Usage statistics (through May 2009)

Since the launch of the site on September 2008 through May 2009, the Rose team has noted the following usage statistics:

• 18,557 visits from 123 different countries or territories
• The top five countries represented (in order): United States, France, United Kingdom, Canada, Spain
• 14,402 absolute unique visitors
• 22% of these visitors have returned to the site
• 423 of these visitors have used the site 9-14 times
• 312 of these visitors have used the site 15-25 times
• 163 of these visitors have used the site 26-50 times
• 93 of these visitors have used the site 51-100 times
• 9 of these visitors have used the site 101-200 times
  
• 945 of these visits lasted between 10-30 minutes
• 346 of these visits lasted over 30 minutes

We have noted that France is now number two in the list of top countries represented. This movement may relate to our efforts to translate the site into French.

Usage statistics (through April 2009)

Since the launch of the site on September 2008 through April 2009, the Rose team has noted the following usage statistics:

• 16,331 visits from 119 different countries or territories
• The top five countries represented (in order): United States, France, United Kingdom, Canada, Spain
• 12,852 absolute unique visitors
• 21% of these visitors have returned to the site
• 357 of these visitors have used the site 9-14 times
• 254 of these visitors have used the site 15-25 times
• 105 of these visitors have used the site 26-50 times
• 63 of these visitors have used the site 51-100 times
• 763 of these visits lasted between 10-30 minutes
• 182 of these visits lasted over 30 minutes

We have recently augmented the Google Analytics so that we can now track usage of individual manuscripts and folios. As we gather these data, we will report them to the blog.

32 more manuscripts available!

Changes

• Better sorting of strings ending in numbers when browsing books.
• Formatting fix of French help translation
• Minor French translation updates
• Made 32 manuscripts from the Bibliothèque nationale avilable

We are working now to flesh out the manuscript descriptions of the newly uploaded manuscripts and tag the illustrations.