On-line resources are an abbreviated list of resources designed to complete course assignments. I found this section especially beneficial because I could list web sites as direct references for a particular assignment. The final section of the page consisted of a mechanism to communicate with students. The communication section contained a web-based form mail system that allowed students to email me directly over the web without having to log into their computer accounts. Because I want my web page to be tailored to my audience, I monitor access to files on my page.
Web servers maintain a log of all accesses.
All one needs to do is find the records for the page of interest, and aggregate the data. This can be done once a day, which results in interesting data on the number of hits per day, which files got hit, and from which domains the accesses originated. Webstat is a program that automatically analyzes the http logs, and generates reports of the accesses to web pages. Because webstat is placed in the top directory of the set of web directories, it provides a report for that directory and all subdirectories. In real terms, this means the web page answered students questions 140,000 times during two academic years.