Impact Statement of Cyberbee

Sept 13, 2003

1. Peer recognition. Cyberbee was mentioned in the journal Science in 2001 as a "Hotpicks" site on its Netwatch section. Science is published by the American Association for Advancement of Science and is widely read by scientists around the world. Cyberbee is cited/linked by many websites, some prestigious journals (e.g. Science), search engines (google.com), museums, and resource sites for universities and K-12 schools. For an incomplete list of these citations, please see cyberbee citations.

2.The amount of information delivered by cyberbee.msu.edu is tremendous. The total number of requests made from between May 28th to Sept 30th (127 days) to cyberbee.msu.edu server was 1.29 million, transfering 13,957 megabytes of information. Using the most recent three months' statistics (Table 1), the web site received 342,134 requests and 17,941 page views per month (requests are the total number of files downloaded, including graphics; the number of requests for pages only counts the various pages on a site). This is equivalent to 4.1 million hits per year.

Table 1. Monthly statistics of access to cyberbee.msu.edu.

3. The impact of cyberbee.msu.edu is truly international in its scope. Cyberbee.msu.edu was accessed by a total of 130 domains, this represents 127 countries and regions in addition to USA.

Table 2. List of the 130 domains representing a total of 123 countries or regions (.net, .com, .us, .org, .gov, edu, .mil, and .vi are all considered as US domains, even though up to 30% of .net or .com domain names might belong to another country) that accessed cyberbee Jan 1, 2002 to Sept 3, 2003.

4. Some computers (most likely the same users) visited cyberbee repeatedly, indicating that they liked the information presented on the site and checked the site regularly for information.

Table 3. A sample of repeated visitors, their computer info and requests made between Jan 2002 - May 2003.

5. User feedback is positive. Users have indicated that the web site provides useful information for them. The letters below are sampled from the guest book entries. The entire guest book entries are arranged by year at http://cyberbee.msu.edu/guestbook/. Questions were answered privately if a comment included a question.

Sep 27 23:03:23 CDT 1998. Host IP: 208.20.32.210 I am Bob Dahlgren, my e-mail address is beeman@netsync.net. I am a beekeeper (more than 20 hives). This is a very good idea and set up - a place to find many WWW Addresses for Honeybee beekeeping info. I am the President of a beekeeper's Assoc. and this appears to be a good source to obtain subjects for discussions at meetings - always looking for new topics. Research, Genetics and Bee Breeding are always interesting..ä I want to Thank-you, Zachary Huang, for your well done efforts and Accomplishments. Bob

Jan 16 20:28:04 CST 1999. Host IP: 209.6.65.227. I am Gus Skamarycz, my e-mail address is pegus@ma.ultranet.com.. I am a beekeeper (more than 20 hives). Very interesting site. Will be teaching two beginner beekeeping classes starting the 27th and 28th of January 1999. One course is in Hudson, NH, and the other is in Acton, MA. Would like to get more information on Apis capensis, think it is very interesting. Keep up the good work, This will help all the new beekeepers, with the lack of wild bees because of varroa we may increase the number of beekeepers.

Feb 13 18:01:54 CST 1999. Host IP: 216.40.132.23. I am Larry Audet, my e-mail address is larryaud@hotmail.com. I am a hobby beekeeper (less than 20 hives). Best site I've seen!!! Great job. I wish I had access to this kind of information when I started beekeeping twenty years ago. I am going to teach some advanced biology students and can't wait to show them your work.

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