This request brings to mind something I've been thinking about for a long
time: There is a serious dearth of web analytics benchmarking data in the
library community. I know our web stats but I have no idea if they are good
or bad or average. Trying to compare with other general sites is not very
meaningful, because library websites have such specific goals that are very
different from the goals of commercial websites.

I've been pondering for awhile how we could collectively build a dataset
for benchmarking, but my pondering hasn't gotten very far. I would love to
hear what other people think.

Laura


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On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 6:24 AM, Hicks, William <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:

> Morning All,
>
> Would anyone of you be able to share some of your Google Analytics Data
> with me?  I’m looking at updating some IA and design on our main library
> site and want to see what other people’s data look like since we all share
> many of the same types of problems and many of us have variant approaches
> to shuffling our users around.  I’d love a “Read & Analyze” permissions if
> you’d be willing to give it out, but a PDF export of the top several
> hundred rows of your top content “all pages” report (over the last 12
> months) would work too. Please email me off list if you are interested.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> William Hicks
>
> Digital Libraries: User Interfaces
> University of North Texas
> 1155 Union Circle #305190
> Denton, TX 76203-5017
>
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