Abstract

COUTIN DOMINGUEZ, Adrián; PENA ESCOBIO, Roger  and  NUNEZ GUDAS, Mirta. Comportamiento de la navegación en el sitio web de Infomed durante el período 2000 - 2001. ACIMED [online]. 2002, vol.10, n.1, pp.18-44. ISSN 1024-9435.

In order to study the behavior of navigation in Infomed Web site, it was established the level of access and of visits received at the site. The most visited pages, as well as the point where the navigation is interrupted were identified. Besides, the way in which the visitors navigate was approached and a series of data necessary to redefine the site as a health portal and to make easy the works of architecture was provided. The software known as Webalizer was used to collect the statitstics of access to the site. It was found a trend towards the increase both, in the number of access and in the number of visits to the site, as well as in the access from other countries between June, 2000, to May, 2001. In relation to the analysis of the users having access to and visiting the site, it was known that almost 25 % of the visits come from costumers of the health network, 4 available links with no access were determined in the main page of the site: Help, About Infomed, Health Surveillance and Reference Works. Recommendations were made to improve the access to the information resources existing in the site, the navigation mechanisms and the statistical control of the site, as well as to create mechanisms of dissemination of the contents of the site and to process the statistics of the access that are in the proxy.

Keywords : INTERNET [utilization]; INFORMATION SERVICES.