University Web Traffic Up 20%
Traffic at the Health Science Center's web site in 2008 rose to its highest level since recordkeeping began in 2003. The site recorded 28.9 million page views, an increase of 20 percent from the year before.
11.2 million 2003 |
17 million 2004 |
19.5 million 2005 |
24.4 million 2006 |
24 million 2007 |
28.9 million 2008 |
Source: Systems and Network Operations Department | |||||
A "page view" is a marketing metric that describes one person -- actually a computer IP address -- viewing one page during a set period of time. The university only counts visits at least three days apart to exclude multiple visits by the same person, said Jim Barrett, webmaster.
Traffic on the Health Science Center's two institutional web servers has risen sharply since recordkeeping began in 2003. "We do not measure the traffic on more than a dozen additional web servers running on campus," Barrett said. "I'd estimate that these servers receive an additional 5-8 million page views a year."
The Health Science Center hosts about 140 web sites for departments, schools and other entities on the institutional servers. On these servers, the most active single web page is the university portal, inside.uthscsa.edu, which was viewed about 6 million times in 2008.
Other statistical profiles from 2008:
- Browsers? About 74 percent of visitors use Microsoft Internet Explorer, followed by Mozilla-based browsers such as Firefox at 15 percent, and Safari, at 4 percent.
- Search engines? Google brings more traffic to the university's web sites than any other search engine. Traffic share: Google, 82 percent; Yahoo!, 12 percent, and MSN, 4 percent.