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April 2013 Social Media Stats

Ian McBride — Thu, 02 May 2013 12:30:38 +0000

The following stats refer to activity on the Middlebury College Facebook page, the Middlebury College Twitter account, and share buttons on the main Middlebury College website. For trend comparison, the previous month’s statistics are included in parentheses, where appropriate.

Facebook Insights

232 (326) new people liked our Page, while 54 (94) people unliked our Page.
1032 (1286) unique people shared stories about our page. These stories include liking our Page, posting to our Page’s Wall, liking, commenting on or sharing one of our Page posts, answering a Question we posted, RSVPing to one of our events, mentioning our Page, phototagging our Page or checking in at our Place. [Daily People Talking About This]
33979 (34072) unique people saw one of the items shared in that way. [Daily Viral Reach]
74593 (84316) unique people saw content associated with our Page. [Daily Total Reach]

Middlebury College offers 1,750 students acceptance to the Class of 2017. Shares: 27, Clicks 695
Middlebury College mourns loss of Kathryn Wasserman Davis. Shares: 10, Clicks 906
Men’s Lacrosse Sets Records, Advances To NESCAC Semis. Shares: 6, Clicks 52
Hoffman Earns NESCAC Player Of The Week Honors. Shares: 4, Clicks 29
Middlebury College Theatre Program Presents “Undressing Cinderella” April 10-13. Shares: 4, Clicks 26

Data Sets

April 2013 Web Stats

Ian McBride — Thu, 02 May 2013 12:30:26 +0000

For trend comparison, the previous month’s statistics are included in parentheses.

Traffic

www.middlebury.edu: 477,603 (503,806) visits from 262,735 (271,839) people
sites.middlebury.edu: 61,992 (59,798) visits from 50,683 (48,237) people
menus.middlebury.edu: 44,602 (37,682) visits from 23,930 (21,004) people
catalog.middlebury.edu 23,923 (9,128) visits from 21,025 (8,430) people
courses.middlebury.edu: 22,032 (19,818) visits from 16,569 (14,217) people
mediawiki.middlebury.edu: 19,982 (19,622) visits from 18,849 (18,237) people
portal.middlebury.edu: 18,434 (14,251) visits from 13,886 (10,605) people
web.middlebury.edu: 12,910 (10,257) visits from 11,965 (9,685) people
biblio.middlebury.edu: 12,485 (9,974) visits from 10,676 (8,896) people
eres.middlebury.edu: 11,465 (12,496) visits from 9,944 (9,971) people

Top Pages

www.middlebury.edu: 255,909 (257,489) pageviews
menus.middlebury.edu: 45,486 (38,390) pageviews
catalog.middlebury.edu/schedules/index/catalog/catalog/MCUG/term/term/201390: 42,379 (7,306) pageviews
www.middlebury.edu/athletics: 31,097 (40,349) pageviews
www.middlebury.edu/academics: 25,502 (22,684) pageviews
portal.middlebury.edu/home: 21,443 (16,932) pageviews
courses.middlebury.edu/dashboard: 20,794 (18,449) pageviews
courses.middlebury.edu: 18,973 (17,365) pageviews
web.middlebury.edu/database/directory/Default.aspx: 17,156 (14,120) pageviews
www.middlebury.edu/admissions: 16,541 (22,049) pageviews

Search Terms

Search Midd: 576 (717)
academic calendar: 255 (272)
floor plans: 154 (29)
course hub: 143 (149)
menu: 137 (159)
symposium: 131 (25)
moodle: 123 (126)
schedule planner: 109 (11)
mojo: 106 (182)
preview days: 98 (45)

Browsers

Safari: 37.25% (36.64%)
Chrome: 24.30% (22.38%)
Firefox: 17.12% (16.96%)
Internet Explorer: 16.83% (17.37%)
- IE8: 9.12% (9.00%)
- IE9: 4.18% (5.51%)
- IE7: 1.92% (2.01%)
- IE10: 1.53% (0.76%)
- IE6: 0.09% (0.09%)
Android Browser: 1.13% (1.26%)

