University of Richmond

Metrics (2008–09)

Following is a brief snapshot of the resources, transactions, and miscellaneous items that Information Services has supported at the University of Richmond in the 2008–09 academic year.


Campus Resources

Web

www.richmond.edu site in 2008
  • 1,600,000+ total visits
  • 3,000,000+ total pageviews
  • 6,23,000+ absolute unique visitors
  • 1.84 pages/visit
  • 2 mins and 17 second average time on site
  • has been visited by users in 203 countries
  • ~120 unique university Web sites
Cascade
  • 180 Cascade users
  • 95 sites in Cascade
  • 7,500 html pages in Cascade
  • 12,000 images in Cascade
  • 230 flash swf files in Cascade
  • 2.5 GB of files published by Cascade
The new - newspiders.richmond.edu site in 2008
  • viewed from 103 countries
  • 43,268 total visits
  • 222,211 total page views
  • 5.14 pages/visit
  • 5 mins and 06 seconds on site
  • 131 student org Web accounts
  • 4833 student tilde Web accounts
  • Web News and Features viewed from 148 countries

Telecommunication, Media Support Services & User Services

TMSS
  • 2,116,341 telephone calls completed in 2008
  • 5,221,456 minutes associated with telephone calls
  • 4,200 extensions supported
  • 6,822 voice mailboxes managed
  • 609 events requiring multimedia technician support; including 119 video recording sessions
  • 199 classrooms/learning spaces supported
  • 159 spaces with multimedia presentation capabilities
  • 120 spaces equipped with touch panel control systems
  • 6 spaces equipped with fixed video conference capabilities (plus 1 mobile system)
User Services
  • 28,396 Help Desk service and work request tickets generated
  • Faculty/Staff: 15,547
  • Student: 8,568
  • Misc., including classroom calls, guest account setups, service for retirees: 4,281
  • Service examples:
    • 136 data recovery efforts on systems with dead drives
    • 110 systems were recovered
    • 252 viruses removed
    • 301 malware cleaned
  • 928 campus computers replaced (this work is in addition to the service and work request numbers referenced above):
    • 734 PCs
    • 194 Macs
    • 9,297 technology assets managed
    • 640 technology purchases processed

Systems & Networks

  • 238,905,983 rows of data in a single Banner database
  • 46,978,193 rows in a single database table (Blackboard web statistics)
  • 92,409 system alerts (pager and e-mail notifications)
  • 12,000 port Cisco wired network
  • 3,361 wireless devices registered by students (59% Windows, 40% Apple, 1% other)
  • 2,880 wired devices registered by students (57% Windows, 30% Apple, 13% other)
  • 1,408 Discoverer reports run
  • 636 Cisco wireless access points managed
  • 511 Change Control items
  • 377 Banner users
  • 251 servers managed (48 are "virtual")
  • 278 GB (largest single Oracle database)
  • 167 administrative/academic applications supported
  • 110 "IS Alerts"
  • 78 GB (size of a single Banner database)
  • 74 Banner users trained in 44 classes
  • 52 Oracle databases (total of 1023 GB) managed
  • 16 Oracle application servers managed
  • 7 Banner databases managed

Daily Transactions

  • 7,759,901 attacks blocked by the Internet firewall
  • 181,923 spam messages rejected (65% of all e-mail received)
  • 110,639 legitimate emails delivered (35% of all emails received)
  • 159,081 Open LDAP searches performed
  • 702 Banner jobs run
  • 296 server backups (some servers have separate system and database backups)

Prior Year Metrics

Help Desk

Chat with Help Desk
(804) 287-6400
helpdesk@richmond.edu
Jepson Hall, Room G-19
Hours: M–F, 8:30 a.m.–9 p.m.
Phone support: S–S, 10 a.m.–4 p.m.


Telecom/Media Support

(804) 287-6500
telecom@richmond.edu
Jepson Hall, Room G-3
Hours: M–F, 8:30 a.m.–5 p.m.
After hours: 287-6500


Technology Learning Center (TLC)

(804) 289-8772
tlc@richmond.edu
Boatwright Library, Room 317
Hours: M–F, 8:30 a.m.–5 p.m.
M–Th, 8:30 a.m.–midnight during semester
Some weekend hours available