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MIT Data Warehouse WEB HITS DETAIL Table


Detailed 'web hits' information. Provided for the MIT community to report on hits on their web pages. Information includes the URL accessed, the date of the access and various information about the accessor (for example the browser and operating system used to access the URL). The counter represents the number of hits on the web page on a given day from users with the same OS, browser, domain code etc.


Field Name

Description

Data Type

Length

ACCESS_DATE

Date a web page was accessed.

DATE

8

AFS_LOCKER

Identifies a locker on AFS. For example, documents accessed at the URL "http://web.mit.edu/admissions/" are in the AFS locker "admissions".

VARCHAR2

100

BROWSER

Web Browser name. Used in web statistics reporting. Examples are 'Netscape' or 'MS Internet Explorer'.

VARCHAR2

100

BROWSER_VERSION

This is the version number of the Web Browser that generated a "web hit". For example if someone used Netscape Navigator 4 to view your web site, a web hit would be generated with a browser version of 4.

VARCHAR2

12

COUNTER

Numeric field used to count entries in a table. Can be summed on a report. Example - if this field appeared on a table of Person information, it could be used on reports to show headcounts.

NUMBER

1

IS_ACCESS_FROM_MIT

Indicates whether a web page was accessed by a computer at MIT or outside MIT. Values are 'Y' (access from MIT) or 'N' (access from outside MIT).

VARCHAR2

1

LOCKER_KEY

Key used for joining the WEB_HITS_LOCKER and WEB_HITS_DETAIL tables together. This field should be used only for joining tables, and should not be placed on reports.

VARCHAR2

100

OPERATING_SYSTEM

Name of an Operating System category, used in web statistics reporting. Examples are 'Windows 95/98' and 'Macintosh'.

VARCHAR2

40

TOP_LEVEL_DOMAIN_KEY

Key used for joining the TOP_LEVEL_DOMAIN and WEB_HITS_DETAIL tables together. This field should be used only for joining tables, and should not be placed on reports.

VARCHAR2

6

URL_ACCESSED

URL of a web page accessed by a user. Used in web page statistics reporting.

VARCHAR2

500

WAREHOUSE_LOAD_DATE

The date the record was loaded into the Data Warehouse from the source system.

DATE

8