Colleges with the Most Visits to the Boundless Line
by Motte Brown on 08/27/2007 at 3:03 PM
Ted's post got me thinking about which colleges are most represented on the blog when measured by visits. So I did some checking and thought it'd be fun to announce a top ten.
Over the last year (and it'll be a year August 31st since our first blog), Azusa Pacific University registered the most visits to our little blog with 1,246. Azusa Pacific is a Christian school in Southern California with an enrollment of about 4,200. Go Cougars!
Here's the rest of the ten (and a couple of notables):
2) Amherst College -- 1,224
3) Hillsdale College -- 1,058
4) University of Oklahoma -- 1,010
5) University of Chicago -- 990
6) University of Michigan -- 891
7) Yale University -- 847
8) St. John's College -- 786
9) Purdue University -- 669
10) University of Notre Dame -- 617
Overall, there were over 2,000 colleges with at least one visit to The Line. My alma mater, Clemson University in good ol' South Kakalaky, came in at number 20 with about 350 visits, about the same number as the University of Oxford. Not bad Tigers.
So whether it's one zealous fan with many visits or a group of you getting together at coffee shops to log-on, thanks so much for your participation. And keep reading. =)
If you like, you can use this thread to give a shout out for your school.
1. Andrea (aka Elena) said the following at 3:32 PM on Aug 27:
Belmont University, class of '97.... gooooo, Bruins!
2. Canadian Boy said the following at 3:33 PM on Aug 27:
Liberty? BJU?
Well, this post has made my day.
Oh, and sad to see no Canadian universities up there.
3. Amy said the following at 3:59 PM on Aug 27:
Boiler up! Go Purdue!
4. James said the following at 4:40 PM on Aug 27:
I attend Stephen F. Austin State University in Texas. I got hooked on the boundless.org site and this blog over the summer. I've gotten most of the people in my college ministry and my fraternity (Brothers Under Christ) reading the blog as well. I love it! Keep up the great work...
5. Chris Krycho said the following at 4:40 PM on Aug 27:
I'm more than slightly amused by the fact that OU is on there, given that that's my home these days... I wouldn't be surprised if a very high number of those visits were me. Zealous indeed.
Do you have stats for how many users from each school there are (because that'd also be interesting to see)?
6. Melissa said the following at 5:19 PM on Aug 27:
Yeah Purdue!!! It's also awesome to see another Boiler Boundless-ite. Holla!
7. Nelson said the following at 5:22 PM on Aug 27:
Are these unique hits or just hits? And also, depending on network technologies involved, you will probably get tons of hits from the same IP if they're using NAT and an internal network.
It could be one person who really, really likes to be updated with your blog :P
8. Vanessa said the following at 5:43 PM on Aug 27:
M GO BLUE!!!! GO WOLVERINES!!!!! GO BIG 10!!!!!
9. Lee McKusick said the following at 6:11 PM on Aug 27:
Yeah, being an IT geek, I'm wondering the same stuff as Nelson.
And any chance of getting a bigger portion of the list than just top 10? Considering Ted's estimate that about half of us are in college, I think it'd be cool to see where we all place. :)
10. Katye said the following at 6:32 PM on Aug 27:
I was at Penn State when Boundless started (I remember the ad that ran in the student newspaper) and after teaching for 5 years I am starting a graduate program at Indiana University of PA.
Most of my Boundless/Line viewing has been at a home computer with no university connection, but I just had to cheer on Pennsylvania schools here.
11. Motte said the following at 6:54 PM on Aug 27:
Katye:
Funny you should mention Penn State. They came in at number 11.
Nelson and Lee:
The percentage of unique visitors vs. visitors varies widely per school. But of the approximate 100,000 visits registered to college domains over the last year, 30,000 were unique.
12. Leah said the following at 7:34 PM on Aug 27:
Pretty much all of my Boundless-ing is on my home computer.
Although, I will tell you a funny story thanks to Boundless-
I once got a comment on my MSN Space from a girl named Amelia, I think. She read about me going to a national evangelical student training conference in Canberra called NTE (National Training Event), and that I came from James Cook University. Turns out she had read one of my comments on the Boundless Line and followed the link to my MSN Space, read about me, and left a comment saying she had also just returned from NTE and asking if I knew her cousin Esther Staines who also went to Christian Union at JCU- which I do!
Oh yeah, and while I'm here, a shout-out for ALL Aussie Universities, but ESPECIALLY James Cook Uni!!
13. Samuel Keane-Rudolph said the following at 8:36 PM on Aug 27:
Winona State, Winona, MN, USA.
I stumbled across boundless.org and trueu.org randomly and have been slowly spreading it around... there's nine or ten of us reading it now!
14. Sara said the following at 10:19 PM on Aug 27:
University of Maryland, College Park. Go Terps!
15. Jeffrey J. Stables said the following at 10:48 PM on Aug 27:
Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta. Go Jackets, sting 'em!
16. Pete said the following at 10:52 PM on Aug 27:
Virginia Tech here, go Hokies!
17. Samuel PG said the following at 11:31 PM on Aug 27:
I'm so proud of Azusa Pacific. The funny thing is, xeres and I probably made almost all of those hits.
18. Bethany said the following at 11:44 PM on Aug 27:
Messiah College!!! woot :)
19. Dan said the following at 12:13 AM on Aug 28:
A big hello from the town of Toowoomba, University of Southern Queensland in Australia. We have no fancy nicknames (none that are repeatable on here anyway). All I know is that our motto thingy is per studia mens nova, which is latin for study through effort or something. If anyone could come up with something that doesn't contain the word kangaroo or something equally aweful, then that would be awesome!!
