Better late than never, here are July’s stats. Two stats of note include a 5% increase for iOS on our ND Mobile traffic and a 3.5% increase of overall mobile traffic for Conductor. Continue reading “July 2014 Stats”
June 2014 Stats
This month saw a climb in IE11 traffic at the expense of IE10, while IE9 remained flat. It’s also worth noting that in Google Analytics (under Audience > Mobile) is now splitting “Windows Phone” (version 7.5), and “Windows” (version 8.1), which started showing up on June 17. Continue reading “June 2014 Stats”
A Brand New Search Experience
Last month you may have noticed that search.nd.edu had a slightly different look. Not only did the site get a facelift, but the entire infrastructure changed as well. In the past, search at Notre Dame ran on a dedicated device housed in and maintained by the Hesburgh Library. This device, bought from Google, allowed us to have our own search ecosystem, but there were a number of downsides. Not only did the library have to put resources toward the maintenance and management of the device, but it also had to be upgraded every few years. One other problem was that it was fairly labor intensive to update the public interface for the device. So even after the university as a whole moved on to mobile friendly websites, search.nd.edu lagged behind. Continue reading “A Brand New Search Experience”
May 2014 Stats
Overall, there was not much change in browser percentages. The largest shift this month was the drop in traffic to m.nd.edu and the associated native apps. This can be attributed to the “newness” effect from last month as well as students leaving for the summer. Continue reading “May 2014 Stats”
April 2014 Stats
April saw the launch of launch of our new mobile app/site. The result being a jump in traffic to m.nd.edu and the native apps. Everything else was pretty flat from last month. Continue reading “April 2014 Stats”