About Erik Runyon

Erik is the Manager of Interactive Development for University Communications.

May 2013 Stats

Posted on June 5, 2013 by Erik Runyon

ND.edu

ND.edu Browsers

Traffic

792,506 views by 209,417 people

Browsers

IE 35%
- IE9 18%
- IE8 8%
- IE10 7%
- IE7 2%
Safari 27%
Chrome 21%
Firefox 14%

Platforms (Overall)

Windows 62%
Mac 24%
iOS 10%
Android 2%

Mobile Traffic

Total 13%
iOS 78%
Android 19%
Blackberry 0.8%
Windows Phone 0.7%

m.nd.edu

m.ND.edu Platforms

Traffic

42,394 views by 5,312
Top Content
- Food
- Athletics
- Map
- Webcams
- News

Platforms

iPhone 55% (-10%)
Android 28% (+6%)
Windows 6%
Macintosh 4%
iPad 3%
iPod 1%

Conductor

Conductor Browsers

325 live sites (+2)

Traffic

3,127,096 views by 781,798 people

Browsers

Chrome 28%
Safari 27%
IE 27%
- IE9 12%
- IE10 7%
- IE8 6%
- IE7 1%
Firefox 15%

Platforms

Windows 58%
Mac 25%
iPhone 7%
iPad 5%
Android 3%

Stats are compiled from Gaug.es by Github and Google Analytics.

About Erik Runyon

Erik is the Manager of Interactive Development for University Communications.

April 2013 Stats

Posted on May 2, 2013 by Erik Runyon

It’s been a quiet month. Browser stats are back to normal on m.ND.edu. IE10 made its debut on the ND.edu stats jumping in with 4%. Everything else was pretty steady from last month.

ND.edu

ND.Edu Browsers

Traffic

960,102 views by 267,091 people

Browsers

IE 36%
- IE9 22%
- IE8 8%
- IE10 4%
- IE7 2%
Safari 26%
Chrome 22%
Firefox 13%

Platforms (Overall)

Windows 63%
Mac 25%
iOS 9%
Android 2%

Mobile Traffic

Total 12%
iOS 79%
Android 19%
Blackberry 0.9%
Windows Phone 0.7%

m.nd.edu

m.ND.edu Platforms

Traffic

68,023 views by 5,750
Top Content
- Food
- Athletics
- Map
- Webcams
- Events

Platforms

iPhone 65%
Android 22%
Windows 4%
Macintosh 3%
iPad 2%
iPod 2%

Conductor

Conductor Browsers

323 live sites (+5)

Traffic

3,843,625 views by 836,602

Browsers

IE 29%
- IE9 15%
- IE10 8%
- IE8 5%
- IE7 1%
Chrome 27%
Safari 26%
Firefox 14%

Platforms

Windows 59%
Mac 26%
iPhone 6%
iPad 4%
Android 2%

Stats are from Gaug.es by Github and Google Analytics.

About Erik Runyon

Erik is the Manager of Interactive Development for University Communications.

March 2013 Stats

Posted on April 2, 2013 by Erik Runyon

Other than our People directory on m.nd.edu being scraped by a bot, there is nothing interesting to report this month other than IE10 making its debut in the stats (see Conductor browser stats below).

ND.edu

nddotedu-browsers

Traffic

979,411 views by 279,137 people

Browsers

IE 35%
- IE9 22%
- IE8 8%
- IE7 2%
Safari 28%
Chrome 21%
Firefox 14%

Platforms (Overall)

Windows 61%
Mac 24%
iOS 11%
Android 3%

Mobile Traffic

Total 14%
iOS 80%
Android 19%
Blackberry 0.9%
Windows Phone 0.6%

m.nd.edu

It appears that on March 6-7 someone was scraping our People directory to the tune of 5,000 more views than it should have. They were using a Windows user agent, so this months m.nd.edu stats are highly suspect.

mdot-platforms

Traffic

206,144 views by 5,768
Top Content
- Food
- People
- Webcams
- Athletics
- Map

Platforms

Windows 71%
iPhone 18%
Android 8%
iPad 1%
Macintosh 1%
iPod 1%

Conductor

318 live sites (+4)

conductor-browsers

Traffic

3,336,815 views by 792,056

Browsers

Chrome 28%
Safari 27%
IE 26%
- IE9 18%
- IE8 6%
- IE10 1%
- IE7 1%
Firefox 15%

Platforms

Windows 58%
Mac 27%
iPhone 6%
iPad 5%
Android 2%

Stats are from Gaug.es by Github and Google Analytics.

