getting used

I just ran a Google Analytics report matching up the first week of the term last year to this year & did a comparison.  Nothing earth-shattering, but still some pretty interesting stats... it's showing an overall increase of about 16% more visits to our system.

Dial-up is even more dead than ever (of course). It looks like Windows may have actually taken a loss in marketshare among our users over the last year.  Also, in the last year, Apple mobile devices are now a (very very small) factor - they're the #4 most popular platform after Linux.  PS3 and Wii also make a tiny appearance (though I've already talked about these last 3 back in January).

Bear in mind that the tracker that Analytics is using is only in the top frameset, so these metrics are blind to everything that actually happens in terms of usage down in the content frame.

You can check out a broad-overview copy of the report here.