2007 WSU Boonshoft School
of Medicine Web Visitor Survey
This survey was conducted by
placing a cookie-generated, one-time pop-up window and a static message saying
"Please take our one-minute survey" on all pages on our site that use a School
of Medicine template [see: Appendix B]. Some 200 people submitted surveys between
September 28 and November 15, 2007. [The image above shows "hits" on the
survey page during the period covered.] A web statistics program, StatCounter.com, was
used to determine the operating systems and browsers used by the approximately
855 web visitors who viewed the survey [see: Appendix A].
You may download copies of the full reports in PDF format:
 All Respondents
Prospective Students Only
What follows are all responses to the
2007 survey.
How would you
describe yourself? (Please check all that apply)
Description: |
2007 |
2005 |
| Prospective
student |
34.5% |
46.3% |
| Prospective
resident |
11.5% |
5.0% |
| WSU staff |
8.0% |
5.7% |
| WSU medical
student |
6.5% |
10.0% |
| WSU faculty |
3.5% |
4.0% |
| SOM alumnus |
3.5% |
2.5% |
| WSU resident |
2.5% |
3.2% |
| Other (see list) |
31.5% |
23.4% |
How often have you visited the School of Medicine web site before today?
How often have you visited before? |
2007 |
2005 |
| Never |
28.0% |
43.3% |
| Rarely |
9.0% |
9.5% |
| Occasionally |
24.0% |
22.2% |
| Frequently |
18.5% |
16.0% |
| Very often |
14.0% |
9.0% |
| No answer |
6.5% |
NA |
What are you
looking for on this web site today?
Information
aboutÂ…
What are you
looking for on this web site today? (See: All related comments)
- Admissions/application
information: 39.5%
- Program/department
(please specify): 18.5%
- Residency/Fellowship
program information: 18.0%
- Information about
research at the School: 12.5%
- Events at the School:
9.0%
- Directions/maps/visitor
information: 4.5%
- Information about a
person at the School: 6.5%
- Health/Patient
information: 4.0%
- Other (please specify): 23.5%
Did you find what you are looking for?
Visit Length
The time between when
a visitor accesses the first web page on a web site until the time he or she
exits the last page visited on the site is called "Visit Length" by
StatCounter.com. This is a snapshot from one day in mid-November 2007 of
visits to our 10 top-level pages—the home page, Prospective Students,
Current Students, Faculty/Staff, Resident Physicians, Alumni, Directions,
Directory, Site Map and Search.
WSU School of Medicine Web Visitor Survey, Appendix A
Information collected
by StatCounter.com on 855 visitors who viewed the survey between September 28
and November 15, 2007. (Only 200 – 23 percent – went on to submit
a survey compared to 27 percent who did in 2005.)
Browser (IE =
74%)
Browser |
2007 Survey |
2005 Survey |
| Microsoft IE 7 |
32.0% |
NA |
| Microsoft IE 6 |
42.2% |
79.8% |
| Microsoft IE 4 or 5 |
0.0% |
6.2% |
| Netscape/Mozilla |
2.2% |
6.0% |
| Firefox |
16.4% |
5.0% |
| Safari |
7.1% |
3.0% |
Screen Resolution
(800 X 600 or unknown = 17%)
Resolution |
2007 Survey |
2005 Survey |
| 1600 X 1200 |
1.1% |
0.6% |
| 1280 X 1024 |
34.0% |
7.6% |
| 1152 X 864 |
3.6% |
2.9% |
| 1024 X 768 |
44.2% |
59.8% |
| 800 X 600 |
6.9% |
24.5% |
| 640 X 480 |
0.2% |
1.0% |
| Unknown |
9.9% |
3.5% |
Operating System
(Windows = 89.2%)
OS |
2007 Survey |
2005 Survey |
| Windows XP |
76.3% |
70.8% |
| Windows Vista |
6.3% |
NA |
| Windows 2000 |
4.4% |
13.3% |
| Windows Other |
2.2% |
9.1% |
| Mac OS X |
5.3% |
3.6% |
| Mac PPC/Other |
5.4% |
2.6% |
| Linux |
0.1% |
0.2% |
| Unknown |
|
0.3% |
WSU School of Medicine Web Visitor Survey, Appendix B
Sample page with the survey button.
Cookie-generated, one-time popup window request
The survey
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