Help needed in Arctos: Does Arctos have a way to track metrics about people searching our collection?

[falco-rk]

Tell us what you are trying to do

Is there any way for us to determine the number of people who search for, look at, or interact with our data that aren't signed in? Similar to [Usage Statistics](https://arctos.database.museum/info/queryStats.cfm) but my understanding is that that is based on queries of logged-in users. Also, can we get metrics about who downloads our data?

@happiah-madson

What are relevant pages in Arctos

Provide a link to or a description of the page where you need help.

[dustymc]

people

No - but things like IPs and usernames are a decent proxy, probably.

logged-in users

No, it's all users, anyone who makes a cache table.

downloads

Download Statistics

BUT/sorta related - the API and things like https://github.com/ArctosDB/arctos/issues/8096 should be considering when interpreting those data.

[happiah-madson]

Download Statistics

When I click on this, is it for all of Arctos, or is it just for OGL:Genomic?

[dustymc]

all

[happiah-madson]

and I presume from that response there isn't a way to see interactions with just ogl:genomic?

[dustymc]

Nope, here's what I grab when someone downloads:

arctosprod@arctos>> \d cf_download
                            Table "core.cf_download"
      Column      |            Type             | Collation | Nullable | Default 
------------------+-----------------------------+-----------+----------+---------
 user_id          | integer                     |           | not null | 
 download_purpose | character varying(60)       |           | not null | 
 download_date    | timestamp without time zone |           | not null | 
 num_records      | integer                     |           | not null | 
 agree_to_terms   | character varying(3)        |           | not null | 

(We could really use some sort of Arctos-wide statistics-ish-gathering reform, if you'd like to lead any charges....)

[happiah-madson]

Cool, cool cool cool. Clearly we have some exploring of reporting tools to explore. How hard would it be to include "collections included in downloads" in what you currently gather?