View Network Stats
As a network manager on a Pressbooks network, you have access to interactive graphs designed to provide you with deeper insight into how your network has been used over time. Data from these graphs can now be directly downloaded as CSV files. Find your network’s Stats page by clicking ‘Stats’ from your Administer Network dashboard.
Page View & Download Data
You can download a CSV file with information on visitors, page views and downloads for all books on your network over a specified time range. This draws from Analytics data using our built-in integration with the open source Koko Analytics plugin; more information on Analytics can be found here. All book download formats are counted individually along with total downloads. More information on making books available for download can be found here.
View Users Over Time
This Users of Time chart provides an interactive view of the number of users on your network over time. By default, the chart displays the full timeline of your network, from the month of its creation to the most recent month. Lines representing total users, total subscribers, and total contributors on the network will show, charted according to growth or decrease over time.
Adjust the Date Range Shown
You can change the duration depicted in the visualization by applynig start or end date filters. For example, you could limit the users over time graph to show you growh between February and August of 2019 by entering a start date of 2019-02 and an end date end date to 2019-08 and clicking ‘Apply Filter‘. The chart will be dynamically updated to present only the data for the time frame you’ve chosen. To reset the chart to its default time frame, click the Clear Filters button.
Adjust the Types of Users Shown
By default, this visualization will show you values over time for three data points: Total Users (a count of all users with accounts on your Pressbooks network), Total Subscribers (a count of all users whose highest role is that of subscriber), and Total Contributors (a count of all users who is a contributor or greater it at least one book). You can choose to hide or show any of these three values in this chart by clicking on the labels.
For example, to remove the line representing total contributors, click the yellow label for Total Contributors that sits above the chart. The Total Contributors label will be crossed out, and the corresponding yellow line will disappear from the chart. Just click the label again to have it reappear on the chart. The chart will changes as you interact with the labels.
Having this information can be helpful for things like:
- Knowing how quickly your Pressbooks network is gaining users
- Knowing what months people are most likely to register for a Pressbooks network, if you’ve enabled self-registration
- Knowing roughly how many students at your university are using a Pressbooks textbook via LTI as a subscriber
- Being able to demonstrate that usage of your Pressbooks network i