* news 2005 & 2006 *
 

2005 Website developments:

  • Guides researched and added
    1. Learning as student-athlete or student-performer
    2. Developing spreadsheets: Creating/developing budgets
    3. Writing under deadlines
    4. Organizing research with computers & avoiding plagiarism
    5. Evaluating algebraic expressions, Order of operations/ P.E.M.D.A.S.:
      a Flash exercise by Ingrid Noble at the University of Minnesota
    6. Basics of writing assignments was revised into four sections:
      preparation, drafting, revising, and proofreading
    7. Pre-reading
  • Volunteer translators added 223 pages to translations including Arabic (Iraq), Chinese (PRC), Greek (Greece), Indonesian (Germany), Hebrew (Israel), Persian (Iran), Portuguese (Brazil), Spanish (Argentina) and Vietnamese (Viet Nam)
  • More interactive Flash exercises to reinforce content
    Fall 2005 Dr. Brad Hokanson and his DHA Interactive Design Course at the University of Minnesota built many exercises in Flash that continue our annual project of adding interactivity and engagement with the material of the Guides. Look for additions in the months of 2006 to come!
  • Added Google Analytics to the set of statistical tools
    including learning to process SQL queries in databases. The last deciphered a half million records of daily Study Guides traffic.
  • First style sheet scripting
  • Presentations and mentoring at the Winter Institute for Learning Support Center professionals at the University of Texas at Austin in January 2005, and to the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina March 2005 to study design with a class from the University of Minnesota.

Summary of 2005 website statistics, or metrics

  • Traffic:
    § 8.96 million pages viewed; 53.8 million hits: increase of 51% over the year 2004 (6.1 million page views)
    § 21.75% of visits are returning learners 1.
    § 38.9% are direct requests for the website, 27.32% through a Google search,
    4.33% through Stumbleupon, 4.35% through Yahoo, 2.58% through MSN, 23% through “other.”
    4.35% of visitors are through Saigonbao.com, VietNam where we are featured under the category of Tuoi Tre (Cam Nang Hoc Tap)!     1.
  • English accounts for 68.2% of traffic on the website with 171 pages.
  • Google Search by keywords 3.
    § "Study" brings the Guides up third of 1,020,000,000 (billion!)
    § "Study + guides" second of 70,800,000 sites
    § "time management": third of 705,000,000 sites
    § "test anxiety": fifth of 12,500,000 sites
    § "ADHD": 111 out of 13,600,000; "ADHD + studying": first of 571,000 sites
    § "Mapas mentales" (Spanish) is often the second most popular search term for the website(including English!) and first of 430,000 sites
  • Links to the Study Guides website:
    19,000 websites link to the Guides in its database
    All search engines have differing databases of websites they draw from § 2,117 links are from institutions of higher education in the United States (.edu domain) § 18.27% of traffic is from .com domains
  • Browsers:
    Internet Explorer - 85%, Firefox - 12%, Safari - 1.5%, Opera - 1.2% 1.
  • Screen resolution:
    1024x768 - 55%, 800x600 - 27%, 1280x1024 - 7%, 1280x800 - 3%, 1152x864 - 3%, 1400x1050 - 1% 1. ·
  • Connection speed:
    cable/DSL - 64%, dialup - 15%, unknown - 14%, corporate - 7% 1.
  • Average viewing time:
    between 1.5 and 2 minutes (index pages only) 1.
  • Traffic by country/domain:
         Network .net, 26.30%; unresolved/unknown , 29.86%; commercial (.com) , 17.58%;
    Educational .edu, 2.72%; Canada .ca, 1.74%; Mexico .mx, 2.04%; United States .us, 1.76%;
    Viet Nam .vn, 1.68%; Morocco .ma, 1.29%; United Kingdom .uk, 1.39%;
    Non-Profit Organization .org, 0.92%; Australia .au, 0.78%; Peru .pe, 0.79%; Germany .de, 0.51%;
    Italy .it , 0.54%; Israel .il, 0.40%; Malaysia .my, 0.32%; Indonesia .id, 0.29%; Turkey .tu, 0.33%;
    Brazil .br, 0.29%; US Military .mil, 0.40%; Netherlands .nl, 0.34%; France .fr, 0.32%;
    Singapore .sg, 0.42%; India .in, 0.31%; Saudi Arabia .sa, 0.72%; Russian Federation .ru, 0.22%;
    Argentina .ar, 0.24%; Poland .pl , 0.19%; Belgium .be, 0.21% 2.
  • Traffic by 30 language folders (one day, December 1, 2005--see website for details),
    often reflects number of translations and/or when translated/introduced:
    English, 68.2%; Spanish, 10.6%; Vietnamese, 3.8%; Arabic, 3.2%; Chinese, 2.8%; Indonesian, 1.7%; Hebrew, 1.5%; French, 1.4%; German, 1.0%; Portuguese, 0.8%; Russian, 0.8%; Korean, 0.7%; Italian, 0.6%; Turkish, 0.5%; Swedish, 0.3%; Amharic, 0.3%; Czech, 0.3%; Croatian, 0.3%; Persian, 0.2%; Japanese, 0.2%; Ewe, 0.2%; Luganda, 0.2%; Roumanian, 0.2%; Danish, 0.2%; Kiswahili, 0.1%; Melayu Manado, 0.1%; Hindi, 0.1%; Tamil, 0.1%; Kabiye 0.1%; Greek. 2.

