February 28, 2022 — PITTSBURGH — Niche, the leading platform connecting students and families with colleges and schools, has just published two reports examining year-over-year trends in traffic to schools’ and colleges’ websites. The annual reports are designed to identify industry-wide trends for schools and colleges to use as benchmarks as they strategize and budget for the new year.
2021 Niche Higher Education Website Benchmarks presents metrics drawn from website traffic data for the 2021 calendar year aggregated across 442 higher ed institutions. All participating institutions granted Niche read-only access to their Google Analytics data to track and report on their website traffic.
“This year’s website benchmarks report should be a wake-up call for many colleges,” said Will Patch, Senior Enrollment Insights Leader on the Higher Ed side. “The report shows that higher ed institutions saw less overall traffic to their websites, and more visitors left without taking any actions. Websites need to meet user expectations if colleges want to engage, attract, and ultimately enroll students.”
Some key takeaways include:
The Higher Ed results can be viewed in full here: https://www.niche.com/about/enrollment-insights/2021-niche-higher-education-website-benchmarks/
2021 Niche PK-12 Education Website Benchmarks looks at the same aggregated data across 1,042 PK-12 schools. The report also looked at differences between organic and paid traffic, and general website versus social media-driven traffic.
“This report should give PK-12 schools a reference point for evaluating their own websites, social media channels, or paid digital marketing campaigns against the industry at large,” said Angela Brown, Niche’s PK-12 Senior Enrollment Insights Leader. “Schools can compare bounce rates, engagement, even marketing budgets with what’s common among similar institutions. We hope the report will serve as a quality resource for reporting on last year’s metrics and setting new goals for this year.”
Some key takeaways include:
The PK-12 results can be viewed in full here: https://www.niche.com/about/enrollment-insights/2021-niche-pk-12-education-website-benchmarks/
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