September 2015 Meeting Notes

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 2015 - 2:00PM

UNLedu Stats and Analytics
  • UNL.edu traffic up 19.1% year-over-year
  • almost 2 million page views first week of school
  • + >10M page views past 12 months
  • pages per session up
  • session duration up
  • bounce rate down

No longer redirecting on-campus traffic to UNL Today; Homepage up ~55%; new Featured Content band with social content; peak days of use: Sat-Tues

Mobile growth continues: up 21% over the past year, 30% of traffic overall

Browser share history: IE declines, Chrome and Safari rise

Upgrading Our Supported Browsers

IE 7, 8, 9 represent, together, < 1.2% of all traffic, or a 9.2% share of all IE traffic. IE 10 is 1% of all traffic.

Going forward, we propose to support IE 10 and 11, and Edge.

Discuss: Title Attribute

Use only when it doesn't simply repeat the link content, and instead enhances it. Ask Michael to speak about this issue and how it relates to WebAudit at the next WDN meeting?

New timeline for UNLedu 4.1 release

User testing and focus groups in September, Testing in UNLcms around fall break, 4.1 launch after holiday break (January 5, 2016).

Breadcrumbs and associated navigation become more visually distinct from others than in the past.

Breadcrumbs has been removed on mobile end based on WDN feedback.

Search to be more easily accessible and not included in the hamburger icon on mobile end.

WDN Shared Governance Board update

College of Arts & Sciences reviewed

Meeting Recording

September 8th WDN Meeting