Comments on: Over Two and a Half Thousand Registered Users on ChemSpider…And Growing http://www.chemspider.com/blog/2500-registered-users-on-chemspiderand-growing.html Building Community for Chemists Tue, 21 May 2013 16:16:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5 By: Antony Williams http://www.chemspider.com/blog/2500-registered-users-on-chemspiderand-growing.html/comment-page-1#comment-138557 Antony Williams Tue, 03 Mar 2009 15:38:49 +0000 http://www.chemspider.com/blog/?p=1089#comment-138557 Egon, Your questions are good questions but I’ll confess that I haven’t navigated my way through all of the logfiles to determine the answers and don’t have time to do so at present. But, I’ll make a judgment call based on historical observations

1) We’re averaging 6000 unique users per day and 10s of 1000s of transactions. I should think that the majority of registrants are users
2) I don’t think there’s a bias between registered/non-registered in terms of looking at spectra
3) People have different interests of course but they seem to like the synonyms, physchem properties and links to external data sources primarily.
4) It’s difficult to get that granularity
5) InChI is popular among most people and there are a lot of InChI searches going on. Standard InChI is brand new and hardly touched.
6) The majority of registered users do NOT contribute – it is a small group of people who do. And we really appreciate their contributions.

]]> By: Egon Willighagen http://www.chemspider.com/blog/2500-registered-users-on-chemspiderand-growing.html/comment-page-1#comment-138460 Egon Willighagen Tue, 03 Mar 2009 09:07:22 +0000 http://www.chemspider.com/blog/?p=1089#comment-138460 So, the clear follow up questions are:

* how many registered users are active instead of lurkers?
* are there differences in how registered and unregistered user lurk^Wsearch CS?
** e.g. do registered users look at more spectra (or other way around)
** are there other bits of specialized properties they like?
** do they overlap with what they contribute?
** how popular is the (S)InChI amongst both groups?
* what the median amount of contribution made per registered user?

I would not expect you to have this answer right away, but would be insightful to see how chemists use chemical databases? Which bits of information they access, etc.

In the past I worked at a open source start up (LogReport), which never took off due to the lack of a good salesman, where we wrote software for data analysis of site traffic (not just web, but email, ftp, etc)… It’s basically Google Analytics for free, but without the nice graphics… (which might also explain why it never really took off). Debian/Ubuntu users can install it from the ‘lire’ package…)

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