About Erik Runyon

Erik is the Manager of Interactive Development for University Communications.

February 2013 Stats

Posted on March 5, 2013 by Erik Runyon

This month we saw a significant drop in mobile traffic and rise in desktop traffic. This is due to last months huge jump in mobile usage from the BCS bowl game traffic.

ND.edu

Graph of ND.edu Browsers

Traffic

889,240 views by 237,849 people

Browsers

IE 35%
- IE9 22% (+4%)
- IE8 9%
- IE7 3%
Safari 28% (-8%)
Chrome 20%
Firefox 15%

Platforms (Overall)

Windows 61% (+7%)
Mac 26% (+5%)
iOS 9% (-10%)
Android 2%

Mobile Traffic

Total 11%
iOS 78%
Android 20%
Blackberry 0.9%
Windows Phone 0.6%

m.nd.edu

graph of m.nd.edu platforms

Traffic

71,385 views by 5,442 people
Top Content
- Food (+1)
- Webcams (+1)
- Athletics (-1)
- Map
- Weather

Platforms

iPhone 63% (+5%)
Android 24%
Windows 4%
iPad 3%
Macintosh 3%
iPod 2%
BlackBerry 1%

Conductor

graph of Conductor browsers

314 live sites (+6)

Traffic

3,373,488 views by 741,572 people

Browsers

Chrome 29%
Safari 29%
IE 23%
- IE9 15%
- IE8 6%
- IE7 1%
Firefox 16%

Platforms

Windows 56%
Mac 30%
iPhone 6%
iPad 5%
Android 2%

Stats are from Gaug.es by Github and Google Analytics.

About Erik Runyon

Erik is the Manager of Interactive Development for University Communications.

January 2013 Stats

Posted on February 10, 2013 by Erik Runyon

Better late than never, we present the first months stats of 2013. The most interesting stat of the month is that while MacOS makes up 21% of platform traffic on ND.edu, iOS isn’t far behind with 19%. Contrast that with our Conductor sites where iOS totals 12% (for 308 sites).

ND.edu

ND.edu Browsers

Traffic

1,447,230 views by 504,006 people

Browsers

Safari 36%
IE 31%
- IE9 18%
- IE8 9%
- IE7 2%
Chrome 18%
Firefox 13%

Platforms (Overall)

Windows 54%
Mac 21%
iOS 19% (+3%)
Android 6%

Mobile Traffic

Total 24%
iOS 74%
Android 24%
Blackberry 1%
Windows Phone 0.6%

m.nd.edu

m.nd.edu Platforms

Traffic

75,900 views by 7,998 people
Top Content
- Food (+1)
- Athletics (-1)
- Webcams
- Map
- Academics (+1)

Platforms

iPhone 58% (+3%)
Android 26% (-4%)
Windows 4%
Macintosh 3%
iPod 3%
iPad 2%
BlackBerry 1%

Conductor

Conductor Browsers

308 live sites (+9)

Traffic

3,866,802 views by 958,304 people

Browsers

Safari 30%
Chrome 27%
IE 24%
- IE9 15%
- IE8 7%
- IE7 2%
Firefox 16%

Platforms

Windows 55%
Mac 28%
iPhone 7%
iPad 5%
Android 3%

Stats are from Gaug.es by Github and Google Analytics.

About Erik Runyon

Erik is the Manager of Interactive Development for University Communications.

Our Head is in the Clouds

Posted on January 31, 2013 by Erik Runyon

A joint effort between the Office of Information Technologies (OIT) and University Communications resulted in the decision to migrate the Notre Dame website to the Amazon Web Services (AWS) system.

