berlin_dataportal_usage

BOSS vs Webtrekk

Until 2019-12-31, usage statistics were collected with our internal BerlinOnline Site Statistics (BOSS) tool. As of 2020-01-01 we have stopped using BOSS on the Berlin Open Data Portal, and have replaced it with Webtrekk Analytics. Webtrekk has been in use side-by-side with BOSS since February 2019.

While BOSS and Webtrekk provide the same metrics, the actual results differ.

Page visits is always an approximation, in that the statistics software has some kind of heuristics to determine which page impressions should be considered part of the same visit. The heuristics for BOSS and Webtrekk are slightly different, so unsurprisingly the numbers for page visits differ as well.

However, the numbers for page impressions also differ, and on average are consistently higher for BOSS compared to Webtrekk. Some reasons that might contribute to this are:

Chart showing page impressions and views for daten.berlin.de as measures by BOSS and Webtrekk. Numbers from BOSS are consistently higher than numbers from Webtrekk. Page impressions and visits for daten.berlin.de via BOSS and Webtrekk. Raw data is available in daten_berlin_de.domain.2019.boss-vs-webtrekk.csv.

For individual datasets, the numbers are not so clear. Sometimes BOSS counts more, sometimes Webtrekk does. The top 10 datasets by page visits for December 2019 are mostly the same for both BOSS and Webtrekk, but the ranking is slightly different.

Dataset Ranking BOSS pv BOSS Ranking Webtrekk pv Webtrekk
vbb-fahrplandaten-gtfs 1 597 1 570
liste-der-häufigen-vornamen-2018 2 322 2 341
einwohnerinnen-und-einwohner-berlin-lor-planungsräumen-am-31122018 3 122 3 150
openstreetmap-daten-für-berlin 4 110 4 113
vbb-fahrplandaten-api-0 6 93 5 102
alkis-berlin-amtliches-liegenschaftskatasterinformationssystem 5 96 6 92
lod2-gebäudedaten-berlin 7 82 7 77
berlin-um-1900-aisber-wms 8 69 8 74
parkraumbewirtschaftung-im-bezirk-friedrichshain-kreuzberg 10 58 9 55
digitale-farbige-orthophotos-2019-dop20rgb-wms-1 11 52 10 55

The raw data for this table is available in daten_berlin_de.2019-12.boss-vs-webtrekk.csv.