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What do the terms used in the Usage Statistics reports mean?

April 26, 2017mean reports statistics terms usage Used

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What do the terms used in the Usage Statistics reports mean?

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1. Number of sessions – a browsing session starting with a login and ending with a timeout (ICOLC) 2. Content Unit requests – number of articles or book entries viewed (ICOLC) 3. Page requests – number of HTML pages accessed, including A-Z lists, Tables of Contents 4. Hits – http hits: includes images and CSS and JavaScript files (1 page may generate 5+ hits for instance) 5. Queries – searches (ICOLC) 6. Content Unit requests – number of articles or entries viewed (ICOLC) 7. Turn-Aways – failed login attempts due to account concurrency limits being reached, or missing subscription (ICOLC) 8. Full-Content Units reached from browse – articles read after browsing rather than searching (ICOLC) For more detail on the definitions of the terms marked ‘ICOLC’ above please refer to section 1 of the page below: www.library.yale.edu/consortia/2001webstats.htm.