{"id":1373,"date":"2015-10-06T08:57:36","date_gmt":"2015-10-06T08:57:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/mle\/?p=1373"},"modified":"2015-10-06T09:01:27","modified_gmt":"2015-10-06T09:01:27","slug":"blackboard-performance-during-the-start-of-term","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/mle\/2015\/10\/06\/blackboard-performance-during-the-start-of-term\/","title":{"rendered":"Blackboard Performance during the Start of Term 2015\/16"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The new semester is now in full swing and as we start to get into Week 2 it&#8217;s worth reviewing how Blackboard has responded to the increased usage that a new semester brings particularly when one considers <a href=\"http:\/\/sotontab.co.uk\/2015\/08\/26\/record-numbers-of-freshers-coming-to-southampton\/\" target=\"_blank\">this year&#8217;s intake of new students is the highest ever<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>This graph shows how between 22 September and 5 October Blackboard usage in terms of number of pages of Blackboard accessed per day rose significantly, whilst at the same time the average time that it took for a user to receive a fully loaded page\u00a0showed no deterioration.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/mle\/files\/2015\/10\/start_of_term_bb_performance.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1374\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/mle\/files\/2015\/10\/start_of_term_bb_performance.png\" alt=\"start_of_term_bb_performance\" width=\"586\" height=\"559\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/mle\/files\/2015\/10\/start_of_term_bb_performance.png 586w, https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/mle\/files\/2015\/10\/start_of_term_bb_performance-300x286.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 586px) 100vw, 586px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The average page load time is often considered to be the best measurement of page responsiveness. \u00a0You can find out more here:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kissmetrics.com\/loading-time\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/blog.kissmetrics.com\/loading-time\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>That there was no deterioration in page load time reflects the<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/mle\/2013\/12\/17\/blackboard-in-the-new-data-centre-what-does-it-mean-for-me\/\" target=\"_blank\"> investments iSolutions has put into the Blackboard infrastructure <\/a>and our continued determination to <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/mle\/category\/itil\/service-level-targets\/\" target=\"_blank\">improve service quality<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The new semester is now in full swing and as we start to get into Week 2 it&#8217;s worth reviewing how Blackboard has responded to the increased usage that a new semester brings particularly when one considers this year&#8217;s intake of new students is the highest ever.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75418,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25291,284875,453224],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-analytics","category-blackboard","category-blackboard-analytics","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/mle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/mle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/mle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/mle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/75418"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/mle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1373"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/mle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1373\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1377,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/mle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1373\/revisions\/1377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/mle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/mle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/mle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}