Using Urchin

If you need to know more about how people use your site, which pages are being used and which are not or determine the effectiveness of publicity campaigns, then you will want to check out the Urchin Web statistics reports.

Glossary of Common Urchin Terms

Logging in:

• http://wwwstats.uwec.edu
• Username: public
• Password: urchinstats

Report Features

Report categories include Traffic, Pages and Files, Navigation, Domains and Users, Browsers and Robots and Client Parameters.

There are two report types available. For those only curious about their site's popularity, the public report will show cumulative detail on all UW-Eau Claire sites. This will give you an idea of what times of day we're most visited, what broswers are being used overall and more.

You can use the Directory Drilldown report under "Pages and Files" to identify your individual site and display a listing of pages accessed during the selected Date Range. By clicking on any folder icon, you can drill-down to subdirectories and eventually the actual pages themselves.

For those who need more detail about their sites, a profile report can be set up by Web Development staff by sending an email requrest to web@uwec.edu. With your own profile, reports are specific to your site. You may be able to determine where your users came from, such as search engine or affiliate, which search engines brought you the traffic, which keywords from search engines were used to find your Web pages and more.