Since I’ve been on the Discover Magazine website for one year I thought I’d look at some patterns in Google Analytics. Specifically, over the interval from April 1st 2010 to April 30th 2011 (alas, I lost access to the ScienceBlogs traffic data). For example, what institutions are people coming to this website from? To do that I just filtered for “university” and “college” in Google Analytics. Below are those institutional addresses which sent 500 or more visits to this website over the year.
Institution
Visits
HARVARD UNIVERSITY
2568
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON
1973
STANFORD UNIVERSITY
1372
BEIHANG UNIVERSITY
1359
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY
1283
UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO
1188
OXFORD UNIVERSITY
1169
UNIVERSITY OF UTAH
1009
YALE UNIVERSITY
990
UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON
974
UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS
958
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA
936
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY
893
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN
879
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA
842
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES
841
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY
840
YORK UNIVERSITY
835
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO
805
UPPSALA UNIVERSITY
802
BOSTON UNIVERSITY
784
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SANTA BARBARA
784
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO
746
NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY
732
DUKE UNIVERSITY
724
UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE
723
UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI
710
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA DAVIS
700
UNIVERSITY SIEGEN CAMPUS NETWORK
670
CORNELL UNIVERSITY
669
UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA
665
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT BERKELEY
654
OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY
650
SMITH COLLEGE
637
BROWN UNIVERSITY
626
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS
614
UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND
611
UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL
589
THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY
583
WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY
552
WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY
532
SAINT JOHN S UNIVERSITY – COLLEGE OF SAINT BENEDICT
518
MCGILL UNIVERSITY
505
UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN ACADEMIC AFFAIRS
501
Now let’s look at visitor loyalty:
Visit that was the visitor’s nth visit
% of all visits
1 times
824746
62%
2 times
114278
9%
3 times
51544
4%
4 times
32629
2%
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