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Presentesr:Thomas Gates, GISP, CFM, GIS Analyst at Atkins/FDOT
When the Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) District IV deployed its new web-based GIS Portal in March of 2012, they pondered over its usefulness to the agency, whether the investment was sound & if it was being utilized by enough users to show a positive return on investment (ROI). After looking at a few different methods of better determining these factors, FDOT District IV chose Web-Log Expert to monitor its usage. This rather inexpensive software took all the guess work out of the equation and provided data on who is accessing the application and how often. The District now has an understanding of which map services are most often accessed by individual users and which departments are using the portal internally. On the one year anniversary of its deployment in March 2013, the GIS Portal reached a significant milestone of just over one million hits, which shows a substantial ROI.
The software provides information about the district site's visitors: activity statistics, accessed files, paths followed through the site, information about referring pages, search engines, browsers, operating systems, and even errors. The program produces easy-to-read reports that include both text information (tables) and charts as dynamic HTML reports or PDF & CSV formats. The program features a rather intuitive interface with built-in wizards which help quickly and easily create a profile for your site and analyze it.
Join us at the next Broward County GIS Users Group to see how FDOT is using this software & just how easy it is to determine similar statistics for your web based GIS applications.
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