An error was found in the Fall 2010 enrollment Registration Status. Due to an logical error in the loading of the University's Data Warehouse table, 552 students were counted as Re-admit when in reality they were Continuing. The data on our Enrollment Reports and the Data Ware house ps_dwsa_stix_1109_pr table will be corrected in the near future.
March 28, 2011
March 9, 2011
Site Usage - Month of February
February is the shortest month, but it set the new high water mark for monthly visits and page views. The reasons behind this seems to be the promoting of the SERU survey reports and publications and the NSSE Survey email reminder containing a link back to our site.
Visitors
We had 2,472 visits from 1,520 unique visitors during the month. Of these visitors, 10,261 pages were viewed, an average of 4.2 per visit. The average visitor spent 5 minutes on the site. The most visitors in one day, 286, occurred on February 10th, which was the day the NSSE survey email was distributed. The most page views, 794, occurred on Feb 9th, during which our SERU reports were linked in a High Ed email list. It's interesting to note that although the NSSE email resulted in a much larger raw number of visits, any link to the SERU survey report resulted in a higher quality visit. Meaning the user actually viewed more than just the page they were linked to and did not immediatly exit the site.
This month we received a visit from every Big Ten University campus network, including the newest member University of Nebraska, Lincoln, besides Northwestern University. In general, the majority of our visits come from the U of M system, the majority of the non-UMN traffic is from other University campuses throughout the nation, and occasionally internationally.
Content
42.% of users who visited the home page ended up looking some sort of Student data. As has been the theme, the biggest changes for content this month has been the survey data, of which the NSSE page and the SERU page and reports had a large gain in views.
The mosted viewed SERU Survey item was the Sense of Belonging question, which a student notes their sense of belonging at the U of M campus.
Miscellanea: Exit% measures when a vistor "leaves" the site. The NSSE and College Portrait page have over 75% of visitors leave the site after viewing the page, while the Enrollment page only has 6% of visitor leave. This is most likely due to the nature of the pages, but interesting nonetheless.
Traffic Sources
This month the traffic split was 56% direct / 23% site referral / 21% search engines. The increase in direct traffic is a red herring as unfortunately the tracking software did not correctly count clicks from emailed links in as a referral. The same can be said for the increase in referral, as a user needs to exit the page to authenticate, which is required for the SERU reports, and then re-enter, so that is counted as a referral.
Top Referring Site
Wikipedia and the U of M Library site were again the big winners when it comes to referral.
Visitors
We had 2,472 visits from 1,520 unique visitors during the month. Of these visitors, 10,261 pages were viewed, an average of 4.2 per visit. The average visitor spent 5 minutes on the site. The most visitors in one day, 286, occurred on February 10th, which was the day the NSSE survey email was distributed. The most page views, 794, occurred on Feb 9th, during which our SERU reports were linked in a High Ed email list. It's interesting to note that although the NSSE email resulted in a much larger raw number of visits, any link to the SERU survey report resulted in a higher quality visit. Meaning the user actually viewed more than just the page they were linked to and did not immediatly exit the site.
This month we received a visit from every Big Ten University campus network, including the newest member University of Nebraska, Lincoln, besides Northwestern University. In general, the majority of our visits come from the U of M system, the majority of the non-UMN traffic is from other University campuses throughout the nation, and occasionally internationally.
Content
42.% of users who visited the home page ended up looking some sort of Student data. As has been the theme, the biggest changes for content this month has been the survey data, of which the NSSE page and the SERU page and reports had a large gain in views.
The mosted viewed SERU Survey item was the Sense of Belonging question, which a student notes their sense of belonging at the U of M campus.
Miscellanea: Exit% measures when a vistor "leaves" the site. The NSSE and College Portrait page have over 75% of visitors leave the site after viewing the page, while the Enrollment page only has 6% of visitor leave. This is most likely due to the nature of the pages, but interesting nonetheless.
Traffic Sources
This month the traffic split was 56% direct / 23% site referral / 21% search engines. The increase in direct traffic is a red herring as unfortunately the tracking software did not correctly count clicks from emailed links in as a referral. The same can be said for the increase in referral, as a user needs to exit the page to authenticate, which is required for the SERU reports, and then re-enter, so that is counted as a referral.
Top Referring Site
Wikipedia and the U of M Library site were again the big winners when it comes to referral.
February 18, 2011
Released: Survey and Staff page enhancements
In an effort to continuous improve the layout and data available on our site, we have released an updated version of our staff page and our surveys page. Besides our homepage, these are the two most viewed non-report pages on the site. We thought it was in our interest to improve the aesthetic on these pages, as well as improve content of the page.
Survey page
This site now has navigation on the left-hand side of the page. We also created a separate page for each survey listed, and added more descriptive information about the survey and what we as a department and the University as a whole do with the data collected from the survey.
Staff page
Each staff members job title and responsibilities, areas of expertise and other pertinent career information have been added to this page.
Survey page
This site now has navigation on the left-hand side of the page. We also created a separate page for each survey listed, and added more descriptive information about the survey and what we as a department and the University as a whole do with the data collected from the survey.
