Using Google Analytics to compare 9/10/07 - 12/10/07 against 9/15/08 - 12/15/08:
- Visits are up over 13%
- Pageviews are up over 48%
Looking over these and other numbers, it seems clear that web use with the new design is much increased over last year. I'm a little disappointed that it's only up that much, but a huge number of our visits are because many district computers are set to have the district home page as their home page...I figure that it's not possible to turn these incidental one-hit visits into multi-hit visits.
Since we've added more at the district level, I also checked to make sure that we haven't just lowered the number of hits that our other pages get. Our CMS stats fluctuate wildly, but averaged over the fall semester they are basically flat with last year.