Steve,
Yes - many museums do make their statistics available online. The Science
Museum/NMSI stats can be found at http://www.nmsi.ac.uk/usage/index.html
You'll probably be aware however that webstats tend to be somewhat
difficult to interpret - what constitutes a 'hit', a 'visit', a 'session'
etc..... Also of course there's no telling *why* someone visited a site for
example, or what they thought, without actively soliciting opinions.
There were also some useful figures (gathered at great effort) in the
Netful of Jewels report.
Alice
At 02:55 PM 11/11/99 -0000, you wrote:
> Colin, Do any UK museums make web visitor statistics available for
>others to conduct this type of research? The Armouries, and I think all
>National Museums, participated in a government sponsored study into best
>practises and the web earlier this year. The Met. Museum in New York was
>used as a baseline to which UK sites were gauged. I'm not sure if this is
>available? http://www.metmuseum.org I suppose for evaluation you could
>look at any book on Human Computer Interaction. Steve Noon
>Royal Armouries -----Original Message-----
>From: Colin Hynson [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
>Sent: 11 November 1999 00:14
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Museums WWW site
> Dear all, I'm a new subscriber to this group so apologies if my
>question has been
>discussed before. I am about to start a major reappraisal of the WWW site
>for the Norfolk
>Museums Service and I have been looking at other museum WWW sites to get
>a feel for design, content etc. However, I would like to know whether any
>studies or research has been done
>into what makes a good museum WWW site. This might include a look at who
>visits such sites (tourists, local people, teachers etc.) and for what
>purpose. If anybody can help with this then I would be very grateful.
>Best wishes, Colin Hynson
>(Education Officer, Norfolk Museums Service)
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