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June 23, 2008
Measure Blog Use with YourStats
If your library is using internally-hosted blogs as a way to communicate with your customers, check out a great RSS4Lib post that offers a tool just for blog statistics called YourStats. It was originally developed just for RSS4Lib, but is now open for general use. You can upload a log file (a file that the web server keeps) and parse it out to find out a lot of different statistical data.
If you've thought about counting RSS subscribers in a complete way, or thinking about how many people access your site, then check this out. I think you'll find what you need.
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Another useful tool for this is Feedburner, but more so for popular feeds rather than one-off feeds (like the feeds resulting from search queries).
I did see some stats from the Ann Arbor library at one point showing very aggregated search information, and noted that an RSS-based alert feed that I had set up (one for cookbooks, one for knitting books) showed up disproportionately in the RSS stats they had. That suggests that more general alerting tools would be handy ("tell me when you have more books in this category").
Posted by: Edward Vielmetti | June26, 2008