Platforms

Macintosh: 45.28% (42.04%)
Windows: 39.14% (39.16%)
iOS: 11.15% (12.25%)
Android: 1.51% (1.59%)
Linux: 0.37% (0.38%)
BlackBerry: 0.10% (0.12%)
Windows Phone: 0.07% (0.05%)

March 2013 Web Stats

Ian McBride — Tue, 09 Apr 2013 21:00:55 +0000

For trend comparison, the previous month’s statistics are included in parentheses.

Traffic

www.middlebury.edu: 503,806 (481,033) visits from 271,839 (260,386) people
sites.middlebury.edu: 59,798 (66,202) visits from 48,237 (55,868) people
menus.middlebury.edu: 37,682 (32,759) visits from 21,004 (19,047) people
courses.middlebury.edu: 19,818 (18,946) visits from 14,217 (15,953) people
mediawiki.middlebury.edu: 19,622 (20,405) visits from 18,237 (19,517) people
portal.middlebury.edu: 14,251 (11,125) visits from 10,605 (9,389) people
eres.middlebury.edu: 12,496 (11,348) visits from 9,971 (10,271) people
web.middlebury.edu: 10,257 (11,686) visits from 9,685 (10,987) people
biblio.middlebury.edu: 9,974 (10,804) visits from 8,896 (9,744) people
catalog.middlebury.edu 9,128 (14,145) visits from 8,430 (12,695) people

Top Pages

www.middlebury.edu: 257,489 (286,339) pageviews
www.middlebury.edu/athletics: 40,349 (32,931) pageviews
menus.middlebury.edu: 38,390 (34,294) pageviews
www.middlebury.edu/academics: 22,684 (26,928) pageviews
www.middlebury.edu/admissions: 22,049 (22,339) pageviews
courses.middlebury.edu/dashboard: 18,449 (5,664) pageviews
www.middlebury.edu/admissions/apply/decisions: 18,010 (2,356) pageviews
courses.middlebury.edu: 17,365 (7,409) pageviews
www.middlebury.edu/athletics/sports: 17,150 (15,779) pageviews

portal.middlebury.edu/home: 16,932 (12,174) pageviews

Search Terms

Search Midd: 717 (727)
academic calendar: 272 (339)
mojo: 182 (266)
menu: 159 (155)
course hub: 149 (178)
moodle: 126 (201)
sites.middlebury.edu: 86 (127)
menus: 49 (50)
admitted students: 47 (9)

go/famis: 47 (47)

Browsers

Safari: 36,98% (37.72%)
Chrome: 24.01% (22.43%)
Firefox: 17.92% (18.38%)
Internet Explorer: 17,44% (18.47%)
- IE8: 8.97% (9.68%)
- IE9: 5.53% (6.04%)
- IE7: 2.04% (2.26%)
- IE10: 0.81% (0.41%)
- IE6: 0.08% (0.08%)
Android Browser: 1.26% (1.16%)

Platforms

Macintosh: 42.09% (44.62%)
Windows: 42.06% (40.71%)
iOS: 12.32% (11.51%)
Android: 1.66% (1.45%)
Linux: 0.41% (0.39%)
BlackBerry: 0.12% (0.11%)
Windows Phone: 0.07% (0.05%)

March 2013 Social Media Stats

Ian McBride — Tue, 09 Apr 2013 21:00:07 +0000

Facebook Insights

326 (229) new people liked our Page, while 94 (57) people unliked our Page.
1286 (2049) unique people shared stories about our page. These stories include liking our Page, posting to our Page’s Wall, liking, commenting on or sharing one of our Page posts, answering a Question we posted, RSVPing to one of our events, mentioning our Page, phototagging our Page or checking in at our Place. [Daily People Talking About This]
34072 (58721) unique people saw one of the items shared in that way. [Daily Viral Reach]
84316 (104926) unique people saw content associated with our Page. [Daily Total Reach]