Sources:

  1. Google Analytics
    (only reflects traffic to index pages, all languages)
  2. Webalizer (December 2005)
  3. GOOGLE Search (December 28, 2005)
  4. AltaVista (December 28, 2005)
Website/
overall

Annual traffic and percentage increase

Year

 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005
Page views 107,114 190,050 518,550 1,224,433 1,942,479 2,884,739 4,984,983 6,128,170 8,300,907
Increase 77.4% 172.8% 136.1% 58.6% 48.5% 72.8% 22.9% 35.4%

Annual traffic 2004 2.

Annual traffic 2005 2.
Total Guides/Pages Site traffic: page views Total Guides/Pages Site traffic: page views

678

 6,128,170

903 (33% ­)

8,300,907 (35.4% ­)

Analysis by language folders Daily snapshot: October 18, 2005
Site traffic: 31,402 page views

Analysis by language folders Daily snapshot: December 1, 2005
Site traffic: 31,398page views

Pages
viewed		 Day's
Site traffic		 % of
total		 Popular Guides Page
views		 Pages
viewed		 Day's
Site traffic		 % of
total		 Popular Guides Page
views
English
introduced 1996		 171 23,803 77.3% Index/home 2446 178 21,043 68.2% Index/home 1222
Time management/scheduling 1996 Time management/scheduling 1680
Concentration 1085 Mapping 742
Thinking like a genius 857 Math problems 857
Research writing 637
Citing websites 611
According to the latest statistics, English accounts for 68.2% of traffic on the website with 171 pages.
The following Guides were researched, developed and added in 2005:
  1. Learning as student-athlete or student-performer
  2. Developing spreadsheets: Creating/developing budgets
  3. Writing under deadlines
  4. Organizing research with computers & avoiding plagiarism
  5. Evaluating algebraic expressions, Order of operations/ P.E.M.D.A.S.:
    a Flash exercise by Ingrid Noble at the University of Minnesota
  6. Basics of writing assignments was revised into four sections:
    preparation, drafting, revising, and proofreading
  7. Pre-reading

Interactive exercises (Flash)
Fall 2005 Dr. Brad Hokanson and his DHA Interactive Design Course at the University of Minnesota built many exercises in Flash that continue our annual project of adding interactivity and engagement with the material of the Guides. Look for additions in the months of 2006 to come!

