Evaluating the online activity of users of the e-Bug web site | Zendy

Ed de Quincey | Zendy; Patty Kostkova | Zendy; Gawesh Jawaheer | Zendy; D. Farrell | Zendy; Cliodna McNulty | Zendy; Julius Weinberg | Zendy; Herman Goossens | Zendy; Niels Adriaenssens | Zendy; S. De Corte | Zendy; Jette Holt | Zendy; M. Noer | Zendy; Jenny Kremastinou | Zendy; Kyriakoula Merakou | Zendy; Dimitra Gennimata | Zendy; G. Cornaglia | Zendy; R. Koncan | Zendy; Paweł Grzesiowski | Zendy; Anna Olczak-Pieńkowska | Zendy; A. Brito Avô | Zendy; José Campos | Zendy

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Evaluating the online activity of users of the e-Bug web site

Author(s) -

Ed de Quincey,

Patty Kostkova,

Gawesh Jawaheer,

D. Farrell,

Cliodna McNulty,

Julius Weinberg,

Herman Goossens,

Niels Adriaenssens,

S. De Corte,

Jette Holt,

M. Noer,

Jenny Kremastinou,

Kyriakoula Merakou,

Dimitra Gennimata,

G. Cornaglia,

R. Koncan,

Paweł Grzesiowski,

Anna Olczak-Pieńkowska,

A. Brito Avô,

José Campos

Publication year - 2011

Publication title -

journal of antimicrobial chemotherapy

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.124

H-Index - 194

eISSN - 1460-2091

pISSN - 0305-7453

DOI - 10.1093/jac/dkr123

Subject(s) - world wide web , visitor pattern , page view , resource (disambiguation) , referral , web site , web page , health care , web resource , business , computer science , the internet , medicine , web development , static web page , political science , family medicine , computer network , law , programming language

Web server log analysis is being increasingly used to evaluate the user behaviour on healthcare resource web sites due to the detailed record of activity that they contain. This study aimed to use this information to evaluate the e-Bug web site, a healthcare resource that provides a range of educational resources about microbes, hand and respiratory hygiene, and antibiotics. This evaluation was conducted by analysing the web server logs of the e-Bug web site for the period January 2008 to November 2009, using a proprietary application named Sawmill. The e-Bug web site has had >900,000 page views generated from >88,000 users, with an increase in May 2009 during the swine flu epidemic and a further increase in September 2009 following the official launch of e-Bug. The majority of visitors were from the UK, but visits were recorded from 190 different countries. Word(®) document resources were downloaded >169,000 times, with the most popular being a swine flu factsheet. PowerPoint(®) document resources were downloaded >36,000 times, with the most popular relating to the 'chain of infection'. The majority of visitor referrals originated from search engines, with the most popular referral keywords being variations on the e-Bug name. The most common non-search engine referrals were from other healthcare resources and agencies. Use of the site has increased markedly since the official launch of e-Bug, with average page views of >200,000 per month, from a range of countries, illustrating the international demand for a teaching resource for microbes, hygiene and antibiotics.

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