Dear colleagues
You may or may not find this helpful when considering designing your chemistry site. The following are results from 100000 accesses on 1 page of WebElements over the last 20 days or so. They were achieved using the free www.hitbox.com service. No doubt there all sorts of systematic errors so don't take the numbers too literally. ... Chime 2% [plenty of others, mostly 0-3%]
I also now tried this service. To use it, you have to install about 100 lines of JavaScript into the page you wish monitored. In my hands at least (MacOS 8.5.1, Netscape 4.08) this caused my browser to lock up, requiring a reboot of the computer. If the problem occurs with others, then that would be a concern. If anyone sees crashes on http://www.ch.ic.ac.uk/ please let me know and I will rapidly remove the code The "chime" statistics are also interesting, since I would have been pretty convinced that the rate amongst chemists was higher than 2% (I wonder if it detects both versions 1 and 2?). Finally, I wonder how one should handle the recording of such statistics. Normally, they go into your server logs. But in this case, they are all sent back (in real time) to hitbox.com, ie a 3rd party. Is it ethical to set up such a feature without giving users the right to "opt out" of the statistics gathering? Dr Henry Rzepa, Dept. Chemistry, Imperial College, LONDON SW7 2AY; mailto:rzepa@ic.ac.uk; Tel (44) 171 594 5774; Fax: (44) 171 594 5804. URL: http://www.ch.ic.ac.uk/rzepa/ If my digital email signature is invalid, download a new root at http://www.belsign.be/en/services/receive/install-ca.html chemweb: A list for Chemical Applications of the Internet. To post to list: mailto:chemweb@ic.ac.uk Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/chemweb/ To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@ic.ac.uk the following message; (un)subscribe chemweb List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@ic.ac.uk)