Tuesday, June 5, 2018

Tidbit about bots and numbers

From a 2018 DC+SEUG presentation by Daniel Jolly and Holly Mabry:
The folks at bepress do a great job of eliminating bots from the usage numbers that we see for our institutions.  The information in the webinar I watched was that they were finding that 62% of ALL the activity they were recording on their end came from bots, spiders, and the like.  The other 38% consisted of real human users.  The stats that we see through the Digital Commons Dashboard only reflect those human-interaction numbers.  We don’t see the numbers for that other 62% on our end at all.  The numbers we see in the Dashboard are what Digital Commons identifies as real, legitimate human users.

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