HGNC informatics
Web statistics, releases and development
Kristian Gray
Contents
- Hardware & infrastructure changes
- Web statistics
- Current HGNC site
- Future development
- New internal tools
Hardware & infrastructure changes
- Used to have two London data centres serving the HGNC site.
- EMBL-EBI systems team decided that the institute needed to consolodated into one data centre at Hemel Hempstead.
Previous architecture
New architecture
Web statistics
All statistics were collected by Google analytics between
Nov 1, 2015 - Oct 31, 2016
Number of users
| Total users | Mean | |
|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 704,064 | 58,672 per month |
| 2015 | 670,962 | 55,914 |
↑5% over the 12 month period
User behaviour
Oct 2016 compared to Oct 2015 & 2014| Date | Total page views | Resource | page views | Percentage of page views |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 2014 | 247,043 | Gene symbol reports | 118,094 | 48% |
| Old gene families | 12,679 | 5% | ||
| Oct 2015 | 262,586 ↑6% | Gene symbol reports | 127,275 | 45% |
| Old gene families | 5,886 | 2% | ||
| New gene families | 18,955 | 9% | ||
| Oct 2016 | 265,877 ↑1.3% | Gene symbol reports | 120,231 | 45% |
| Old gene families | 3,919 | 1% | ||
| New gene families | 28,044 | 11% |
Figures show that the number of page views has has a small increased however the uptake of the new gene families is still increasing.
Who are our biggest referers?
2015 = Nov 1, 2014 - Oct 31, 2015
2016 = Nov 1, 2015 - Oct 31, 2016
| Source | Date range | Number sessions | Percentage sessions | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2015 | 289,076 | 27% | |
| 2016 | 314,174 | 28% | ||
| 2 | direct | 2015 | 201,370 | 19% |
| 2016 | 273,607 | 24% | ||
| 3 | ncbi.nlm.nih.gov | 2015 | 156,916 | 15% |
| 2016 | 137,116 | 12% | ||
| 4 | *.ensembl.org | 2015 | 44,532 | 4% |
| 2016 | 58,786 | 5% | ||
| 5 | omim.org | 2015 | 55,128 | 5% |
| 2016 | 50,461 | 4% | ||
| 1,138,008 vs 1,084,586 | ↑ 5% | |||
5% increase in the total number of sessions in a year and a large increase of people directly accessing our site.
Most popular cross reference link 2015
Most popular cross reference link 2016
UniProt links slightly less popular than last year, however looking at the last years statistics in detail revealed one month with a huge spike for UniProt and so this years statistics seem more representive of a typical year. Comparing the two years shows that there isn't any major change in the use of cross reference links.
User locations
Just like last year most of our users are situated in the US.
What devices do people use to view genenames.org?
Use of mobile devices is on the increase
Significant increase in the use of mobile devices to view our site since spring this year.
Quick tour of the current website
- Static content served by Drupal 6 while dynamic content is perl CGI.
- Site is fixed width for smaller monitors.
- Not mobile or tablet friendly.
- Worked with the UX team to see what we could do to improve the site.
Beta website
- Cleaner design.
- Familiar flow through the website.
- Same design used for VGNC site to give a consistent design.
- Improved search and facet options.
- All running off one web server using AngularJS and Jekyll.
- But Drupal offered a WYSIWYG editor for the curators to edit the site?...
Site editor
New internal tools
Cytoband xref updater
