Comments on: Alexa – Tracking Whether There is Interest in ChemSpider

By: ChemSpider Blog » Blog Archive » ChemSpider Usage Continues to Grow In a Linear Fashion

Tue, 11 Sep 2007 03:43:48 +0000

[...] also use Alexa to browse our performance. The statistics are shown below for the increase in global users [...]

By: Peter Schneider

Peter Schneider — Sun, 09 Sep 2007 13:39:44 +0000

Trying compete with “emolecules.com” and “chemspider.com”:
http://siteanalytics.compete.com/chemspider.com+emolecules.com?metric=uv

Indeed, there is something obviously wrong with your “Alexa Rank”. Better not publish it!

By: Peter Schneider

Peter Schneider — Sun, 09 Sep 2007 13:37:33 +0000

Alexa can be manipulated to a certain extend by webmasters simply using the Alexa toolbar.

Interestingly, chemspider does not appear in compete:
http://siteanalytics.compete.com/chemspider.com

So the Alexa Rank does not give a clear signal.

Best regards

By: Antony Williams

Antony Williams — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 00:51:55 +0000

Thanks for the info Egon. We will likely set up Google Analytics as you suggest and take a look at logreport. As usual your feedback is very welcome. thank you so much,

By: Egon Willighagen

Egon Willighagen — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 08:30:25 +0000

I can recommend Google Analytics, which comes with very extensive analysis of your traffic. More powerful even, is the use of LogReport’s Lire (http://logreport.org/) which allows defining of custom reports, such as advanced queries to highlight which molecules a particular visitor looks at and in which order. This would be interesting, as it could provide a new service for ChemSpider (people who looked at this molecule, also found this molecule interesting). Note that the analysis is not restricted to Apache logs, but may include email traffic, FTP, etc I worked on Lire in the past, but I still feel it is the most powerful data analysis tool in the market.