Who are you? Visitors to the IntMath site…
By Murray Bourne, 18 May 2007
Some information about users of Interactive Mathematics (based on the most recent 100,000 visitors, in May 2007):
Top Countries
Most visitors come from the USA:
United States 72.7% Australia 7.9% Singapore 5.5% Canada 3.2% Great Britain 3.2% European Union 2.0% Indonesia 1.5% India 1.5% Hong Kong 1.1% South Africa 0.8% China 0.6%
Search Terms
In order, the terms used by people visiting the site were (the link takes you to the Google search result for each term):
solving differential equations
Laplace Transformation
trigonometric graphs
radical form
instantaneous rate of change
difference of cubes
When do People Visit the Site?
Day of the Week
It seems that Wednesday is math day - and Sunday is not:
Time of Day
My server is in Singapore, so these are Singapore times (0 is midnight, 12 is noon). For US times, subtract 12 hours (for New York) or 15 hours (for LA). For the east coast of Australia, add 2 hours.
The low points (15 to 16), represent 3 AM to 4 AM in the US east coast.
Windoze or Mac?
Windows 92.3% Macintosh 4.1% Linux 0.9%
Browser?
Microsoft IE 71.6% Firefox 21.8% Safari 2.6% Mozilla 0.7% Opera 0.6% Netscape 0.3%
So much for the claim that IE7 is taking over the world. Since IE7 was released, Firefox penetration has increased on my sites.
Anyone remember when Netscape was the winner in the browser wars?
Who Are You?
A recent poll on the site indicated that for the 1000 who responded,
4%: A math instructor
2%: Just looking
Actually, this is probably the ratio of mathematics students to mathematics instructors worldwide (about 25 to 1).
The current poll says, in answer to the question "Why are you here?":
Doing homework: 29%
Doing research: 25%
Most Popular Pages
After the home page, the most popular pages were:
Basic Algebra
Math of Beauty
Addition and Subtraction (Algebra)
Volume of Solid of Revolution
Graphs of Sine and Cosine
The Parabola
Trigonometric Graphs Intro
So there you go. That's who you are, where you come from, when you come, why you come and where you go on Interactive Mathematics.
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