Men’s Basketball Edges Ithaca To Earn Spot In Elite 8 Shares: 15, Clicks 272
Middlebury College offers 1,750 students acceptance to the Class of 2017 Shares: 14, Clicks 1540
Donahoe Named All-NESCAC – Silcoff Is Rookie Of The Year Shares: 13, Clicks 22
Women’s Hockey Knocks Off Plattsburgh – Headed To NCAA Championship Game Shares: 11, Clicks 254
Jonathan Safran Foer to deliver Middlebury College commencement address Shares: 9, Clicks 1151

Data Sets

February 2013 Web Stats

Ian McBride — Mon, 04 Mar 2013 14:00:22 +0000

For trend comparison, the previous month’s statistics are included in parentheses.

Traffic

www.middlebury.edu: 481,033 (520,072) visits from 260,386 (270,184) people
sites.middlebury.edu: 66,202 (51,526) visits from 55,868 (44,242) people
menus.middlebury.edu: 32,759 (33,886) visits from 19,047 (18,177) people
mediawiki.middlebury.edu: 20,405 (20,887) visits from 19,517 (19,447) people
courses.middlebury.edu: 18,946 (7,771) visits from 15,953 (6,340) people
catalog.middlebury.edu 14,145 (7,295) visits from 12,695 (7,262) people
web.middlebury.edu: 11,686 (11,891) visits from 10,987 (10,961) people
eres.middlebury.edu: 11,348 (5,711) visits from 10,271 (4,021) people
portal.middlebury.edu: 11,125 (9,710) visits from 9,389 (7,416) people
biblio.middlebury.edu: 10,804 (10,524) visits from 9,744 (9,104) people

Top Pages

www.middlebury.edu: 261,478 (286,339) pageviews
www.middlebury.edu/athletics: 33,819 (32,931) pageviews
menus.middlebury.edu: 33,206 (34,294) pageviews
www.middlebury.edu/academics: 24,321 (26,928) pageviews
courses.middlebury.edu/dashboard: 19,871 (5,664) pageviews
www.middlebury.edu/admissions: 18,174 (22,339) pageviews
courses.middlebury.edu: 17,336 (7,409) pageviews
www.middlebury.edu/athletics/sports: 16,035 (15,779) pageviews
web.middlebury.edu/database/directory/Default.aspx: 14,968 (14,762) pageviews
www.middlebury.edu/academics/lib: 13,982 (13,035) pageviews

Search Terms

Search Midd: 727 (894)
academic calendar: 339 (411)
mojo: 266 (338)
moodle: 201 (127)
course hub: 178 (88)
menu: 155 (163)
sites.middlebury.edu: 127 (94)
winter carnival: 97 (48)
schedule planner: 76 (27)
banner web: 57 (128)

Browsers

Safari: 37.72% (37.85%)
Chrome: 22.43% (22.10%)
Internet Explorer: 18.47% (18.93%)
- IE8: 9.68% (9.86%)
- IE9: 6.04% (6.34%)
- IE7: 2.26% (2.28%)
- IE10: 0.41% (0.37%)
- IE6: 0.08% (0.08%)
Firefox: 18.38% (18.42%)
Android Browser: 1.16% (1.23%)

Platforms

Macintosh: 44.62% (43.71%)
Windows: 40.71% (42.36%)
iOS: 11.51% (11.35%)
Android: 1.45% (1.50%)
Linux: 0.39% (0.37%)
BlackBerry: 0.11% (0.11%)
Windows Phone: 0.05% (0.05%)

