identified users are counted separately.
  • Only pages of the public theme are counted.
  • Reload of a page generates a new hit (no check).
  • IP can be hashed (default) or truncated for privacy purpose.
  • Currently, screen size is not detected.

TODO

  • [ ] Fixme: stats by value is wrong when a property has duplicate values for a resource (so fix it or warn about deduplicating values regularly (module BulkEdit)).
  • [x] Fix and finalize statistics for public side and shortcodes.
  • [ ] Replace public statistics pages by a block and remove public routes.
  • [ ] Statistics for api.
  • [x] Add summary in public side.
  • [ ] Move some options to site settings.
  • [x] Store the site id in hits.
  • [ ] Store the site id in stats and update all stats and queries.
  • [x] Add stats by site.
  • [ ] Check CleanUrl.
  • [ ] Merge the stats page/download and resource.
  • [ ] Improve rights to read/create or filter visitors data on api.
  • [x] Move all statistics methods from Stat and Hit models to Statistic Helper?
  • [ ] Improve stats by item sets and move to helper Statistic.
  • [ ] Enlarge item sets to any resource (item for media, periods, item set tree).
  • [ ] Add tests.
  • [ ] Add stored generated index (year, month, day, hour) (doctrine 2.11, so Omeka 4).
  • [ ] Add a table to store search (q, fulltext_search, others?).
  • [ ] Include the right sidebar search form (the one used in site resources and pages) in by-value statistics.

Warning

Use it at your own risk.

It’s always recommended to backup your files and your databases and to check your archives regularly so you can roll back if needed.

Troubleshooting

See online issues on the module issues page on GitLab.

License

This module is published under the CeCILL v2.1 license, compatible with GNU/GPL and approved by FSF and OSI.

This software is governed by the CeCILL license under French law and abiding by the rules of distribution of free software. You can use, modify and/ or redistribute the software under the terms of the CeCILL license as circulated by CEA, CNRS and INRIA at the following URL "http://www.cecill.info".

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Copyright

  • Copyright Daniel Berthereau, 2014-2024 (see Daniel-KM on GitLab)
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