Web Statistics

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Web statistics for the main Mason web server are available here:

At the moment, this data is not particularly robust or reliable.

Web Counters

To maintain the professional image of George Mason University, we do not recommend web counters be included on university web sites.

Counters show the number of "hits" a page has received. Unfortunately, hits alone are a very poor rubric for analyzing visits to a web site. They don't indicate how many unique visitors a site gets, where they came from, or in what time frame the visits were received. It's a flat number that can be artificially inflated.

If you're interested in tracking visits to a web site you maintain, then Google Analytics is a recommended option.