February 2013 Social Media Stats

Ian McBride — Mon, 04 Mar 2013 14:00:02 +0000

Facebook Insights

229 (233) new people liked our Page, while 57 (52) people unliked our Page.
2049 (801) unique people shared stories about our page. These stories include liking our Page, posting to our Page’s Wall, liking, commenting on or sharing one of our Page posts, answering a Question we posted, RSVPing to one of our events, mentioning our Page, phototagging our Page or checking in at our Place. [Daily People Talking About This]
58721 (20737) unique people saw one of the items shared in that way. [Daily Viral Reach]
104926 (48283) unique people saw content associated with our Page. [Daily Total Reach]

Men’s Basketball Loses Triple-Overtime Thriller To Amherst Shares: 13, Clicks 8
Carolyn Kuebler to become editor of the New England Review Shares: 12, Clicks 691
Men’s Basketball To Host Curry In NCAA Tournament Game – Ticket Info. Shares: 8, Clicks 71
Soccer Drafts Crown Point’s Dmitri Duval From Team IMPACT Shares: 7, Clicks 343
Women’s DMR Team Breaks National Record Shares: 7, Clicks 295

Data Sets

Sunday Morning Maintenance

Ian McBride — Fri, 01 Mar 2013 14:33:56 +0000

On Sunday, March 3rd, during downtime we will be changing the url of our WordPress instance from “sites.middlebury.edu” to “sites.middlebury.edu.”

This work will begin at 8:00AM. It is expected that the change will take approximately one hour. During this time the web server will be shut down and you will not be able to read, comment on, or edit content hosted on WordPress.

The following message was sent to WordPress site owners on Thursday, the 22nd:

Thank you to everyone who participated in our survey on the change from “blogs” to “sites.”

On Sunday, February 24th, during downtime we will be changing the url of our WordPress instance from “sites.middlebury.edu” to “sites.middlebury.edu.”

What you need to do: NOTHING
This change only affects the url in the address bar of a browser, you do not need to move any content in your site.

Will your links still work? YES
We will be setting up a redirect so that anyone trying to visit a site using “sites.middlebury.edu” will be redirected to “sites.middlebury.edu.”

Can I still track visits to my site using Google Analytics? YES
Last January we made a change to have all Middlebury web applications crawled using one Google Analytic account. You will simply need to add the “sites.middlebury.edu” address in your segments.

Will this change my site or url if I use another address? Like middlab.middlebury.edu or southchinasea.org? NO
Sites that have their own url, their own subdomain, will not be affected by this change.

Please send questions about this change to Ian McBride.

WordPress Plugin Spotlight: Embed Google Docs in your Posts

Ian McBride — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 14:42:11 +0000

This is an ongoing series of posts to highlight some of the features that we have installed in WordPress that you might like to use on your site, but might not know are available.

This plugin requires little in the way of explanation. If you have a document hosted on Google Docs or Google Drive and want to embed it in a blog post or page, enable the Google Docs Shortcode plugin in your site’s administration interface. This plugin supports embedding documents, presentations, spreadsheets, and forms. You can use some shortcode like this to add your documents:

[gdoc link="LINK_TO_GOOGLE_DOC" height="600"]

Documentation on getting the link for the shortcode is available at that link. As an example, here’s are presentation slides from a session I gave on our Drupal architecture:

WordPress Plugin Spotlight: Tons of Features in Jetpack (Part 2)

Ian McBride — Fri, 08 Feb 2013 20:30:59 +0000

This is an ongoing series of posts to highlight some of the features that we have installed in WordPress that you might like to use on your site, but might not know are available.

WordPress is an open-source, community-built platform, but it also has a company behind it that coordinates activity and runs WordPress.com. This company Automattic, has released some of the most popular features of WordPress.com as a plugin they support named Jetpack. By connecting your site with a WordPress.com account, you get access to many additional features. This post describes the Contact Forms feature, but descriptions of other features can be found in part one of this post and are also available at their site.

