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2007 WSU Boonshoft School of Medicine Web Visitor Survey

Hits on 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)

Visitor demographics

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%

Number of visits

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?

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?
  • Yes: 76.5%
  • No: 19.0%
arrowSee: What respondents couldn't find
arrowSee: What respondents liked most about the site
arrowSee: Suggestions for improvement
arrowSee: Other comments

Visit Length

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%)

browsers used

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%)

screen resolution

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%)

operating system

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.

sample web page with survey

Cookie-generated, one-time popup window request

Pop Up Box

The survey

Survey
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