Software/web tool to analysis download stats

Joe Horwood Silver
Digital Marketing Manager at GS1

27 February 2009 07:55am

Until last month we used Google Analytics to track web visits and Urchin to keep track of downloads of documents from our website (PDF, Word etc.).

Our ISP now no longer supports Urchin (because Google no longer supports Urchin).

What is the best tool to track document downloads in a simple way - essentially number of times each document has been downloaded over a given timeframe?
Denis Kondopoulos
Technical Project Manager (MBA, MBCS, CITP, CEng) at Naxtech.com

27 February 2009 08:11am

Have you considered a manual web log analysis on a regular basis?

regards,

Denis
www.naxtech.com
dan barker
E-Business Consultant at Dan Barker

27 February 2009 10:21am

hi, Joe, how are you?

I have wonderful news: You can set this up in google analytics with very little effort!

Have a look here

Hope that helps!

dan

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http://www.barker.dj
Joe Horwood Silver
Digital Marketing Manager at GS1

27 February 2009 12:35pm

@ denis - thanks... any link to a "how to" for manual analysis?

@ dj barker - thanks also... problem is that this only means we can track downloads from links on our web pages. We're also interested in downloads from links on documents and other sites... any ideas?
Denis Kondopoulos
Technical Project Manager (MBA, MBCS, CITP, CEng) at Naxtech.com

27 February 2009 15:12pm

Hi Joe,

From what you are saying it sounds to me that manual analysis (aither automated or not) is probably the best way to do it.

regards,

Denis
www.naxtech.com