Web Reporting at MIT

Overview

MIT web publishers whose content is served from web.mit.edu, www.mit.edu and other webservers at MIT can keep track of hits to their pages. Hits can be tracked on a per-page basis, and each page to be tracked must have a couple lines of html code added to it. The access data is stored in the Data Warehouse where web publishers can view it or generate reports.

Method for Collecting Data

Publishers serving their web pages from MITnet (a server with a net 18 address ) can add this HTML "marker" to a page for which they would like data:

<!-- Begin MIT-use only web reporting counter -->
<img src="http://counter.mit.edu/tally" width="1" height="1" alt="">
<!-- End MIT-use only web reporting counter -->

This marker should be placed before the closing </body> tag. This marker allows data from the page to be sent to the counter system.

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What Data is Collected

The marker on a page allows the counter server to collect information about each page view. This information includes:

• URL of page viewed
• On-campus (network address 18.x.x.x) or off-campus view
• Top-level domain name
• Browser type and version
• Operating system

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How to Access Web Reports

The Data Warehouse provides access to standard reports to view data.

To access web reporting data from the Warehouse, users need to:

• Request access to the warehouse
• Install Oracle Client software
• Install BrioQuery for querying and getting reports from the Data Warehouse
• Download a BrioQuery report to see web reporting data and standard reports

A user manual explaining how to access web reports with BrioQuery is available as a PDF file. [Acrobat Reader required]

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Where to Go for Help

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