Since January 3, visitors to the Notre Dame website are now being served by systems located in three separate Amazon.com data centers. The University benefits in four ways from this move:

Automatic scalability—the website will automatically increase its capacity based on increased visitor traffic. For example, the BCS National Championship caused traffic to nd.edu to spike to five times its normal level, and the Amazon infrastructure automatically added more servers to meet the increased demand, and then removed those servers once traffic returned to normal levels.
Increased availability—the main web pages and key components of the list (i.e., emergency.nd.edu) are published from three different AWS data centers in the eastern region. This ensures nd.edu will keep working if services at any one data center or here at Notre Dame were to become unavailable.
Simplicity—AWS provides simple access to highly complex information technology, allowing University Communications and OIT staff to spend their time on other areas that add value.
Cost savings—When the AWS system automatically adds needed capacity, the University only is charged for capacity actually used. This prevents the University from having to purchase hardware for peak demand levels that only happen occasionally.

The change happened behind the scenes so the experience for anyone visiting nd.edu is exactly the same. Both University Communications and the OIT are pleased with the success of this project.

The nd.edu move to Amazon Web Services is a first step in a cloud strategy that will identify ways to leverage cloud-based technologies to enhance University systems and services.

Lenette Votava
Marketing Professional
Enterprise Support Services

About Erik Runyon

Erik is the Manager of Interactive Development for University Communications.

Gameday Bump

Posted on January 8, 2013 by Erik Runyon

It’s always interesting to watch stats around football weekends as there’s usually a pretty big spike whether it’s home or away. Last night Notre Dame football played in its biggest game in my 5+ years at the university. And even though the game didn’t end in a way any of us here wanted, the stats themselves are quite fun. Below are graphs for the past 24 hours from the main site, our mobile site, the map and Conductor (the campus CMS).

It’s interesting in the fact that not only did the homepage see a spike of traffic at game time, but traffic across the board recorded a huge jump. One stat that’s not listed below that speaks to the two-screen conversation where users are making use of their mobile devices while watching tv, the traffic to ND.edu yesterday was 53% mobile and 9.6% tablet. Those percentages are more usually 11% and 4%.

ND.edu

ND.edu 24 hour stats

m.ND.edu

m.ND.edu 24 hour stats

map.ND.edu

map.ND.edu 24 hour stats

Conductor CMS (304 sites)

Conductor CMS 24 hour stats

About Erik Runyon

Erik is the Manager of Interactive Development for University Communications.

2012 Stats Review

Posted on January 2, 2013 by Erik Runyon

We’re taking a break from our monthly stats review to take a look back on some key changes that happened over the course of the year.

ND.edu

Mobile traffic on the ND homepage went from 5% to 14% while tablets increased from 3% to 5%. This year also resulted in us discontining support for IE7 as it dropped from 11% to 3%. IE saw an overall decrease of 11% while Safari increased 9% overall. If 2012′s trends continue this year, then we should be able to drop support for IE8 by mid to late 2013.

m.ND.edu

The platforms visiting m.nd.edu shifted slightly as iPhone went from 45% to 51%, Android dropped from 35% to 29%, desktop browsers (Mac and Windows combined) climbed from 3% to 14% and poor neglected Blackberry dropped from 5% to 1%. I find the increase in desktop traffic interesting. It goes to show that users, once they know the content exists, will use whatever device they have handy to get the content they want.

Conductor

Conductor Platforms

Conductor finished the year with 304 live sites. Browser share stats for the end of the year are as follows:

Safari 30%
Chrome 27%
IE 25%
- IE9 16%
- IE8 7%
- IE7 2%
Firefox 16%

Mobile traffic increased across the network from 8% to 13%. For added interest, following are mobile increases for selected sites from January to December:

ND.edu 5% -> 14%
125 (Launched May 12) 18% -> 40%
Admissions 11% -> 21%
Blogs 7% -> 14%
Calendar 30% -> 40%
Game Day 28% -> 35%
ND News 16% -> 25%
Magazine 18% -> 29%
Supporting 10% -> 23%
Tour 13% -> 22%

It’s worth noting that the vast majority of Notre Dame web properties showed a significant increase in mobile traffic this past year, in most cases doubling that of 2011.

Chart of Mobile Traffic Increases

Tune in next month when we’ll have new stats for January and find out how many people are visiting Notre Dame on their mobile and tablet Christmas gifts.

About Erik Runyon

Erik is the Manager of Interactive Development for University Communications.

November 2012 Stats

Posted on December 5, 2012 by Erik Runyon

Once again we have a fairly boring month. The only notable change would be a 5% increase in iOS traffic on ND.edu. Tune in next month for a year-end analysis of changes and trends.