A Look at Fresno State News

*What in the world is a "pageview?"

Here's a simple definition...a pageview is one person looking at one page on FresnoStateNews.com. In advertising terms...that's the number of individual "impressions" recorded each day.

Here's the detailed description for the more technical (nerdy?) types out there....A "page" is defined as any file dished out by our web server that would generally be considered a web document. This includes HTML pages (.html, .htm, .shtml), script-generated pages (.cgi, .asp, .cfm, etc.), and plain-text pages. Image files (.jpeg, .gif, .png, etc.), sound files (.wav, .aiff, etc.), video files (.mov, .ram, etc.), and other non-document files do not count as pages. Each time a file defined as a page is served, a pageview is registered by FresnoStateNews.com.

This statistic is an accurate indicator of the use of our site. Many Web sites report "hits," but that is a greatly inflated number. We record hundreds of thousands to millions of hits each day. We chose to report the more accurate "pageview" statistic. We currently record over three million pageviews per year.

Top 2004 News Stories at Fresno State

FresnoStateNews.com records which stories our users found most interesting during the course of 2004. For a list of the most popular individual Web pages on our site...click here. Here are the top news stories as selected by our users:

1. President Welty Announces Reductions to Balance Budget -- Concerns about the impact of this year's state budget on the university ranked first in interest. >> www.FresnoStateNews.com/2004/Apr/WeltyBudget.html

2. Science II Update: Dream Takes Shape as Construction Is on Schedule for Three-Building Project -- Thousands of readers traced the ongoing progress on Fresno State's new Science II building...a $22 million addition to the academic program. >> www.FresnoStateNews.com/2004/Apr/ScienceIIupdate.html

3. Former Bulldogs Eyeing Olympic Dreams...Fresno State's Stephen Abas (wrestling) and Vanessa Czarnecki (softball) make Olympic debuts -- The success of Fresno State's Olympians proved to be a gold medal story on FresnoStateNews.com. >> www.FresnoStateNews.com/2004/May/BulldogOlympians.html

4. Fresno State Secret Revealed -- What was the secret? The reality of campus drinking doesn't match the perception. The secret was out as this important story was the fourth most read in 2004. >> www.FresnoStateNews.com/2004/Mar/BestSecret.html

5. Statement on 2004-05 Budget--John D. Welty--April 22, 2004 -- Another aspect of the year's budget concerns weighed heavily on the minds of our readers...the President's detailed plans for the budget were outlined here. >> www.FresnoStateNews.com/2004/Apr/BudgetActionsFullText.html

6. Photo Collection from the 2004 Commencement -- This special photo page proved to be very popular with our readers. It captured in photos the excitement of our first commencement in Fresno State's new Save Mart Center. >> www.FresnoStateNews.com/2004/May/Photos From Commencement.htm

7. Fact Sheet – Budget Actions -- It was back to the budget for our seventh most important story for the year. Thousands of people read this fact sheet on the budget impacts at Fresno State. >> www.FresnoStateNews.com/2004/Apr/BudgetActionFacts.html

8. Fresno State Is Listed in Entrepreneur Magazine’s 2^nd Annual Top 100 Entrepreneurial Colleges and Universities in the United States -- The growing success of Fresno State's entrepreneurial program attracted the attention of the national news media and the readers of FresnoStateNews.com. >> www.FresnoStateNews.com/2004/Apr/TopRanked.html

9. Top Journalists Examine War Media Coverage at Fresno State’s Tatarian Journalism Symposium March 5 -- Fresno State was the site of some of the most important discussions about media coverage and its impact on society among leading Pulitzer Prize winning journalists. It was an important story and you read it here first. >> www.FresnoStateNews.com/2004/Jan/TopJournalists.html

10. Renowned Russian Professor, Former Communist To Visit -- Dr. Ludmilla Selezneva, renowned Russian scholar and one-time communist-activist, regaled local audiences with her accounts of communism and her conversion to democracy during her presentation, "Russia- Yesterday and Today - A View From the Inside." www.FresnoStateNews.com/2004/Jan/RussianAuthor.html

A Look at Fresno State News Stats from 2003

FresnoStateNews.com tracks the use of our Web site to provide better service to you. We adjust our pages dynamically to present the information people are actually seeking. That means our top pages are constantly being updated and changed to reflect your interests. Ongoing statistical reports give insights about what information our students, faculty, staff and the general public seek on our news site. And there are surprises in our 2003 year-long statistics. More people search for Professor Victor Davis Hanson than the Save Mart Center. More people come to our site from AOL than the campus itself. And our top news story? It was the announcement that fees would be going up at the university this year.

Most Popular Pages in 2003

1. Home Page

2. Save Mart Center Homepage (hosted by FresnoStateNews.com in 2003)

3. Reserve a Seat at Save Mart

4. Save Mart Center Arena Builders

5. FAQs on Student Fees

6. Save Mart Center Grand Opening

7. Save Mart Center VIP Web Site

8. Top Web Sites at Fresno State

9. Bye Bye Selland

10. Fresno State-Leading the New California

Top Referrals (where people come from)