We measure our Web traffic in visits rather than hits. A visit is the number of times someone actually comes to the Web site and views a page.
A hit is the number of files a Web server accesses each time a user visits a page. For example, if you visit a page with four photos, that’s five hits, one for the page and one for each of the photos. For this reason, hits often aren’t a good indication of Web traffic.
The DCCCD Office of Internet Publishing, under the leadership of Georgeann Moss, district director of Internet Publishing, recently released a report about the performance of the DCCCD Web site for the last calendar year. During 2008, the DCCCD site received 8.56 million visits by 4.4 million unique visitors. This total does not include all of the visits made directly to eCampus and eConnect. The DCCCD site serves a variety of audiences including current students, future students, employees, future employees and business and community members. In 2008, students (future and current) made up 85 percent of visitors and employees were 14 percent.
Most visited areas included the DCCCD home page, the eCampus and eConnect home pages, student NetMail and the Courses and Programs page. The DCCCD home page is the default page for many employees, so each time an employee opens an Internet browser the default page is counted.
There also is a Frequently Asked Questions section of the site, which allows students to find answers to the most common questions asked about district services. When students are able to find their own answers on the Web site, it reduces the number of students who have to call our offices to ask their questions. If you've never looked at the FAQ section, check it out at http://ernt.dcccd.edu/scripts/district.cfg/php.exe/enduser/std_alp.php. You might even learn some things you didn’t know!
Some of the most viewed questions include the following.
If you'd like to know more, visit the Key Performance Indicators report. It lists the top 20 pages and breaks down the visits by audiences and programs.
The Brookhaven College Web site, under the leadership of Raymond Imaican, senior Web developer and programmer, received more than 1.58 million visits in 2008 with more than 498,000 visitors. Travis Haapala and Russell Hixon also support the college’s Web development and programming through their expertise. The college’s Internet Publishing Department falls under the Marketing and Public Information Office. The college’s top visited pages include the home page, the main course schedules page, the library home page and the A-Z index.
View our top 20 pages and top program pages here.
