A Gentle Introduction to Urchin at ibiblio
ibiblio is transitioning to a new statistics package, Urchin, for your
number needs. The Urchin interface is slightly confusing; this
page should help you use Urchin.
Note that these instructions are only for users with web addresses like
http://www.ibiblio.org/somesite/ If your collection lives in a
virtual host, like http://www.confluence.org/, you'll need to submit
a stats request via http://www.ibiblio.org/help. After we set up a profile for
you, you'll want to use a slightly different set of instructions than
the below.
1) Log in
Urchin lives at https://stats.ibiblio.org/.
Go there, and log in with the username "guest" and password "ibiblio"
(without quotation marks). Then, click on the Log-in button.

2) Select a profile
Urchin stats are organized into profiles, so you'll need to select a
profile. You want to select "www.ibiblio.org.public" by clicking
on the name itself. When you click on the profile, a new window
will open up with graphs. The picture below shows exactly where
to click:

3) Begin drilldown
After you click on that link, a new window will pop up, containing
something like the following image. To get to your own stats,
instead of looking at general ibiblio stats, you'll need to "drilldown"
into your directory. Begin by clicking on the "Pages & Files"
option, highlighted with an arrow below.

4) Select drilldown
To get to the drill-down screen, you'll need to click "Pages &
Files" and then "Directory Drilldown," highlighted below:

5) The drilldown view
Next, click on "Directory by Pages Drilldown." This will bring up
a display like the one shown below:

6) Filter categories
Unless your collection is inordinately popular, you'll probably have to
filter the results to find it. You can do this by typing in the
first part of your URL directory in the box. For example, if your
URL was http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/, you'd want to put "/wm" in the
Filter box and hit enter.

7) Drill-down
To actually move into a directory of content, click on the folder icon
next to it. In the example below, I've moved several levels into
the "/wm" directory, and now want to move into the "haywain"
directory. To do this, I click on the folder icon next to
"/haywain."
This is where you will actually see the number of page views for each
folder and page: here, http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/bosch/ got
11,707 hits, and all the content underneath it (things like
http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/bosch/haywain/,
http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/bosch/delight/, etc) got a total
of 39,361 hits.
Also, this is where the date range comes into play. Note that the
date range is "07/01/2005 - 07/31/2005", from July 1 to July 31.

8) Selecting alternate date ranges
To select a different date range, you can click on various things in
the Date Range field in the bottom left corner of the screen. The
most general and most powerful way to change the dates used is to click
on "Enter Range" and then select dates on the calendars
presented. After you've got the range entered, click on "Apply
Date Range," and Urchin will update with what it has available.
Please be patient: generating this could require a lot of processing.