20. James said the following at 12:35 AM on Aug 28:
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, class of 2006!
21. Kathryn said the following at 3:14 AM on Aug 28:
Hi Leah, shouting right back from Murdoch university in Perth, Aust. I've never been to NTE as it's a bit too expensive, but a number of my Murdoch Christian Union buddies have been. I go to the more local AFES camps though! :D
I keep passing on links to friends. But I don't think they read it. Most of my friends don't spend as much time on the internet as me.
22. Megan said the following at 6:19 AM on Aug 28:
Awesome to see some Boilermakers on here! Go Purdue!
23. Loris said the following at 6:32 AM on Aug 28:
Go SCOTS! Covenant College here.
24. Rob said the following at 6:36 AM on Aug 28:
Motte, I'm at Clemson, & I read Boundless every day! We're out there, don't worry- go Tigers!
25. Jen said the following at 7:04 AM on Aug 28:
i'm excited to see amherst college on there, since I know it's in a very liberal town and is quite the liberal arts school, and highly academic. i think that's awesome that there is a large percentage of people visiting boundless
26. Jacob said the following at 8:01 AM on Aug 28:
Hillsdale College is where it's at. Go Chargers!
27. Laura said the following at 8:06 AM on Aug 28:
Leah, may I ask which uni you go to??? One of my relatives works with AFES, and I live in the Brisbane area too and haven't come across many Australian bloggers (sorry to anyone who is!!!).
Anyway, just curious.
28. Celeste Cade said the following at 9:44 AM on Aug 28:
I am a Mississippi College alumni. I hope other Choctaws are checking out Boundless!!
29. Jane said the following at 9:53 AM on Aug 28:
Hail to the Victors! Go Michigan!
30. E Holmes said the following at 12:08 PM on Aug 28:
I'm from Michigan--started out at Northern Michigan University--but I'm now a super senior at Patrick Henry College in Purcellville, VA.
31. EKB said the following at 12:46 PM on Aug 28:
Go Irish! I had no idea there were so many domers on here!
32. Carrie said the following at 12:56 PM on Aug 28:
I second Loris.
Covenant College class of '04!!
33. April L. said the following at 2:19 PM on Aug 28:
Moody Bible Institute! Studying for their Bachelor's in Biblical Studies right here at home in Roseburg, Oregon!
34. Christine said the following at 3:26 PM on Aug 28:
We are...Penn State! Any former/current Harvest/AACF members reading this blog out there?
35. Lianna said the following at 7:42 PM on Aug 28:
Dan, your school's motto means through study a new mind. I just graduated from West Chester University and will soon be attending Université de Caen Basse-Normandie in France...where I will quite possibly be the only Boundless line lurker on campus :-)
36. Elisabeth said the following at 8:31 PM on Aug 28:
Northwestern College, MN, home of the screamin' eagles. I got hooked on TrueU a few years ago when I was at a secular school, and then I've migrated over to Boundless as I've gotten older.
37. Leah said the following at 11:11 PM on Aug 28:
Kathryn- you're from Murdoch?! Do you know Claire Deaves?
38. Leah said the following at 11:12 PM on Aug 28:
Laura- James Cook University. Our staffworkers are Dave and Tori Walker, and Tim and Katrina Earnshaw.
39. Kathryn said the following at 10:27 AM on Aug 29:
yes I do know Clare. We meet up every Friday to read "The Fruitful Life" by Jerry Bridges, which she gave me for my 21st along with his "The Pursuit of Holiness." Great books, very encouraging. And Clare is awesome! :D Highly recommend her too. ;)
Haha, small world!
40. Britta said the following at 3:16 PM on Aug 29:
Go Falcons! I'm glad to see a Messiah student here! :-)
41. stephanie said the following at 4:19 PM on Aug 29:
Eastern Washington University alumnus here! i've been a BW reader since 1998. GO EAGLES!!!
42. Leah said the following at 6:44 PM on Aug 29:
Kathryn- Clare used to be a staffworker at my uni. She left at the end of '04 though to go to Murdoch, and I started uni at '05. However, I did get to know her a bit at NTE '04 because I was there for Strand 12 (the special strand for people finishing grade 12 and going into uni).
What degree are you doing? I have a friend Sarani doing Vet at Murdoch. (but she isn't involved in MCU).
43. florida_girl said the following at 8:26 PM on Aug 29:
started reading this while at Palm Beach Atlantic University. anybody else from Florida?
hmmm. we should be in the top ten...a number of us read it. hopefully no one quit.
44. Hannah C. said the following at 12:37 AM on Aug 30:
University of Dallas here...That's the small Catholic one, not the large TX state one! Though I've yet to move into the dorms, so....
45. Becca said the following at 6:44 AM on Aug 30:
If there's actually anyone out there reading this from the University of Chicago aside from myself, we should have lunch when the quarter starts.
46. Kathryn said the following at 9:22 AM on Aug 30:
I have a friend named Sarah doing vet from the eastern states (don't know which state tho), but I don't know a Sarani. I'm doing Primary Education.
47. taylor said the following at 11:36 AM on Oct 23:
GO CATS!!!
University of Kentucky here...
:-)
48. Sheria said the following at 3:19 AM on Feb 27:
OSU!Go bucks!
49. Abrielle said the following at 7:25 PM on May 22:
I think I may be the only Goucher College student here.
To be completely honest, I am not a big fan. I am just trying to graduate. :-)