Re: Browser stats on a chemistry site
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)
It is also hard to believe that such a small number had Acrobat - or did the program only check for the plugin not the Reader? As a librarian trying hard to supply the electronic journals my chemists want, it is disconcerting to realize that so few will be able to read them. Kitty Porter
Date: Fri, 19 Feb 1999 08:59:59 +0000 To: chemweb@ic.ac.uk From: "Rzepa, Henry" <h.rzepa@ic.ac.uk> Subject: Re: Browser stats on a chemistry site Reply-to: "Rzepa, Henry" <h.rzepa@ic.ac.uk>
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)
Kitty Porter Stevenson Science & Engineering Library 419 21st Avenue South Vanderbilt University Nashville TN 37240 Phone: 615-343-7106 Fax: 615-343-7249 Email: porter@library.vanderbilt.edu 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)
participants (2)
-
Katherine Porter
-
Rzepa, Henry