Statistics from the Digital Media and Learning Competition

Here are the stats from the Competition. Pretty incredible. These come courtesy of Brett Walters, our HASTAC and MacArthur Competition webmaster and server maestro. Thanks Brett:

59,056 visits came from 139 countries/territories and used 55
languages (according to users' browser preferences). Eighty (80)
percent of the traffic was direct, 12% form referring sites and just
under 7% was from search engines.

This suggests that our HASTAC viral network is pretty amazing, if most of the traffic was direct. We really got out the word which means we ALL must have been forwarding the message to friends and groups who forwarded the message. All that. 29,958 Absolute Unique Visitors, 368,651 Pageviews, 7:33 Avg. Time on Site. And, in the final count, 1010 applications. Now, on to finding us some great winners amid huge bounty.

The stats from the DML Competition suggest we are riding an incredible wave of interest in digital learning . . . it's great to have a surf board. (Shout out to David: we have a silly photo now of me with a virtual guitar . . . you need to be putting up some surfer photos!)