September is always the busy time on campus so one thing that is cool to do is look back to last years traffic and see how things are fairing, are things going up or down are things scaling etc. Well things are still going up, way up which is very cool. No longer brochure traffic! WordPress is more popular than ever on this campus.

The WordPress CMS service which has been growing rapidly and has seen a huge spike in traffic thanks to some 50+ campus sites coming on board (and one very popular site http://elearning.ubc.ca). Last year during the month of September the service had (79,821) page views fast forward a year and the service averaged (2,009,301) page views 25x increase!

WordPress CMS Service page views Sept 2009 – 2010

UBC Blogs which has moved out of the “pilot” mode is also increasing not as rapidly as the CMS service which is kind of a surprise we though it would be the opposite… In September 2009 UBC Blogs saw (158,654) page views in September 2010 (434,203) more than double.

UBC Blogs page views September 2009 – 2010

Even wiki.ubc.ca has seen a double in traffic as well. Thanks to quite a few courses taking a stab at developing their course in the wide open wiki.

Exciting times.