Back to School: A Week in Numbers

Fall semester began last Monday August 22, so I thought I’d share some numbers from the website.

Eight days a week – if it’s good enough for the Fab Four, it’s good enough for me.

Monday August 22 – Monday August 29

Overall: 79, 836 pageviews

That dip you see? Saturday. And, you might be able to just make out the top browser: Chrome.

Top 10 pages

1. Homepage – 16,909 hits (21% traffic)
2. Fall 2016 Ensemble Information – 4091 (5%)
3. Music Library – 3210 (4%)
4. PED (Performing Ensembles Division, Music) – 3066 (3.8%)
5. A-Z List of Resources – 1710 (2%)
6. Student Jobs at the Libraries – 1631 (2%)
7. Herman B Wells Library – 1313 (1.6%)
8. Hours – 990 (1.2%)
9. Education Library – 942 (1%)
10. Business/SPEA Information Commons – 841 (1%)

No other page logged more than one percent of overall hits for the site in that time frame – that’s pretty typical behavior for us. What does that mean? Well, we have a lot of pages, and we have a lot of people entering somewhere other than the home page.

What was our most used resource? Google Scholar, with 330 hits, followed by the New York Times with 316.

About 5000 sessions were via smartphones – that’s 15% of our overall traffic, which is up 150% from our previous average of about 10%. Only 2% of our users reached us via a tablet.

Where did the desktop users click? Have a look!