We are currently in the process of redesigning and adding more functionality to the University wide calendar (more on this later).  We decided to run some statistics to see what people have used and to get a better understanding of our users.  Here are some interesting statistics we came across.
Statistics
136 separate calendars
30,804 total events among [...]

I have not talked a lot about the number of visitors our homepage (wayne.edu) gets on a monthly basis because it really didn’t cross my mind. I won’t go too in depth but I will give you insight into some general statistics and trends.
Stats from June 15 – July 15, 2009
Top Pages

Of course the homepage [...]

We don’t usually tell the community when we are doing A/B testing so the results don’t get skewed. One recent one has been running for the past few weeks and it looks like its not going to end up with a conclusive result so we are stopping the test right now.
“Schools & Colleges” vs ”Academic Programs”
We [...]

Over at .eduGuru they are searching for a new blogger. They took applications and had everyone write a guest post, they then let the community decide who the next blogger should be.
I was one of the applicants and wrote my post on Tracking Flash Interaction with Google Analytics. The goal was to not only give [...]

If you are a web worker and haven’t seen it yet, please take ten minutes to complete the 2008 A List Apart survey so we can build a snapshot of our industry.

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Previously had no concrete statistics about which social networks our current or prospective students use. Last week we ran some statistics for the visitors of the wayne.edu homepage to figure out which social networks they had visited.  We ran it on the weekend of May 31 to June 1st to get the largest percentage of [...]