Comments on: Alexa, Compete and Website Statistics http://www.chemspider.com/blog/alexa-compete-and-website-statistics.html Building Community for Chemists Tue, 16 Mar 2010 21:05:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: David Bradley http://www.chemspider.com/blog/alexa-compete-and-website-statistics.html/comment-page-1#comment-30784 David Bradley Mon, 14 Apr 2008 16:07:06 +0000 http://www.chemspider.com/blog/alexa-compete-and-website-statistics.html#comment-30784 It's interesting you should mention server load with Google Anal, I ended up having to switch host for one of my sites because some script or other was overloading the server and the host wanted me to upgrade without explanation. It could have been GA...never occurred to me that they'd be leeching so much bandwidth. db It’s interesting you should mention server load with Google Anal, I ended up having to switch host for one of my sites because some script or other was overloading the server and the host wanted me to upgrade without explanation. It could have been GA…never occurred to me that they’d be leeching so much bandwidth.

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]]> By: Antony Williams http://www.chemspider.com/blog/alexa-compete-and-website-statistics.html/comment-page-1#comment-30779 Antony Williams Mon, 14 Apr 2008 15:53:31 +0000 http://www.chemspider.com/blog/alexa-compete-and-website-statistics.html#comment-30779 We did add Google Analytics for awhile but it was causing us issues with some of its own bugs as well as giving us high traffic load that was adding to server burden. It may be time to go back and revisit the use of the system now we are out of beta. I've examined the stats in a rudimentary way and don't see any specific patterns that are obvious...they may be there but I just don't see them. The spikes such as "Xanax" that I see are there because it's one of my examples...same for Taxol and Quesnoin. If you have common chemicals that you want to run anyways I say go for it! We did add Google Analytics for awhile but it was causing us issues with some of its own bugs as well as giving us high traffic load that was adding to server burden. It may be time to go back and revisit the use of the system now we are out of beta. I’ve examined the stats in a rudimentary way and don’t see any specific patterns that are obvious…they may be there but I just don’t see them. The spikes such as “Xanax” that I see are there because it’s one of my examples…same for Taxol and Quesnoin. If you have common chemicals that you want to run anyways I say go for it!

]]> By: Chris Singleton http://www.chemspider.com/blog/alexa-compete-and-website-statistics.html/comment-page-1#comment-30773 Chris Singleton Mon, 14 Apr 2008 15:22:28 +0000 http://www.chemspider.com/blog/alexa-compete-and-website-statistics.html#comment-30773 Will Google Analytics enable us to see which users are accessing which molecules? If there are several that are queried frequently, then we may push some of our deposition efforts towards those. If there is a readily available chemical that is looked up a great deal then we could get the real spectra for that compound, and maybe provide a bit more info than I would normally deposit for an 'average' compound. I still have access to an NMR and a high res MS for some stuff, as well as several common chemicals, so that might be worth checking out. Will Google Analytics enable us to see which users are accessing which molecules? If there are several that are queried frequently, then we may push some of our deposition efforts towards those. If there is a readily available chemical that is looked up a great deal then we could get the real spectra for that compound, and maybe provide a bit more info than I would normally deposit for an ‘average’ compound. I still have access to an NMR and a high res MS for some stuff, as well as several common chemicals, so that might be worth checking out.

]]> By: David Bradley http://www.chemspider.com/blog/alexa-compete-and-website-statistics.html/comment-page-1#comment-30283 David Bradley Sat, 12 Apr 2008 09:09:53 +0000 http://www.chemspider.com/blog/alexa-compete-and-website-statistics.html#comment-30283 It's been quite well known among SEOs for quite some time that analytics such as Alexa and Compete are generally not accurate ways of measuring the success of a site. Outside, SEO circles though, no one really worries about them. Google Analytics or a similar tool is really the only way to go, however, presenting those validated stats publicly is not as viable as displaying google pagerank, compete or alexa values. db It’s been quite well known among SEOs for quite some time that analytics such as Alexa and Compete are generally not accurate ways of measuring the success of a site. Outside, SEO circles though, no one really worries about them. Google Analytics or a similar tool is really the only way to go, however, presenting those validated stats publicly is not as viable as displaying google pagerank, compete or alexa values.

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