Tracking Traffic to the Inventory

In September 2006, we added a site tracker to the Inventory website through hitslog.com. It's a free tracking service that keeps records of hits, unique visitors, which pages were visited, system characteristics of visitors (e.g. broswer, operating system, screen resolution), and more. Below are instructions for how to access the Inventory's information and a list of which pages are currently tracked.

Getting Tracking Info

To see site statistics, go to http://hitslog.com and in the upper right hand corner enter our username and password, which are:

You'll be taken to the "Your Statistics" page, with the domain library.uiuc.edu listed. Click the button labelled "Display Domain Pages" to see the currently tracked Inventory pages. Right now tracked pages are:

The "Statistics Settings" below the pages drop-down menu should show everything selected. There's no harm in tracking everything, so leave this as it stands.

View Stats

To view statistics, click either "Get Domain Stats" under domain drop-down -- which will list information for all the pages -- or "Get Page Stats" under the pages drop-down. Choosing the first option is better if you're looking for a snapshot view of the entire site. The latter will break stats down according to the specific page you choose.

Hits vs. Visitors

The categories should be self-explanatory, but note especially the distinction between hits and visitors. "Hits" tallies the number of times tracked pages have been loaded; "visitors" tallies the number of distinct visitors to all the pages (tracked by IP address).

How It Works

The tracker works through a little embedded JavaScript code, included in the header of each of the pages listed above:

<script language="javascript" type="text/javascript">
var u=28614; 
var vsbl=0;
var l='';
</script>
<script type="text/javascript" language="Javascript" src="http://h1.hitslog.com/counter.js"></script>
<script language="javascript" type="text/javascript">
<!--
document.write('<a href="http://hitslog.com"/><img border="0" width="1" height="1"   src="http://h1.hitslog.com/hl.php?'+l+'"></a>');
//-->
</script>

The above code is for tracking without a visible icon on our pages. Below is code for tracking with an icon, and for the HTML version. NB: the HTML tracker can't gather as much information.

<!-- *****************************************
For the 88x31px button to be visible. 
*****************************************	
-->
<script language="javascript">
var u=28614; 
var vsbl=1;
</script>
<script type="text/javascript" language="Javascript"  src="http://h1.hitslog.com/counter.js"></script>
<script language="javascript" type="text/javascript">
document.write('<a href=http://hitslog.com/><img border=0 width=88 height=31  src=http://h1.hitslog.com/img.php?'+l+'></a>');
</script>
<noscript>
<a href="http://hitslog.com/">
<img border="0"  src="http://h1.hitslog.com/img.php?u=28614" width='88' height='31' alt="online stats"></a>
</noscript>
<!-- ********************************************
HTML version. Includes fewer tracking features.
*********************************************
-->
<div align="center"><a href="http://hitslog.com/"><img border=0  src="http://h1.hitslog.com/myspace/28614.png" 
width='88' height='31' alt="online stats"  title="online stats" /></a></div>