Dalhousie鈥檚 website is big 鈥� really big.
Actually, calling it a website is a bit of a misnomer: it鈥檚 really a collection of hundreds of websites and thousands upon thousands of pages.
鈥淭here are about 140,000 pages in our dal.ca search index,鈥� explains James Covey, director of the 黑料吃瓜网Web Team.
Over the past three years, the Web Team has been working with faculties, departments and offices to transition their pages to the latest design and navigation, using the Adobe CQ platform.
Nearly all of Dal鈥檚 faculties, for example, have launched within the past year, as have many departments. The Web Team has also worked with Communications and Marketing, the Registrar鈥檚 Office and individual departments to launch , with grad programs soon to follow.
Out of all these sites, the most popular is, of course, the dal.ca homepage: as a gateway to the university鈥檚 content for a wide variety of users, it鈥檚 had more than 10.7 million visits in the past year alone. So we asked the Web Team to dig a bit deeper into its numbers and find us the next Top 5 most popular websites on the dal.ca domain over the past year.
1. (1.9 million visits)
The site that tops our list should surprise no one: from students scrounging for books for assignments to professors scanning journal databases, no Dal website gets as much regular traffic as the Libraries.
2. (775,000 visits)
You may not have suspected a faculty to be this high on the list, but consider that the Faculty of Agriculture is home to Dal鈥檚 largest community outside of Halifax, with many local services, supports and events specific to Truro. It鈥檚 a hub of information for Dal鈥檚 home in the hub of Nova Scotia.
3. (700,000 visits)
We鈥檙e flattered! With around 500 stories published each year 鈥� shared in our weekly email as well as on Today@Dal, MyDal and on social media 鈥� our website is consistently one of the most popular at the university.
4. (396,000 visits)
Whether you鈥檙e looking to download programs made available to the Dal community, find information about the help desk or figure out how to set up your dal.ca account on your email software, the Information Technology Services website is the place to go. 聽
5. (370,000 visits)
When you combine information about the varsity 黑料吃瓜网Tigers with Dalplex鈥檚 suite of recreation and fitness facilities and programs, it鈥檚 no wonder that the Athletics & Recreation website would be such a popular destination. 聽
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