Staff page
Each staff members job title and responsibilities, areas of expertise and other pertinent career information have been added to this page.
February 10, 2011
Official Enrollment Statistics: Spring 2011 Released
The Spring 2011 Official Enrollment Statistics data has been loaded. The University of Minnesota system-wide total enrollment for all academic levels is 64,964. For each University of Minnesota Campus: Twin Cities - 50,067, Duluth - 11,054, Crookston - 1,998, Morris - 1,702, Rochester - 143. Visit the Official Enrollment Statistics page for more details.
February 4, 2011
Released: 2010 SERU Results
The Office of Institutional Research is releasing a series of reports based upon the results of the Student Experience in the Research University (SERU) survey from Spring of 2010. The SERU survey is administered by the Center for Studies in Higher Education at the University of California Berkeley. More information about the SERU can be found at: http://cshe.berkeley.edu/research/seru/.
The SERU Consortium was formed in 2008 and currently includes sixteen major US public research universities, including all nine undergraduate campuses of the University of California system, along with seven other Association of American Universities (AAU) institutions: the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Rutgers University, the University of Florida, University of Pittsburgh, University of Oregon, and the University of Texas at Austin.
The survey results are intended to be used broadly for many different purposes, but primarily for use in program reviews, student experience analysis and other policy decisions here at the University.
Summary level data will be available to all students who have enrolled from Spring 2010 to Spring 2011, current Staff and Faculty at the University of Minnesota.
The Office of Undergraduate Education was vital in the University's participation in the SERU Consortium as well as returning the results of this survey to the student body, whom are the real owner's of this data.
http://www.oir.umn.edu/surveys
The SERU Consortium was formed in 2008 and currently includes sixteen major US public research universities, including all nine undergraduate campuses of the University of California system, along with seven other Association of American Universities (AAU) institutions: the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Rutgers University, the University of Florida, University of Pittsburgh, University of Oregon, and the University of Texas at Austin.
The survey results are intended to be used broadly for many different purposes, but primarily for use in program reviews, student experience analysis and other policy decisions here at the University.
Summary level data will be available to all students who have enrolled from Spring 2010 to Spring 2011, current Staff and Faculty at the University of Minnesota.
The Office of Undergraduate Education was vital in the University's participation in the SERU Consortium as well as returning the results of this survey to the student body, whom are the real owner's of this data.
http://www.oir.umn.edu/surveys
February 3, 2011
Site Usage - Month of January
January marked our highest site traffic month since we have released, a lot of this was due to increased traffic to our publications and surveys page.
Visitors
We had 2,226 visits from 1,184 unique visitors during the month. Of these visitors, 8,929 pages were viewed, an average of 4.01 per visit. The average visitor spent 5 minutes on the site. The most visitors in one day (132) occurred on Tuesday, Jan 25th, however, the most page views (684) occurred on Wed, Jan 26th. We received visitors from 45 cities in Minnesota. In order of visits: Minneapolis, St Paul, Duluth, Circle Pines, Crookston and Rochester. 5 of those 6 cities contain a U of M campus.
Visitors by Browser: 48%, Firefox / 38%, Internet Explorer / 6.5%, Safari, 5.8% Chrome
Number of Visits by State: 1,709, Minnesota / 61, Illinois / 35, California/ 27 Nebraska
42 users visited the site via a mobile device (iPad, Cell Phone, etc).
Content
32.6% of users who visited the home page ended up looking some sort of Student data. The biggest gain came for the HR Employee Count page, which accounted for 6.7% of clicks on the home page.
Most Viewed Enrollment Reports: 18.6%, Academic Level / 7.6% Race/Ethnicity
Most Viewed Freshman Characteristics Report: 11%, ACT Composite / 9% Home Location
Miscellanea: 392 visitors viewed at least five pages. Besides the Home Page, the College Portrait page received the most direct landing visits, meaning the visitor did not click another link on our site to get to that page.
Traffic Sources
This month the traffic split was 52.5% direct / 15% site referral / 32% search engines.
Top Referring Site
en.wikipedia.org
lib.umn.edu
Visitors
We had 2,226 visits from 1,184 unique visitors during the month. Of these visitors, 8,929 pages were viewed, an average of 4.01 per visit. The average visitor spent 5 minutes on the site. The most visitors in one day (132) occurred on Tuesday, Jan 25th, however, the most page views (684) occurred on Wed, Jan 26th. We received visitors from 45 cities in Minnesota. In order of visits: Minneapolis, St Paul, Duluth, Circle Pines, Crookston and Rochester. 5 of those 6 cities contain a U of M campus.
Visitors by Browser: 48%, Firefox / 38%, Internet Explorer / 6.5%, Safari, 5.8% Chrome
Number of Visits by State: 1,709, Minnesota / 61, Illinois / 35, California/ 27 Nebraska
42 users visited the site via a mobile device (iPad, Cell Phone, etc).
Content
32.6% of users who visited the home page ended up looking some sort of Student data. The biggest gain came for the HR Employee Count page, which accounted for 6.7% of clicks on the home page.
