Best Practices for LibGuides at UCLA

Statistics (Sep 11, 2015)

LibGuides provides detailed statistics on how people are using your guide. Not just total number of visitors, but what pages they’re looking at and what links they’re clicking on. To see those more detailed stats, pull up the general stats for your individual guide, then click on the guide name in the table…

That will bring you to the screen that breaks it down by individual Page Views. Click on Assets to see clicks on Links, Databases, or Books from the Catalog.

Got a handful of links that are getting all the traffic? Help your users find them more quickly by putting them front and center on the home page. Or, if you think they’re being overused, make sure they’re grouped with preferred alternatives.

Got a link that’s not being used? Maybe you can delete it. Or move it to an out-of-the-way box/page. Or maybe you need to highlight it and explain why people should be using it.