Summary
The website is running smoothly and consistently, and we are seeing 25% growth in visits since a year ago. ÌýAÌýhandful of bug fixes and minor feature enhancements have been incorporated in recent months.
The Online Committee recommends Matthieu Bloch, Assistant Professor at Georgia-Tech Lorraine, for consideration as the next Online Editor. Although Nick Laneman, the current Online Editor, plans to step down, he will continue to serve on the Online Committee and in a supporting role during the transition.
The Online Committee expects to operate close to its annual $10K budget for 2010 and 2011. If the Society anticipates a surplus for 2010 without too many other demands, the Online Committee has additional features that could be developed to continue enhancing Conferences, Lectures, Collaboration, and Email Integration.
Analytics
The last 6 months of web traffic show over 300 visits / day with 57.21% from search engines, 24.23% from direct traffic, and 18.56% from referring sites.ÌýThe table below compares various analytics between the six-month periods of 03/01/2009-08/31/2009 and 03/01/2010-08/31/2010.
| Statistic | Current | Previous | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Visits | 58,468Ìý | 46,909 | +24.64% |
| Pageviews | 201,728 | 201,611 | +0.06% |
| Pages/Visit | 3.45 | 4.30 | -19.72% |
| Bounce Rate | 51.51% | 48.57% | +6.05% |
| Avg. Time | 3:06 | 3:32 | -12.05% |
| New Visits | 41.9% | 50.61% | -17.21% |
All of the above statistics may be self explanatory except for bounce rate , which is the percentage of single-page visits. ÌýThe growth in visits overall is encouraging; other number suggest that the community has grown a bit more accustomed to the site over time.
Of 160 countries represented in the past six months, the top 20 countries in terms of visits are summarized in the following table.
| Country | Current | Previous | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| USA | 25,364 | 19,618 | +29.29% |
| Canada | 3,333 | 2,050 | +62.59% |
| China | 2,752 | 2,268 | +21.34% |
| India | 2,345 | 2,272 | +3.21% |
| Iran | 2,148 | 985 | +118.07% |
| Germany | 1,840 | 1,496 | +22.99% |
| France | 1,742 | 1,300 | +34.00% |
| Japan | Ìý1,712 | 1,629 | +5.10% |
| South Korea | 1,553 | 1,444 | +7.55% |
| Israel | 1,231 | 780 | +57.82% |
| UK | 1,067 | 1,010 | +5.64% |
| Turkey | 995 | 426 | +133.57% |
| Taiwan | 914 | 759 | +20.42% |
| Switzerland | 854 | 781 | +9.35% |
| Greece | 846 | 1,282 | -34.01% |
| Sweden | 758 | 377 | +101.06% |
| Australia | 728 | 670 | +8.66% |
| Italy | 665 | 618 | +7.61% |
| Spain | 608 | 503 | +20.87% |
| Russia | 560 | 448 | +25.00% |
Software Development
Feedback from the BoG in the previous meetings suggested that we flesh out features to increase the visibility of media resources accumulated over the years and foster the creation of new content that extends that of the Newsletter. The Online Committee has pushed the development of three features:ÌýLecture objects, LaTeX support and integrated Conference websites.
Lectures
- The lecture is linked back to the speaker's profile on itsoc.org (see for instanceÌý Jack Wolf's profile )
- The lecture object encapsulates slides, and can be linked to a video stored elsewhere (presently, most videos are stored on media.itsoc.org)