Google Analytics and University of Southampton Blackboard service

Google Analytics (GA) is turned on within a number of MLE sites including Blackboard and Panopto. In the interest of openness we will share a number of pieces of analytical data with the community. Note that some data is from a smaller sample size and may not reflect 100% of users.

For Blackboard these stats are:

  1. Unique Visitors / Page Views
  2. Users per hour of day heat map
  3. Engagement
  4. Browsers
  5. Computer, Mobile, or Tablet?
  6. Operating System
  7. Location (Country)
  8. Top 10 Screen Resolutions
  9. Average Page Load Time

 

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This report is based on 59.66% of sessions.

 

Unique Visitors / Page Views

AY 2013/14 Pageviews Unique Visitors AY 2014/15 Pageviews Unique Visitors AY 2015/16 Pageviews Unique Visitors
Aug-14 798,910 33,157 Aug-15 908,2210 34,381 Aug-16 1,118,715 39,938
Sep-14 1,417,112 55,617 Sep-15 1,869,793 68,374 Sep-16 1,360,189 54,542
Oct-14 5,147,720 134,668 Oct-15 6,149,036 155,524 Oct-16 6,521,998 154,651
Nov-14 4,498,694 121,530 Nov-15 5,594,199( 144,724 Nov-16 6,272,166 159,587
Dec-17 2,825,729 85,578 Dec-15 3,296,209 92,243 Dec-16 3,894,788 112,740
Jan-15 4,439,444 102,954 Jan-16 5,409,387 116,719 Jan-17 5,871,879 115,784
Feb-15 4,448,056 104,209 Feb-16 3,679,304 107,707 Feb-17 4,924,927 132,587
Mar-15 3,175,561 101,156 Mar-16 3,631,786 112,531 Mar-17 4,510,635 120,837
Apr-15 2,603,637 79,271 Apr-16 3,627,533 105,747 Apr-17 2,905,829 84,454
May-15 4,099,980 95,862 May-16 4,899,246 109,310 May-17 6,097,974 124,097
Jun-15 770,508 40,794 Jun-16 941,705 50,548 Jun-17
Jul-15 936,433 36,793 Jul-16 889,209 43,021 Jul-17


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Users per  hour of day heat map


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Engagement (how much time visitors spend using Blackboard)


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Browsers

Browser Number of Users
Chrome 49,562
Edge 26,556
Safari 26,242
Internet Explorer 17,266
Firefox 3,942
Safari (in-app) 3,260
Android Browser 786
Android Webview 136
Amazon Silk 117
Opera 117
UC Browser 35
IE with Chrome Frame 29
Maxthon 27
Coc Coc 8
BlackBerry 7
Mozilla Compatible Agent 7
Puffin 3
SeaMonkey 3
(not set) 2
Opera Mini 2
Python-urllib 2
YaBrowser 2

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Computer, Mobile, or Tablet?

Type of Device Number of Sessions
Computer 745,092
Mobile 62,257
Tablet 22,843


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Operating System

Operating System Number of Users
Windows 85,399
iOS 19,399
Macintosh 17,140
Android 5,291
Chrome OS 327
Linux 317
Windows Phone 50
(not set) 34
BlackBerry 7
Xbox 7

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Country/ Territory

Country/Territory Unique Visitors
United Kingdom 122,776
Malaysia 1,284
China 623
Singapore 343
Germany 283
United States 227
Spain 184
France 138
Ireland 125
Italy 104
Netherlands 87
Saudi Arabia 80
Hong Kong 60
Australia 53
Switzerland 51
Greece 50
Mexico 48
Norway 44
Thailand 44
United Arab Emirates 38
India 36
Portugal 34
Taiwan 34
Belgium 32
Romania 31
Japan 29
Kenya 29
South Africa 27
Canada 26
Turkey 24
Sweden 22
Denmark 20
Czechia 19
Jersey 19
Cyprus 17
Finland 17
Bulgaria 15
Bahrain 15
Brazil 15
Hungary 15
New Zealand 15
Austria 14
Malta 14
Nigeria 14
Qatar 14
Guernsey 12
Vietnam 12
(not set) 12
Colombia 10
Ecuador 10
Oman 10
Poland 10
Russia 10
Mauritius 9
Philippines 9
Chile 7
Ghana 7
South Korea 7
Lithuania 7
Uganda 7
Brunei 5
Croatia 5
Indonesia 5
Iceland 5
Kazakhstan 5
Luxembourg 5
Peru 5
Slovakia 5
Trinidad & Tobago 5
Kuwait 3
Laos 3
Lebanon 3
Sri Lanka 3
Libya 3
Macedonia (FYROM) 3
Maldives 3
Pakistan 3
Palestine 3
Antigua & Barbuda 2
Albania 2
Argentina 2
Bangladesh 2
Botswana 2
Congo – Kinshasa 2
Côte d’Ivoire 2
Estonia 2
Egypt 2
Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas) 2
Gibraltar 2
Guatemala 2
Israel 2
Iraq 2
Iran 2
Jordan 2
Cayman Islands 2
Latvia 2
Morocco 2
Serbia 2
Slovenia 2
Sierra Leone 2
Senegal 2
Tunisia 2
U.S. Virgin Islands 2
Zambia 2

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Top 10 Screen Resolutions of devices used to access Blackboard

Top 10 Screen Resolutions Number of Sessions
1366×768 224,880
1280×800 117,306
1440×900 100,273
1920×1080 95,019
1536×864 51,304
1280×720 32,584
1680×1050 30,579
375×667 22,162
768×1024 18,923
1280×1024 18,585

Average Page Load Time

Those on the Southampton University network experienced a 1.20 second average page load time.
Those accessing from within the UK experienced a 1.65 second average page load time.
The worldwide average page load time was 1.72 seconds.

Country Avg. Page Load Time (sec)
Finland 0.93
Jersey 1.42
Switzerland 1.56
Czechia 1.6
United Kingdom 1.65
Norway 1.75
Guernsey 2
France 2.42
Spain 2.43
Estonia 2.61
Turkey 2.8
Germany 2.89
Denmark 3.06
(not set) 3.18
India 3.23
Netherlands 3.43
Lebanon 3.89
Greece 4.24
Singapore 4.26
Malaysia 4.62
Italy 4.71
Israel 4.89
Portugal 5.29
United States 5.62
Saudi Arabia 5.84
Brazil 5.89
Ireland 6
Kenya 6.43
Iceland 7.04
Cape Verde 7.1
Thailand 7.22
China 7.53
Australia 7.66
Kazakhstan 7.79
Maldives 8.33
Bahrain 9.65
Mexico 10.4
Austria 10.95
United Arab Emirates 12.69
Mauritius 13.62
Hong Kong 17.33
Qatar 18.61
Nigeria 20.13
Papua New Guinea 21.68
South Africa 24.77
Zimbabwe 34.16
Japan 43.85

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