Dear colleagues A number of issues were raised at the WebMasters 3 meeing yesterday, one of the less important of which is access counters. Many of you will have full analyses of your own log files but interesting snap shots of user profiles based upon hits on a single page can be quite informative. I've been playing with a few external services in the last month or so and the following are worth a look. Both free. There are current links on the framed WebElements home page [http://www.shef.ac.uk/~chem/web-elements/] 1 NedStat: http://www.nedstat.nl/ This is an interesting one because it gives you a break down of accesses by country/continent/hour/day/month Try: http://www.nedstat.nl/cgi-bin/viewstat?name=webelements to see what you get. The disadvantge is all the info is in Dutch but if, like me, you can't read a word, it's still pretty clear what's going on. 2 WebSide Story: http://www.hitbox.com/wc/world.html Interesting because it tells you unique accesses, reloads, and can be monitored in real time using a java contoller. Try: http://w12.hitbox.com/wc3/index.cgi?G25025119 to see what you get. If you create your own counter using the "science" category with this service, it will be located in the "high tech" area. With these two types of counter, if you are desparate to maximise hit rates, put the requisite HTML high on your page. Numbers are about 10-20% lower if contained towards the bottom of a longish page. ---- [PS - general applause for Becky Allen for all the hard work organising the meeting; the RSC who have backed the WebMasters meetings from a very early stage in WWW history; and to Karl Harrison for all the hard work involved locally at Oxford in hosting the 1997 meeting] Dr Mark J Winter (Deputy Head of Department) Department of Chemistry, The University, Sheffield S3 7HF, England tel: +44 (0)114 222 9304 fax: +44 (0)114 222 9303 e-m: mark.winter@sheffield.ac.uk http://www.shef.ac.uk/~chem/staff/mjw/mark-winter.html WebElements is the periodic table on the world-wide web: http://www.shef.ac.uk/~chem/web-elements/ The Sheffield Chemdex is a listing of chemistry sites on the world-wide web: http://www.shef.ac.uk/~chem/chemdex/ chemweb: A list for Chemical Applications of the Internet. Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/chemweb/ To unsubscribe, send to majordomo@ic.ac.uk the following message; unsubscribe chemweb List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (rzepa@ic.ac.uk)