October 18, 2005

December 1, 2005

Pages
viewed		 Day's
Site traffic		 % of
total site traffic		 Popular Guides Page
views		 Pages
viewed		 Day's
Site traffic		 % of
total site traffic		 Popular Guides Page
views
Spanish
introduced 2002		 83 2,833 9.2% Concept mapping 640 88 3256 10.6% Index/home 761
Index/home 498 Concept mapping 416
Time management/scheduling 170 Bibliography/study skills 109
Bibliography on writing 132 learning to learn 72
Expository essays 59 Motivation 65
Concentration 57 Concentration 63
Scientific method 54 Problem solving 57
From Argentina, Max Ardohain contributed nine translations and Marisa D'Alessandro joined our team with two!

Spanish is second in traffic after English with 10.6% of traffic with 88 pages/Guides;
Mexico accounts for 5% of traffic to the website and Peru 1%.

October 18, 2005

December 1, 2005
Pages
viewed		 Day's
Site traffic		 % of
total site traffic		 Popular Guides Page
views		 Pages
viewed		 Day's
Site traffic		 % of
total site traffic		 Popular Guides Page
views
Vietnamese
introduced summer 2005		 91 890 2.9% Index/home 250 91 1175 3.8% Index/home 286
Time management/scheduling 64 Time management/scheduling 43
Learning to learn 26 Learning to learn 37
Study skills internet bibliography 21 Study skills internet bibliography 24
Thinking like a genius 23
Writing research papers 23
Summer 2005 91 translations were added in the Vietnamese language with under a grant from the U.S.-Indochina Educational Foundation under the direction of Dr. Mark A. Ashwill. Translators include Nguyễn Thanh Hương, Đào Tú Anh (Hà Nội) và Trần Hà Hải (Thành Phố Hồ Chí Minh). This section rapidly rose to the third position, 3.2% of traffic, after Spanish in terms of traffic and has the most translations!

October 18, 2005

December 1, 2005
Arabic
introduced 1998		 58 505 1.6% Index/home 124 66 989 3.2% Index/home 240
Concept mapping 22 Learning to learn 30
Thinking like a genius 18 Research 30
Time management/scheduling 16 Time management/scheduling 57
Reading speed & comprehension 16 Writing basics 27
Mazin Aws joined our team from Iraq with his first translation. Welcome!

October 18, 2005

December 1, 2005
Chinese
introduced 1998		 42 316 1.0% Index/home 160 47 861 2.8% Index/home 276
Effective study skills 18 Time management/scheduling 48
Learning to learn 13 Learning to learn 38
Time management/scheduling 11 Effective study skills 34
Murder study method 23

Yu Jin (余今 译) contributed three translations from the People's Republic of China.

October 18, 2005

December 1, 2005
Indonesian
introduced 2000		 35 344 1.1% Index/home 83 35 533 1.7% Index/home 83
Learning to learn 31 Learning to learn 35
Self motivation 23 Self motivation 24
Managing stress 17 Managing stress 21
Problem solving 21
Margaretha Liwoso contributed eleven translations and successfully past her Ph.D. exams at the University in Manado. Congratulations!

October 18, 2005

December 1, 2005
Hebrew
introduced summer 2005		 81 197 0.6% Index/home 47 91 473 1.5% Index/home 113
Time management/scheduling 14 Time management/scheduling 12
Concept mapping 5 Concentration 13
Visual learner 4 Visual learner 10
Organizing for test taking 4 Organizing for test taking 8
Test preparation 8
Monica Valk of Israel has translated over 81 pages in the Hebrew section this year!
We will be promoting the Hebrew section for learners in the next few months, though it is currently running at 1.5%.