Activating the Plugin

You can activate Jetpack as you would any other plugin in the WordPress administration interface for your site. After you activate the plugin, you need to connect it with a WordPress.com account. These are free to register on their site, but if you do not wish to create an account, let us know and we can connect it using one of ours. It is important to note at this point that all features of Jetpack are currently free to use, but some may require an additional payment in the future.

Contact Forms

The Jetpack plugin adds a feature for collecting simple feedback and information from visitors to your site through a custom form. Before we start, here are some things that these forms are not good at:

Collecting sensitive or personally identifiable information. This should never be done in our WordPress or Drupal sites. If you need to collect this type of information, please contact LIS so we can work on finding an appropriate solution.
Reporting. There’s no export feature for the data these forms collect. If you need to download the form data to Excel, consider using the Webform module in our Drupal site instead.
Complex form logic, branching, and advanced survey fields like scales and grids. These forms have only a few basic field types available and everything needs to be on the same page. Advanced survey features are available through our KeySurvey application and you can contact LIS for access.

But if you just want to add a basic feedback form or a poll to your blog or site in WordPress, this can be a handy tool.

Creating Forms

To add a new form to a post, click the form button to the right of the Add Media button while editing the post. This will bring up an interface with some example fields.

Modify that sample form to suit your needs and click the “Add this form to my post” button. This will put a bunch of shortcode text into the body of your post, but when you Publish the post visitors to your post will see the form.

Getting Feedback

When people submit the form, the results will be stored in the “Feedbacks” section available in the left sidebar of your site’s Dashboard.

Also, when creating your form, there is an “Email Notifications” tab that you can click on to send the form results to one or more email addresses.

Let us know what you think

[contact-form]

January 2013 Social Media Stats

Ian McBride — Sat, 02 Feb 2013 15:00:34 +0000

Facebook Insights

233 (325) new people liked our Page, while 52 (62) people unliked our Page.
801 (938) unique people shared stories about our page. These stories include liking our Page, posting to our Page’s Wall, liking, commenting on or sharing one of our Page posts, answering a Question we posted, RSVPing to one of our events, mentioning our Page, phototagging our Page or checking in at our Place.
20737 (28907) unique people saw one of the items shared in that way.
48283 (52082) unique people saw content associated with our Page.

Panther Cross Country Athlete Featured On Dan Rather Reports 21 Shares, 646 Clicks
MIL, Middlebury College launch Vermont World Language Initiative 11 Shares, 186 Clicks
Middlebury Center for Social Entrepreneurship to host symposium Jan. 24-26 10 Shares, 69 Clicks
Alison Byerly named president of Lafayette College 9 Shares, 362 Clicks
Panel discussion on Jan. 22 will explore how endowment should be invested 9 Shares, 249 Clicks

Library & Information Services » Ian McBride

April 2013 Social Media Stats

Facebook Insights

Top Five Facebook Posts

ShareThis

Shares By Channel

Top Five Shared Pages

Data Sets

April 2013 Web Stats

Traffic

Top Pages

Search Terms

Browsers

Platforms

March 2013 Web Stats

Traffic

Top Pages

Search Terms

Browsers

Platforms

March 2013 Social Media Stats

Facebook Insights

Top Five Facebook Posts

ShareThis

Shares By Channel

Top Five Shared Pages

Data Sets

February 2013 Web Stats

Traffic

Top Pages

Search Terms

Browsers

Platforms

February 2013 Social Media Stats

Facebook Insights

Top Five Facebook Posts

ShareThis

Shares By Channel

Top Five Shared Pages

Data Sets

Sunday Morning Maintenance

WordPress Plugin Spotlight: Embed Google Docs in your Posts

WordPress Plugin Spotlight: Tons of Features in Jetpack (Part 2)

Activating the Plugin

Contact Forms

Creating Forms

Getting Feedback

Let us know what you think

January 2013 Social Media Stats

Facebook Insights

Top Five Facebook Posts

ShareThis

Shares By Channel

Top Five Shared Pages

Data Sets