Today’s goals:
– Understand how to measure website “traffic”
– Update your portfolios
0. Today’s featured website:
1. Hits, Page Views, and Unique Visitors
You will answer these questions both at the beginning and end of class:
a. What would you want to brag about more for your website- your number of hits, page views, or unique visitors? Show of hands!
Guesses:
Just write down some numbers- what do you think are the page views, unique visitors, and hits for the school webpage? Prize for closest guesses!
2. Let’s look at the school website’s stats
We’ll check out the numbers and discuss how hits, page views, and unique visitors are different.
3. Other web statistics platforms
Your web host will likely have its own internal measurement system. If not, there are other options like the following:
Google Analytics (free)
Quantcast (free)
Chartbeat (not free)
4. Top websites
What do you think are the top websites with the most visitors and page views? Why?
Let’s make a quick list before we look up some stats.
Check out the following site. Does anything surprise you? Enter a URL at the top right to see its ranking. Where does the Medford Public Schools website rank?
http://www.alexa.com/topsites/countries/US
5. Portfolio update
You have done great work and it’s time to let people know about it!
Please update your portfolio page with you most recent work.
To do:
a. Log into the class website here (username is first name)
https://www.mhswebdesign.com/mhs-webdesign-backend/
b. Click on your name and then click on My Portfolio from the link below
https://www.mhswebdesign.com/class-pages/
c. Add either a link to this page or grab your graphics and upload them to your page (or both) to show off what you’ve done for the Featured Harvest of the Month
http://www.medfordpublicschools.org/departments-programs/school-lunch/farm-to-school-program/
d. Post a link to your live webpage by going to the directory below and clicking on your name (post a link directly to your page, not the directory)