The Institutes of Medicine 2012 report, "Epilepsy Across the Spectrum: Promoting Health and Understanding,” recommended the creation of a centralized source for all epilepsy-related information and support services. Epilepsy.com fulfills that recommendation by providing users with
- Comprehensive information about various types of epilepsy and seizuress, its causes, diagnosis, treatments, and more
- Tools for managing seizures and living the fullest life possible with epilepsy
- News about the latest epilepsy and seizure research
- Resources to support those living with epilepsy and their caregivers
- A community hub for finding and giving support to others
- A modern, scalable website that is accessible from wherever people access the Internet, including computers, tablets, and mobile phones
2014-15 Fiscal Year Highlights
- In 2014-15 we hosted 6.2M users on epilepsy.com and delivered 16M page views.
- An increase of almost 60% in sessions, 50% in unique users and 55% in pageviews compared to 2013-14.
- The top US market grew 63% (66% of all traffic) followed by the UK market (66% growth and 9% of all sessions) and Canada (39% growth and 5% of all sessions).
- 71% increase in Organic search, 100% in paid search, and 220% in social referral.
- Mobile traffic surged 110% (47% of all traffic vs 36% in 2014), desktop 27% (42% of all traffic vs 53% in 2014) and tablet 51% (10% of all traffic vs 11% in 2014)
- 30% of our audience were males and 70% females.
- The #1 age group were the 25-34 with 28% of all sessions, followed by the 35-44 with 22% and the 18-24 with 18%.
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