Who are you? Visitors to the IntMath site…
Some information about users of the related site, Interactive Mathematics (based on the most recent 100,000 visitors):
Top Countries
Most visitors come from the USA:
United States 72.7% Australia 7.9% Singapore 5.5% Canada 3.2% Great Britain 3.2% European Union 2.0% Indonesia 1.5% India 1.5% Hong Kong 1.1% South Africa 0.8% China 0.6%
Referring Pages
Sites where visitors arrived from (in order):
homeschoolmath.net
Wikipedia (Laplace Transform article)
Wise County, Virginia [link no longer available]
The Mathsroom
Nwlincs
Math Manipulatives
Shambles.net
Techacademy
Search Engines
Google was the most popular search engine for those who arrived via a search:
Google 88.6% Yahoo 9.3% AOL 0.9% MSN 0.8% AltaVista 0.1% Dogpile 0.1% Earth Link 0.1% Netscape 0.1%
Search Terms
In order, the terms used by people visiting the site were (the link takes you to the Google search result for each term):
solving differential equations
Laplace Transformation
trigonometric graphs
radical form
instantaneous rate of change
difference of cubes
When do People Visit the Site?
Day of the Week
It seems that Wednesday is math day – and Sunday is not:
Time of Day
My server is in Singapore, so these are Singapore times (0 is midnight, 12 is noon). For US times, subtract 12 hours (for New York) or 15 hours (for LA). For the east coast of Australia, add 2 hours.
The low points (15 to 16), represent 3 AM to 4 AM in the US east coast.
Windoze or Mac?
Windows 92.3% Macintosh 4.1% Linux 0.9%
Browser?
Microsoft IE 71.6% Firefox 21.8% Safari 2.6% Mozilla 0.7% Opera 0.6% Netscape 0.3%
So much for the claim that IE7 is taking over the world. Since IE7 was released, Firefox penetration has increased on my sites.
Anyone remember when Netscape was the winner in the browser wars?
Who Are You?
A recent poll on the site indicated that for the 1000 who responded,
4%: A math instructor
2%: Just looking
Actually, this is probably the ratio of mathematics students to mathematics instructors worldwide (about 25 to 1).
The current poll says, in answer to the question “Why are you here?”:
Doing homework: 29%
Doing research: 25%
Most Popular Pages
After the home page, the most popular pages were:
Basic Algebra
Math of Beauty
Addition and Subtraction (Algebra)
Volume of Solid of Revolution
Graphs of Sine and Cosine
The Parabola
Trigonometric Graphs Intro
So there you go. That’s who you are, where you come from, when you come, why you come and where you go on Interactive Mathematics.
Welcome to Interactive Mathematics and squareCirclez!
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4 Feb 2011 at 9:13 pm [Comment permalink]
Thanks for providing such a terrific site. I’m a semi-retired Professor of Public Health. I do (and have taught) epidemiology and basic inferential statistics. However, my hobby is electronics. I’ve begun in my retirement to revisit basic issues of circuit design and am trying to understand the mathematics–not being trained as an engineer. I found your site through the ARRL (American Radio Relay League) Handbook.
Thank you. It’s been just what I needed to brush up.
Jim H.
4 Feb 2011 at 9:47 pm [Comment permalink]
Hi Jim. Thanks for the feedback and I’m glad you found IntMath.com useful.
It’s interesting the number of retired visitors here, rediscovering math when they have some time to do so. Good on you!