NAI Website: Statistics and Content Management

1. NAI Website: Statistics and Content Management Marco Boldt Sr. Web Developer and Collaborative Technology Specialist NASA Astrobiology Institute

2. NAI Website: Overview and Statistics NASA Astrobiology Institute

3. NAI Website: http://nai.nasa.gov • Website Goals • Communicate the nature, activities and accomplishments of the institute to members, public and astrobiology community • Serve members of the institute • Newsletter • Funding Opportunities • Events Calendar • Team websites, directory • Seminar Series Archive • Collaborative tools • Handbook • Educate and Inform the public NASA Astrobiology Institute

4. Web Statistics Capability Overview • The NASA Astrobiology Institute has at its disposal a set of tools that allow website traffic to be analyzed. With these tools, the following questions can be answered: • Who are our visitors, and how many of them are there? • How do our visitors reach our site? • Which pages of the site do our visitors view? NASA Astrobiology Institute

5. NAI website statistics • General • In top 10 of Ames websites in terms of traffic • #6 Google search result for “Astrobiology” (#5 Yahoo, #4 MSN) • 2006 web traffic (12 full months) • Average of 33,000 visits/month from 24,500 unique visitors (1100 visits/day) • Average of 126,000 web page views per month. • Average of 3.77 pages viewed per visit. • May 2007 web traffic • 46,067 visits from 29,322 unique visitors • 32% increase from May 2006 • 195,158 web pages viewed • 4.23 pages viewed per visit • 75.0 % of visitors to the NAI website connected using a direct address or bookmark (includes internal navigation, RSS); • 21.0 % connected to the site from a search engine; • 3.8 % connected to the site from another website. NASA Astrobiology Institute

6. Web Statistics May 2007 Page views • Feature Stories: 13,620 • Ask an Astrobiologist: 13,274 • Team Annual Reports: 10,429 • Home Page: 6,812 • Newsletter: 4,949 • Sent to 791 members • Sent to 978 subscribers • Seminar Series: 3,463 • Focus Groups: 1,664 • About NAI: 739 • For Teachers: 594 • Research Archive: 532 • Funding: 488 Web Page Ranking- Page Views NASA Astrobiology Institute

7. Website Statistics • Visitor Demographics (May 2007) • Overall: 74% US, 26% foreign visitors • 52.9% of traffic from US ".com" and ".net" • 8.8% of traffic from US ".us" (common with K-12 schools) • 4.5% of traffic from US Government (.gov) • 4.4% of traffic from US Educational (.edu) • 2.4% of traffic from US non profit (.org) • 1.4% of traffic from US Military (.mil) • 25.6 % International Visitor Demographics, May 2007 NASA Astrobiology Institute

8. Web Statistics • Other information available: • Keywords used to find website in search engines • Traffic by time period (by hour, day of week, day of month) • Traffic by search engine spiders (25 % of traffic- excluded from data analysis) • Operating System, Browser statistics • Duration of visit NASA Astrobiology Institute

9. Ask an Astrobiologist provides on-line answers to questions from the public 1,977 questions total (Since 2001) 965 answered questions Questions are not answered if similar questions have been answered in the archive, or they are not about astrobiology, or they are homework problems. 2006 Asked: 421, Answered: 162 2007 (to date) Asked: 522, Answered: 133 Ask an Astrobiologist: Statistics NASA Astrobiology Institute

10. Ask an Astrobiologist Page Views by Question Category Answered Questions by Question Category NASA Astrobiology Institute

11. NAI Website: Content Management NASA Astrobiology Institute

12. Content Management System (CMS) • NAI Central has developed a Content Management System (CMS) for efficiently managing website content • Key Features • Allows website content to be added, updated and maintained using a secure web interface. • Allows content owners to manage their own content which reduces bottlenecks and allows the web developer(s) to focus on other projects. • Because website content is stored in a database, the look, feel, and organization of the website can be changed without having to reprogram content. NASA Astrobiology Institute

13. Content Management System NAI Newsletter Page Content Management Interface NASA Astrobiology Institute

14. Annual Report Submission Website • Benefit to Teams: • Simplified data entry • Prefilled project data, team roster • Publications submitted in native format (Endnote) • Ability to review reports submitted by all team members before final submission • Benefit to NAI Central: • Time Savings • Finalized data is inserted directly into database, eliminating manual data entry NASA Astrobiology Institute

15. Backup Slides NASA Astrobiology Institute

16. Web Statistics Capability Overview Who are our Visitors? • Using web log analysis, visitors can be categorized as USA public (.com, .net domains), USA government (.gov) USA educational (.edu) USA non-profit (.org) and international. Knowing the proportion of visitors from these categories provides data useful in determining if the target audience of the website is being reached. • The list of visitors can be filtered to determine the number of visitors from a particular host or institution. The NAI has found this useful in determining the webpage usage of its members. The operating system, browser, and screen resolution of visitors is also collected. NASA Astrobiology Institute

17. Web Statistics Capability Overview How do visitors reach our site? • Using web log analysis, it can be determined how visitors reach the website. • Specifically, it can be determined whether visitors reached the site by • using an Internet search engine; • clicking on a link from an external website; or • typing in the website address directly or using a bookmark. Which pages of the site do our visitors view? • Detailed statistics on the webpages viewed by visitors are available. This allows the website owner to determine which sections of the website are relevant to visitors. NASA Astrobiology Institute

18. 2006 Traffic NASA Astrobiology Institute

19. Ames: 750 GSFC: 547 Berkeley: 209 IPTAI: 171 Penn State: 184 Carnegie: 159 UCLA: 143 Hawaii: 123 Colorado: 119 Arizona: 118 SETI: 72 MBL: 8 Member Site Page Views (May 2007) NASA Astrobiology Institute

20. Devote most energy to serving community NASA Astrobiology Institute