Most Viewed Enrollment Reports: 18.6%, Academic Level / 7.6% Race/Ethnicity
Most Viewed Freshman Characteristics Report: 11%, ACT Composite / 9% Home Location
Miscellanea: 392 visitors viewed at least five pages. Besides the Home Page, the College Portrait page received the most direct landing visits, meaning the visitor did not click another link on our site to get to that page.
Traffic Sources
This month the traffic split was 52.5% direct / 15% site referral / 32% search engines.
Top Referring Site
en.wikipedia.org
lib.umn.edu
January 3, 2011
Site Usage - December and 2010 Review
This marks the end of December, and of 2010. Our re-built site has now been live for four months. December marked the first month we have started tracking file downloads. Usage was down because of the University-wide furlough and holiday vacation.
Visitors
We had 1,771 visits from 964 unique visitors during the month. Of these visitors, 7,865 pages were viewed, an average of 4.4 per visit. The average visitor spent 5 minutes and 31 seconds on the site. The most visitors in one day (118) occurred on Tues, Dec 7th, however, the most page views (695) occurred on Mon, Dec 13th. Visitors came from 43 of the 50 states and the district of Columbia. After Minnesota, the most visits came from Illinois, Texas, Wisconsin, Michigan and California.
Visitors by Browser: 52%, Firefox / 36%, Internet Explorer / 6%, Safari, 6% Chrome
25 users visited the site via a mobile device (Android, iPhone, etc).
Content
40% of users who visited the home page ended up looking some sort of Student data, 20% at the Official Enrollment Statistics.
Most Viewed Enrollment Reports: 18.1%, Academic Level. The new "View All" report for one term received 6% of the reporting traffic.
Most Viewed Freshman Characteristics Report: 12.4%, ACT Composite / 12.4% High School Rank
Most Downloaded Files: Fall 2009 Retention Report, 2010 Employee and Student Headcounts by Department, 2009-10 Common Data Set.
Miscellanea: The newly released Student Aid Profile and Human Resource Count Data received 115 and 114 views respectively.
Traffic Sources
In November, the traffic split was 59% direct / 21% site referral / 19% search engines. This month
Top Search Terms (Search Engine(Total Vists): # of visits, search term)
UMN Search (272): 65, institutional research, 39, NSSE, 35, Metrics
Google (156):35, huesman stebleton immigrant, 9, institutional research
Top Referring Site (Non-UMN)
en.wikipedia.org: 60 visits
2010 Summary
From Sept 15th-Dec 31st we received 6,500+ visits from over 3,200 unique visitors. The heaviest traffic came on October 18th, when we released the 2010 Official Enrollment Statistics. We received just under 30,000 page views.
Staff, faculty and students from more than 200 Universities and Colleges around the world visited the site.
Student data accounted for more than 1 out of every 2 page views.
We received visits from 53 countries, including Japan, China, and France. In the United States, we received visitors from every state in the union except Wyoming.
Visitors
We had 1,771 visits from 964 unique visitors during the month. Of these visitors, 7,865 pages were viewed, an average of 4.4 per visit. The average visitor spent 5 minutes and 31 seconds on the site. The most visitors in one day (118) occurred on Tues, Dec 7th, however, the most page views (695) occurred on Mon, Dec 13th. Visitors came from 43 of the 50 states and the district of Columbia. After Minnesota, the most visits came from Illinois, Texas, Wisconsin, Michigan and California.
Visitors by Browser: 52%, Firefox / 36%, Internet Explorer / 6%, Safari, 6% Chrome
25 users visited the site via a mobile device (Android, iPhone, etc).
Content
40% of users who visited the home page ended up looking some sort of Student data, 20% at the Official Enrollment Statistics.
Most Viewed Enrollment Reports: 18.1%, Academic Level. The new "View All" report for one term received 6% of the reporting traffic.
Most Viewed Freshman Characteristics Report: 12.4%, ACT Composite / 12.4% High School Rank
Most Downloaded Files: Fall 2009 Retention Report, 2010 Employee and Student Headcounts by Department, 2009-10 Common Data Set.
Miscellanea: The newly released Student Aid Profile and Human Resource Count Data received 115 and 114 views respectively.
Traffic Sources
In November, the traffic split was 59% direct / 21% site referral / 19% search engines. This month
Top Search Terms (Search Engine(Total Vists): # of visits, search term)
UMN Search (272): 65, institutional research, 39, NSSE, 35, Metrics
Google (156):35, huesman stebleton immigrant, 9, institutional research
Top Referring Site (Non-UMN)
en.wikipedia.org: 60 visits
2010 Summary
From Sept 15th-Dec 31st we received 6,500+ visits from over 3,200 unique visitors. The heaviest traffic came on October 18th, when we released the 2010 Official Enrollment Statistics. We received just under 30,000 page views.
Staff, faculty and students from more than 200 Universities and Colleges around the world visited the site.
Student data accounted for more than 1 out of every 2 page views.
We received visits from 53 countries, including Japan, China, and France. In the United States, we received visitors from every state in the union except Wyoming.
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