October 18, 2005

December 1, 2005
French
introduced 1998		 52 251 0.8% Index/home 30 52 429 1.4% Index/home 91
Active listening 17 Active listening 23
Note taking 14 Note taking 24
Time management/scheduling 20 Time management/scheduling 23
Concentration 10 Stress 16

October 18, 2005

December 1, 2005
German
introduced 1998		 38 164 0.5% Index/home 36 41 304 1.0% Index/home 75
Ten tips for test taking 10 Learning to learn 16
Learning to learn 9 Time management/scheduling 13
Managing stress 7 Ten tips for test taking 12
Concentration 7 Managing stress 10
Test anxiety

Reading

 11

11

October 18, 2005

December 1, 2005
Portuguese
introduced 2001		 22 224 0.7% portuges/motivacao.htm 50 23 241 0.8% portuges/motivacao.htm 31
Index/home 41 Index/home 48
Managing stress 19 Time management/scheduling 21
Public speaking 16 Learning to learn 16
Cooperative learning 15
Rogerio Carvalho, Bahia, Brazil, contributed 5 translations in Portuguese

October 18, 2005

December 1, 2005
Russian
introduced 1999		 62 164 0.5% Index/home 25 67 250 0.8% Index/home 64
ADHD 5 Time management/scheduling 11
Organizing for test taking 4 Learning to learn 7
Ten tips for test taking 4 Motivation: project description 4
Time management/scheduling 4 Group projects 4
Learning to learn 4
Group projects 4
Marina Khonina, Uzbekistan, contributed five translations that enabled our interactive Guide on time management/scheduling

October 18, 2005

December 1, 2005
Korean
introduced 2002		 73 309 1.0% Index/home 43 63 225 0.7% Index/home 43
Time management/scheduling 11 ADHD 29
Critical reading 9 Time management/scheduling 13
Learning as an adult 8 Bibliography/study skills 9
Learning to learn 5
Problem solving 5

October 18, 2005

December 1, 2005
Turkish
introduced 2000		 15 140 0.5% Index/home 27 16 148 0.5% Index/home 48
Time management/scheduling 36 Time management/scheduling 25
Time management/scheduling 11 Concentration 8
Learning to learn 10 Thinking like a genius 8

October 18, 2005

December 1, 2005
Italian
introduced 1998		 19 128 0.4% Index/home 43 23 177 0.6% Index/home 52
Self motivation 14 Self motivation 15
Time management/scheduling 7 Problem based learning 16
Conflict resolution 14
Stress 12

October 18, 2005

December 1, 2005
Swedish
introduced 2004		 9 86 0.3% Index/home 32 10 94 0.3% Index/home 49
Managing stress 16 Managing stress 14
Learning to learn 7 Learning to learn

Motivation

 6

5
Time management/scheduling 11 Time management/scheduling 11

October 18, 2005

December 1, 2005

Amharic
introduced 2000

 5 66 0.2% amharic/amharicv4.pdf

66

 5 88 0.3% amharic/amharicv4.pdf

88

October 18, 2005

December 1, 2005
Czech
introduced 2002		 10 63 0.2% Index/home 27 13 114 0.3% Index/home 65
Expository essays 6 Expository essays 8
Managing stress 3 Memorization

Learning to learn

 5

5
Memorization 3 Memorization 3
Thinking like a genius 4 Murder study method 5

October 18, 2005

December 1, 2005
Persian
introduced 2005		 2 65 0.2% Index/home 57
Learning to learn 8

Ahmad Azizi (Iran) began translations into Persian

October 18, 2005

December 1, 2005
Japanese
introduced 2004		 2 62 0.2% Index/home 57 2 71 0.2% Index/home 52
Learning to learn 5 Learning to learn 5

October 18, 2005

December 1, 2005
Croatian
introduced 2000		 7 49 0.2% Index/home 25 8 83 0.3% Index/home 41
Time management/scheduling 9 Time management/scheduling 10
Learning to learn 5 Learning to learn 8
Effective study habits 4 Effective study habits 6

October 18, 2005

December 1, 2005
Luganda
introduced 1999
 14 43 0.1% Index/home 10 20 48 0.2% Index/home 20
Thinking like a genius 4 Learning to learn 3
Time management/scheduling 6 Memorizing 3
Organizing projects 3

October 18, 2005

December 1, 2005
Danish
introduced 2001		 4 27 0.1% Index/home 19