The Society for Acute Medicine
Website Report : September 2015
Author : Nithin Narayan
Key Stats (Summary of Appendix 1)
· Since launch of the new site on 20th June 2014 there have been 55,690 visitors to the site. Of which 38,845 (69.8%) were unique visitors. Equating to approximately 3700 total visitors (2600 unique) per month.
· There peaks of visitors in November, May and July. These coincide with the TakeAIM campaign, SAMBristrol & SAM elections.
· Since the last conference…
o 17,585 visitors to the site, 11,625 (66.1%) were unique visitors.
o 82.4% of visitors were from the UK.
o 71.6% of visitors came through search engines, 19.8% accessed the site directly and 6.5% were referred from other sites. Only 2.2% of visitors accessed the site through social media.
o There was a 36.6% rise in number of visitors to the site when comparing July & August 2014 with July & August 2015 (6932 vs 9472)
o There have been 55,462 page views. Of which the homepage and pages for SAM conferences were the most popular.
o The SAM Elections page attracted 794 views. Of which 177 accessed the Members Only Voting platform and 57 submitted a vote for the Trainee Representative. Congratulations Sanjay!
Domain & Webhosting
Recently both Stephanie and the TakeAIM fellows have contacted me about masking their e-mail address to a @acutemedicine.org.uk address. The difficulty arises from how the @acutemedicine.org.uk addresses have been setup on the domain, which is as email forwards. Email forwards limit the possibility to mask the senders email. The solution would require either setting up webmail accounts on the domain, or utilising an email service such as Google Apps for Work. Both solutions would require me to have administrative control over the domain, which is still registered and controlled by Broxden. I can transfer the domain to my GoDaddy account for free. There may be a small additional cost to add the webmail accounts to the domain, however, I should be able to utilise free packages I have on my GoDaddy account. Alternatively, Google Apps for Work would cost about £6.60 per month. At present, Broxden are also providing the webhosting package for the site, last renewed in April 2015. Once the domain has been transferred I can look at transferring that too. To prevent any downtime for the website, I will need the administrative control of any transfers.
Nithin Narayan
Website Lead
September 2015
SAM Council Meeting 1 SAM Manchester