NDPC-SD Web Site
Annual Activity Summary for 2006
The NDPC-SD Web site continues to be hosted by Clemson University, on a Windows 2003 server maintained by the university’s Division of Computing and Information Technology (DCIT). As part of the services provided by the university, statistical information on Web site activities is collected and made available using LiveSTATS, a web-based application produced by Deepmetrix. In the May 2006, a new version of LiveSTATS was installed by DCIT, which made it possible to collect and report significantly more detailed information on visitor activities.
On September 1, 2006, the hosting location for the NDPC-SD Web site was moved from a sub-directory of the NDPC/N site to its own top-level directory. At the same time, a new primary URL—http://www.ndpc-sd.org—was introduced for the NDPC-SD site, and this new URL was advertised on outgoing correspondence. The NDPC-SD site is still reachable from the NDPC Portal page (http://www.dropoutprevention.org). To prevent the loss of visitors using URLs for the old site, forwarding rules were put in place to redirect all requests to the corresponding URL on the new site.
Presented below are summary data for Web visitor activity on the NDPC-SD site for the calendar year 2006.
Page Views
English Spanish
January 6,646 (est.) 1,782 (est.)
February 7,105 (est.) 1,905 (est.)
March 8,719 (est.) 2,338 (est.)
April 8,283 (est.) 2,221 (est.)
May 7,740 (est.) 2,075 (est.)
June 6,987 1,701
July 5,964 1,818
August 8,351 2,169
September 7,240 402
October 8,435 241
November 7,018 455
December 6,545 1,220
For January through May 2006, the number of page views is estimated. For June, July, and August, the two primary sites (NDPC/N and NDPC-SD) were still combined, and separate full-month page view counts were available for the English and Spanish NDPC-SD content. Over those three months, NDPC-SD English page views represented an average of 14.06% of the totals, and Spanish page views comprised an average of 3.77%. This average was used to estimate the share of total page views during January through May attributable to NDPC-SD content.
File and Media Downloads (NDPC-SD)
February 2,270 (est.)
March 2,252 (est.)
April 1,847 (est.)
May 2,023 (est.)
June 1,945 (est.)
July 2,075 (est.)
August 2,419 (est.)
September 2,012
October 2,931
November 3,944
December 4,133
For February through August 2006, the number of downloads is estimated. Separate numbers were not available for NDPC-SD versus NDPC/N downloads prior to September, so the total average share of page views (17.83%) is used as an estimate of the corresponding share of downloads.
Most Popular Downloads
1. Effective Interventions in Dropout Prevention: A Practice Brief for Educators, Volume 1, Number 1 (resources/docs/prctbrief.pdf). 2,095 total downloads.
2. BIG IDEAs, Volume 3, Issue 1, Winter 2006
(enews/docs/ enews/docs/BigIDEAs-2006-01.pdf). 1,464 total downloads.
3. Client Survey (feedback/docs/clientsurvey-060615.pdf). 1,397 total downloads.
4. Dropout Prevention for Students with Disabilities: Recommendations for Teachers (/assistance/docs/Recommendations_for_Teachers—20060920.pdf). 1,220 total downloads.
5. PowerPoint presentation: “Pathways to success: Making a difference through scientifically proven instructional practices & professional development” (practices/docs/ndpconf1.pdf). 1,716 total downloads.
6. A Few Steps to Better Data (assistance/docs/a_few_steps_to_better_data.pdf). 950 total downloads.
7. Dropout Prevention for Students with Disabilities: Recommendations for Administrators (/assistance/docs/Recommendations_for_Administrators—20060920.pdf). 871 total downloads.
8. PowerPoint Presentation: “Effective Strategies for Dropout Prevention” (resources/docs/seaforum2006/smink_cash--universal_strategies.pdf). 626 total downloads.
9. PowerPoint presentation: “Bringing Research and Practice Together: The Colca-Cola Valued Youth Program” (resources/docs/SEAForum2006/Cortez_Cortez--Coca-Cola_Valued_Youth.pdf). 554 total downloads.
10. PowerPoint Presentation: “Self-Determination as a Dropout Prevention Strategy” (resources/docs/self-det.pdf). 490 total downloads.
11. An Analysis of State Performance Plan Data for Indicator 2 (Dropout) (/assistance/docs/indicator_2--dropout.pdf). 479 total downloads.
12. An Analysis of State Performance Plan Data for Indicator 1 (Graduation) (/assistance/docs/indicator_1--graduation.pdf). 478 total downloads.
13. Narrative for presentation by Kathy Ruhl: “Promoting Academic Success via Classroom Structure” (resources/docs/ruhl-_pr.doc). 473 total downloads.
14. PowerPoint Presentation: “Improving Students’ Outcomes Through Transition-Focused Education” (resources/docs/seaforum2006/kohler_p--transition-focused_education_indicator13.pdf). 265 total downloads.
15. Key Points to “Effective Approaches to Increasing Graduation Rates for All Students” (econnections/docs/lehrkeypoints.pdf). 213 total downloads.