Site Description: The site is used by teachers, students, genetic counselors, geneticists, other health care professionals, families, and other educators. There are three interlinked main home pages:
I. Information for Genetic Professionals http://www.kumc.edu/gec/geneinfo.html - for genetic counselors, clinical geneticists, and medical geneticists
II. Genetic conditions and support groups http://www.kumc.edu/gec/support/ - for individuals and families with genetic conditions or birth defects, genetic counselors, clinical geneticists, and medical geneticists
III. Genetic Educational Information http://www.kumc.edu/gec/ - for secondary science teachers
Site Utilization:
The site consists of over 550 internal pages, with links to over 3,000 external pages. The site is maintained by a Genetic Counselor with support from an advisory panel of geneticists and librarians, as well as technical support from University of Kansas Pulse development unit.
Approximately 140,000 pages are accessed weekly (excluding hits to graphics and internal use of the site). This represents approximately 86,000 visits each week, as determined using WebTrends. Each visit lasts several minutes to hours. However, a 30-minute interruption ends a visit.
Site maintenance:
Weekly and monthly reports from WebTrends are used to evaluate site utilization and effectiveness. Summary reports from Linkbot are evaluated to update links and maintain the site.
Site sponsorship:
This site is sponsored by the Medical Genetics Department, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS.
Site advertising:
No advertising is used on the site.
Revised June 18, 2003
