One way to look at the success of an educational site is to look at the amount of time in a year spent by users on that site. Below is exactly that.
Total hours since Nov 2,2008:
School Email = 7,806 hours
School Safe Search = 1,894 hours
Primary Games Arena = 1,154 hours
Primary Technology = 771 hours
Primary Blogger = 770 hours
Primary School Teaching (Opened May 2009) = 408 hours
School Closures (Opened Sep 2009) = 84 hours
McLear(My Blog) = 63.7 hours
Thanks to google analytics we can get this information.
I have being able to use this information to explain the real time importance of the sites to their teams. For example if I say to a coder the website has 400 visits a day it doesn’t sound as impressive as if I say..
“The website gives 10 hours of educational help every single day…”
Quite an interesting post, and view too. Hours in this case does have more relevance than page views!