Mouse Tracks

Now and then we take a look at the usage of our web pages. Mind you, the numbers are minute by internet standards, but by far the most frequently visited pages in April were

the home page,
the New Mexico & Southwest Links,
and this blog.

Below there, the numbers drop off fairly rapidly, and some of the pages singled out by your mouse clicks are bafflingly specific. The next most-visited pages are

library hours and locations
Internet Starting Points
Books and Literature
About the Library
the Southwest Reference Collection
Most Popular Authors 2003
Doing Local History in Santa Fe
Poets and Poetry in New Mexico
the Other Libraries section of "New Mexico & Southwest Links"
the Southside Library Page
Southside Library construction photographs

Whenever we look at this, we have to wonder: Where are people picking up that link to the list of Southwest titles which are only in the reference cases, and why do they care? What's special about the most popular authors in 2003, why aren't they more interested in, for example, last year's list?

The other thing we always look at when we think about the web traffic is, what browsers people are using. Our visitors are using

Internet Explorer     70.87%
FireFox     18.98%
Safari     7.80%

The numbers have changed only a very little since last summer, but the trend is still away from Internet Explorer. Firefox and the Mac browser Safari continue to gain ground.