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February 2017

General Stats for Research.carleton.ca

Total hits to the research website: 3767 Sessions (7547 Page Views)

  • Sessions down 1% from previous period – Jan (3767 vs 3824)
  • Page views up 2% from previous period - Jan (7,547 vs 7,369)
  • Sessions down 10%from last year (3,767 vs 4,203)
    (Note: RW moved to stories)

Total views from Google: 934 (25% of total traffic)

  • Up slightly from last month (934 vs 930)
  • Up 4% from Feb. 2016 (934 vs. 885)

Top pages on the research website:

  1. Homepage
  2. Find a researcher
  3. Research Centres
  4. Our Research
  5. Research Works
    (Note: this seems pretty consistent month to month)

February Overview

8 news pieces published (hits: 440, 331, 52, 152, 44, 168, 74, 55)

5 stories published (3 end of Jan): (hits: 304, 559, 1983, 987, 480)

Top articles:

  1. Carleton Student Markets Twelve Barrels Whisky (Our Stories)

1983 hits, 352 from Google

  1. Brewing Better Business (Our Stories)
    987 hits, 32 from Google
  2. Arctic Greenhouse(Our Stories)
    559 hits, 24 from Google

Best SEO article:

Carleton Student Markets Twelve Barrels Whisky with 352 from Google
(Chris pointed out this was on Dragon’s Den - would help explain search traffic)

Research News for February (Newsroom)

Carleton Scores Big at Ontario Engineering Competition (Feb 3)

  1. How many hits?440
  2. Where did people come from?

carleton.ca / referral / 186
m.facebook.com / referral / 97
(direct) / (none) / 62
facebook.com / referral / 33
google / organic / 33
feedburner / feed / 9
research.carleton.ca / referral / 9

Carleton Professor Awarded $600,000 to Improve 5G Wireless Networks (Feb 15)

  1. How many hits? 331
  2. Where did people come from?

carleton.ca / referral / 105
(direct) / (none) / 55
facebook.com / referral / 33
m.facebook.com / referral / 33
feedburner / feed / 29
google / organic / 27
research.carleton.ca / referral / 14

Carleton to Launch 2017 FPA Research Month and Visions for Canada 2042 Conference (Feb 16)

  1. How many hits? 52
  2. Where did people come from?

carleton.ca / referral / 34
(direct) / (none) / 6
google / organic / 6
research.carleton.ca / referral / 4

Carleton Students Make Final Cut for Statistics Canada Infographic Award (Feb 21)

  1. How many hits? 152
  2. Where did people come from?

carleton.ca / referral / 69
t.co / referral / 37
google / organic / 16
(direct) / (none) / 13
research.carleton.ca / referral / 4

Carleton Students in Top 40 of Science, Action! Video Contest (Feb 21)

1.How many hits? 44

2.Where did people come from

carleton.ca / referral / 23
t.co / referral / 9
(direct) / (none) / 4
google / organic / 3
research.carleton.ca / referral / 3

National Survey Shows Canadians Care about Endangered Species—But There are Limits (Feb 23)

1.How many hits? 168

2.Where did people come from?

(direct) / (none) / 42
carleton.ca / referral / 33
feedburner / feed / 29
t.co / referral / 20
linkedin.com / referral / 15
google / organic / 7
FACETS / email / 6
research.carleton.ca / referral / 6

Carleton Researcher Determines Jurassic Park Approach is not Best Method of Conservation (Feb 27)

1.How many hits? 74

2.Where did people come from?

carleton.ca / referral / 39
(direct) / (none) / 12
google / organic / 12
vesti.ru / referral / 5
feedburner / feed / 3
cisionpoint.com / referral / 1
research.carleton.ca / referral / 1
t.co / referral / 1

Carleton Research Projects Worth $820,000 Receive CFI Funds (Feb. 28)

1.How many hits? 55

2.Where did people come from?

carleton.ca / referral / 42
(direct) / (none) / 8
research.carleton.ca / referral / 2
t.co / referral / 2
google / organic / 1

Research Stories for February (Our Stories)

Added Feb stats for the Fragile, Greenhouse and Whisky stories - published at end of Jan

Fragile and Failed States(Jan 26)

  1. How many hits? 304
  2. Where did people come from?

(direct) / (none) / 252 / 241
linkedin.com / referral / 20 / 19
t.co / referral / 14 / 9
google / organic / 9 / 9

Arctic Greenhouse (Jan 27)

  1. How many hits? 559
  2. Where did people come from?

(direct) / (none) / 476
google / organic / 24
linkedin.com / referral / 19
t.co / referral / 15
facebook.com / referral / 6

Carleton Student Markets Twelve Barrels Whisky(Jan. 30)

  1. How many hits? 1983
  2. Where did people come from?

(direct) / (none) / 1,112
google / organic / 352
m.facebook.com / referral / 210
linkedin.com / referral / 106
facebook.com / referral / 100
t.co / referral / 53

Brewing Better Business (Feb 8)

  1. How many hits? 987
  2. Where did people come from?

(direct) / (none) / 637 / 592
m.facebook.com / referral / 123 / 113
t.co / referral / 103 / 103
facebook.com / referral / 35 / 34
google / organic / 32 / 30
linkedin.com / referral / 30 / 28
l.facebook.com / referral / 11 / 11

Bringing 5G Wireless to Life (Feb 15)

  1. How many hits? 480
  2. Where did people come from?

(direct) / (none) / 379
m.facebook.com / referral / 48
google / organic / 18
t.co / referral / 14
facebook.com / referral / 12