The Site's Statistics

The following information is held on this page:

• Redirects - whenever a user clicks on a link to a training provider's Website, the redirlog table is updated various pieces of information. This section is broken into:
  • Most popular directories showing the number of people visiting training providers' Websites from which directories
  • Most popular locations showing where most users are looking to study
• Course Search - whenever a user carries out a course search it is recorded in the crsesrchlog table.

Please refer to the notes beneath each graph for more information.

Redirects

When a user clicks a link to a training provider's Website the redirlog table within the database is updated with the user's IP address, the date and time, the location on this site where the link was clicked and the search text that was entered, if it was following a course search. The last record is at 09:57:03 (GMT) on 06-09-2010.

Most Popular Directories

The following graph and table shows a breakdown of the redirects from the different directories in the last year:

Please note:

• There are no data (neither for redirects nor from the course search) between April and August 2004
• No allowance has been made for double (or more) clicks - if a user double clicks a link it will show up here as two clicks.

Most Popular Locations

The following graph and table shows a breakdown of the redirects by location in the last year (the figures only include redirects from the three main directories - not freelance, course search, etc):

Course Searches

Each time a course search is carried out, various details are recorded, including the category or course title, where applicable. The following graph shows a breakdown of these course searches carried out since 19 August 2003. The last record is at 26:27:57 (GMT) on 01-09-2010.

Please note: the course search log was started in August 2003. Only some of the 10,692 course searches (those using either of the drop downs) can be analysed for this graph.

These graphs and tables are compiled 'on-the-fly' using the GD library (version 1.6.2) for PHP and MySQL (written, as always, by Jonathan Rew). If you would like to know more about how they have been done, etc or have any comments about them please let me know.

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