Statistics for Online 
Document Use
Christopher C. Brown
University of Denver
cbrown@du.edu
Statistics we now know
* Items received
* Circulation statistics
* Web site visits
* GPO Access statistics

Statistics we don't know
* Visits to online docs URLs - we are clueless!
* How many times URLs are visited
* What titles are visited
* What agencies are most popular
* We don't know the whole picture
Objective
* To track online government document usage through our online catalog

Why we need URL statistics
* Justify our depository status to administrators
* Assist with item selections
* URL maintenance
* "Knowing where they're going" is always helpful
URLs at University of Denver
* Over 65,000 URLs in our catalog
* Many of these not in CGP
* "Aggressively" added URLs
How it Works
* URL click sends user to CF database
* Database records URL, date, time
* Database instantly refers user to URL

Website Management Menu
URL Clickthrough Statistics
The URL Redirects
Access Database Form
Click-through to Catalog
URL Testing
CGP Lookup
Reports: SuDocs Major Class
Reports: Title by Title
Reports: Specific Agency
Reports: By Class
Here's the Cold Fusion code