ForwardUW Madison catalog usage, tools, and plans.
How our catalog is used
Tools we use
Improvements
Catalog Usage
Pages 7%
Bots 69%
Assets 10%
Status 14%
Page Views
64% of traffic is from out of state
66% of the items are discovered
outside of the catalog
Finding an item locally
Anywhere
Advanced
Title
Author
Subject
For the remaining 34%
Anywhere SearchID
10%
Author 67%
Known Item 4%
Title 12%
Topic 8%
Advanced Search
• Most traffic is from “canned” searches
• The advanced form makes up only 0.6% of traffic
Subject Explore
• Clicked about 4% of the time
Subject Browse
• Topics and Places, about 3% of overall traffic
Author Browse
• 0.3% of traffic
Language Browse
• 0.3% of traffic
Spelling
• Used 15% of the time
• Yahoo @ $15 / month versus Bing @ $500 / month
Trends
• Increase in keyword anywhere searching
• Increase in outside traffic
• Increase in bot traffic
• Decrease in search referral traffic
Tools
Google Analytics
Inspectlet - heatmaps
Inspectlet - sessions
New Relic
New Relic
Collectd
Log parsing
Search Classification
Improvements
Improve Google Indexing
• Generate a sitemap to allow better indexing
• Utilize Google’s webmaster tools site
• Leverage microdata
Search detection
• Classification of BibID searches
• Classify known item searches
• Tailor responses based on search classification
Backend
• Page load and query times are seven times faster
• Further improve outlier performance
• Better metrics for external calls
Core Features
• Primo Central
• Alma
• Improved account management
• Provide API
