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Word of the Week is finals schedule

The top three search queries from last week were

1. finals schedule
2. vista
3. library

I’m guessing that students are turning in assignments to WebCT Vista in preparation for finals and looking to study or finish group projects in the library.

Mulling through some more data, here’s a look at the Campus web server statistics from the last 6 months compared with the previous 6 months.

• Internet Explorer users declined by 14%
• Firefox users grew by 1.8%
• Safari users grew by 6%
• Windows users declined 12%~
• Mac users increased 10%~
• Users with monitors set to 1680×1050 grew 30%~
• Users with monitors set to 800×600 fell 25%
• Users with monitors set to 1024×768 fell 26%

Here are some fun facts from the last twelve months.

• Over 1.3 million visitors viewed the CSU Chico web site
• Those visitors generated over 12.7 million measured pageviews
• Each visitor viewed an average of 1.48 pages
• Visitors spent an average of 2 minutes and 11 seconds on the web site
• 27% of all traffic originated from Google.
• 13% of the keywords used to find CSU Chico was chico state
• 72% of visitors used Internet Explorer
• 34% of visitors were from on-campus
• Outside of the US, India was the second highest location for visitors with 0.21%

Word of the Week is finals schedule

In a post-Thanksgiving week, what could be on the minds of students more than finals?

Word of the Week is calendar

Last week, with Thanksgiving providing an opportunity for many workers to take some extended vacation, it comes as no surprise that few searches were performed from on campus. How few? Of the 8,162 unique searches performed last week, only 1,017 of which came from on-campus. That is approximately 12.5% of searches compared with the previous week where 27.4% of searches originated from on-campus.