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There's a new menu link on the NIST Technical Series Publications List page Report Downloads.

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These pages display a searchable table with the number of hits and visitors for each NIST Technical Series Publication PDF.

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This video will show you how to view the monthly pages and the raw data as well.

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The monthly pages are generated using some Python in a Jupiter notebook.

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This is also linked on the page as well.

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Let's take a look at August 2024.

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You'll see two blocks of Python that reads the CSV file and displays a table with a search box.

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It automatically sorts by most hits descending.

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You can see three columns Hits, visitors and File hits count the number of times a file was accessed or downloaded.

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A visitor is counted when a file is accessed on a particular date by a unique user, and the file column displays the reports URL.

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For a technical description, see the landing page in the link here.

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You're probably most concerned about searching for a specific report or series.

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To filter what's displayed on the table, simply type the series abbreviation with a period or- depending on the series URL structure.

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Let's try SP dot 1800.

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We see it quickly filters only publications that fall in this category.

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You can filter down even further by following the URL structure.

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For example, SP 1800-, 29.

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Let's look at SP .800.

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It has 530 entries for this series, but only displays 10 of them at a time.

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You can simply select Copy, which will copy the filtered table, in this case 530 entries, or download a CSV or Excel spreadsheet of the same filtered entries.

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It's that simple.

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One more thing to mention is the raw CSV files.

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These files were generated directly from the web logs in a neatly packaged CSV file.

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The folder is linked on the report Downloads page 2 at the bottom, hosted on GitHub.

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Thanks for watching.

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If you have any questions, please e-mail us at techpubs@nist.gov.