The Society for Acute Medicine
Website Report : September 2015
Author : Nithin Narayan
Key Stats (Summary of Appendix 1)
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Since launch of the new site on 20th June 2014 there have been 55,690 visitors to the
site. Of which 38,845 (69.8%) were unique visitors. Equating to approximately 3700
total visitors (2600 unique) per month.
There peaks of visitors in November, May and July. These coincide with the TakeAIM
campaign, SAMBristrol & SAM elections.
Since the last conference…
o 17,585 visitors to the site, 11,625 (66.1%) were unique visitors.
o 82.4% of visitors were from the UK.
o 71.6% of visitors came through search engines, 19.8% accessed the site
directly and 6.5% were referred from other sites. Only 2.2% of visitors
accessed the site through social media.
o There was a 36.6% rise in number of visitors to the site when comparing July
& August 2014 with July & August 2015 (6932 vs 9472)
o There have been 55,462 page views. Of which the homepage and pages for
SAM conferences were the most popular.
o The SAM Elections page attracted 794 views. Of which 177 accessed the
Members Only Voting platform and 57 submitted a vote for the Trainee
Representative. Congratulations Sanjay!
Domain & Webhosting
Recently both Stephanie and the TakeAIM fellows have contacted me about masking their email address to a @acutemedicine.org.uk address. The difficulty arises from how the
@acutemedicine.org.uk addresses have been setup on the domain, which is as email
forwards. Email forwards limit the possibility to mask the senders email. The solution would
require either setting up webmail accounts on the domain, or utilising an email service such
as Google Apps for Work. Both solutions would require me to have administrative control
over the domain, which is still registered and controlled by Broxden. I can transfer the
domain to my GoDaddy account for free. There may be a small additional cost to add the
webmail accounts to the domain, however, I should be able to utilise free packages I have on
my GoDaddy account. Alternatively, Google Apps for Work would cost about £6.60 per
month. At present, Broxden are also providing the webhosting package for the site, last
renewed in April 2015. Once the domain has been transferred I can look at transferring that
too. To prevent any downtime for the website, I will need the administrative control of any
transfers.
Nithin Narayan
Website Lead
September 2015
SAM Council Meeting
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SAM Manchester