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Another alternative is the third party add-on Piwik. The DCAT was under the impression this system might provide skewed statistics. As piwik uses a client side javascript to collect statistics, only downloads made by clicking the DSpace download link are likely to be counted. Chances are high that downloads originating from outside DSpace, for example directly from google, are not logged.
Future of
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DSpace statistics
In the new User Interface it would be beneficial to enable SOLR to be queried directly through the centralized API instead of SOLR's REST API. This would allow to replace SOLR with another system, should a better data source arise. In the meantime, people developing to the DSpace statistics layer could more easily contribute their work to the community, as this would also be built upon this central DSpace API.
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