February 2013 Web Stats

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

Traffic

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

Top Pages

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

Search Terms

  1. Search Midd: 727 (894)
  2. academic calendar: 339 (411)
  3. mojo: 266 (338)
  4. moodle: 201 (127)
  5. course hub: 178 (88)
  6. menu: 155 (163)
  7. sites.middlebury.edu: 127 (94)
  8. winter carnival: 97 (48)
  9. schedule planner: 76 (27)
  10. 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

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

  • 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]

Top Five Facebook Posts

“Reach” is the number of people who saw the post. “Engagement” is the number of people who clicked on the post.

  1. Middlebury students are confronting a formerly taboo subject — how much each of them pays to be at Midd. Check out this article in the Chronicle of Higher Education. Reach: 8101, Engagement: 1489
  2. Middlebury is the most “winter wonderful” campus according to BuzzFeed. (Beautiful pic by Midd staffer Adam Franco!) Reach: 713, Engagement: 1069
  3. This amazing short film by new Feb graduate Bianca Giaever ’12.5 might be the best eight minutes you’ll spend today. (It’s quickly gone viral and you’ll see why when you watch it.) Reach:7356, Engagement: 999
  4. Do you have fond memories of J-term? Tell us what J-term course you’d want to teach if you came back to Midd. some day. Reach: 5997, Engagement: 377
  5. Check out the Feb Cam video, shot today at the annual ski-down celebration for February graduates. Special thanks to Feb Hanna Howell for wearing the camera up and down the mountain. Reach: 5077, Engagement: 290

ShareThis

ShareThis is a service that tracks the clicks on the sharing buttons on our website. These buttons are shown on news postings, which are primarily found in the News Room, Arts, Sustainability, and Athleticssections of the site.

Shares By Channel

  • Facebook: 72 (51) Shares, 3359 (3332) Clicks
  • Twitter: 31 (43) Shares, 579 (425) Clicks
  • Email: 28 (39) Shares, 248 (1050) Clicks
  • LinkedIn: 6 (13) Shares, 4 (6) Clicks

Top Five Shared Pages

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

Data Sets

Banner Systems Outage

All Banner systems ( INB & SSB/web) are currently unavailable. We have Ellucian technicians working on the problem and will update you as we know more and when the systems are back and available for use.

Thank you-

Carol Peddie

Associate Dean & Director, Enterprise Applications

Library & Information Services,  Middlebury College

Sunday Morning Maintenance

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

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:

[gdoc link=”https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1YiHvqgG41ic-JUgbYf3XdSmJyIj7QblwTn6wPj09ONo/pub?start=false&loop=false&delayms=3000″ height=”600″]

LIS R&R Crew Awards for February

The LIS Recognition & Recreation Crew is pleased to announce February’s recipients of the Employees and Crew of the Month Awards.

Crew of the Month – Research and Instruction Workgroup – Carrie Macfarlane, Hans Raum, Steve Bertolino, Brenda Ellis, Richard Jenkins, Joy Pile, Wendy Shook and Kristina Simmons

Employee of the Month – Jim Stuart

Student Employee of the Month – Meade Atkeson

Congratulations to all!

The R&R Crew needs award nominations! Nominate LIS students, staff, & crews at go/nominate! Please be sure to include details about why the nominee deserves recognition.

FakeAV a leading threat in 2013

What is FakeAV: FakeAV is a virus designed to look like real anti-virus software in the hopes that the victim will click a link and download a malicious package. The malware often does not stop there. Many FakeAV packages continue the con by disabling true anti-virus packages claiming that they are harming the system they are intended to protect. These viruses come in many forms but are well crafted to present like a trusted virus prevention source.

Read more about FakeAV at: http://www.middlebury.edu/offices/technology/security/InfosecArticle. 

Learn more about security threats and awareness at http://go.middlebury.edu/infosec