Measuring Success Ed-Resources. In order to gauge the success of a website, the museum's goals must be clearly defined and a serious study of the website conducted. Measure Success Web servers track use.
Most museums keep digital logs of website activity.
However, as the number of users increases, the logs become unmanageably large. In addition, the information recorded in the logs is not always useful or easy to interpret. A hit consists of one request from a user's browser for one item. The item requested and the Internet address of the user is recorded. The number of hits indirectly relates to the number of visitors.