Tracking Web Site Usage
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- Personal Log Files
- Log File Analysis
- Google Analytics
Personal Log Files
UW's Web servers generate log files that record the time and date a Web page was accessed, what browser was used to access the page, and which page your site was linked from.
Using Personal Log
Files
Learn how to get data about the requests to your Web
site.
Log File Analysis
Your personal log files contain raw log file data. Tools exist to help you analyze this data. UW Information Technology provides limited support for such tools.
Using
Webalizer
How to use Webalizer to generate reports based on the data
in your personal extended_log file.
Google Analytics
Google Analytics is a powerful and often easy-to-install free Web traffic analysis service.
Google Analytics will only track pages that contain the Google Analytics tracking code. This is a small Javascript snippet that needs to be added to each page of your site, either manually or through the use of plugins or tool. This section will cover a few easy ways to include this code, and the manual way, which is a lot of work for anything but a very small site.
You'll also need a Google Analytics account. If you have a gmail or google account, that will work.
All of the content these links point to is hosted elsewhere.
Google
Analytics for Wordpress
A Wordpress plugin that inserts the Google Analytics tracking code into
the appropriate places for a Wordpress blog.
Drupal
module
A Drupal module that inserts the Google Analytics tracking code into
your Drupal site.
Dreamweaver
extension
This extension allows Dreamweaver users to insert the Google Analytics
tracking code into all of their pages at once.
How
do I add tracking code to my website?
Google's help documentation on how to add the Analytics tracking code to
your Web site. The exact method that you use to add this code to your
site will vary based on how your site is constructed and what tools you
use to edit the site.
