On Thursday, 23 June 2016 at 19:24:49 UTC, Seb wrote:
Let me start with the good news: since the DLang Tour was
launched by André last month, we had about 3K unique visitors
and continuously have between 100-200 visitors per day.
However here are the bad news: We loose about 40% of all
visitors directly on the front page and we loose the majority
(>70%) on the first ten pages.
Our DLang Tour is the starting point for newcomers. Hence if
you think in terms of Andrei's first five minutes, we loose
pretty badly!
We already tried to improve things a bit (slicker design, D-man
on the front page), but we need your help to motivate future
D-eists and inspire them!
Last week we split the tour in individual Markdown files per
chapter, s.t. improving the tour is only a button click away.
I don't think you're going to solve this problem with better
content for the tour--since people aren't even really getting to
the content. Also, losing people after 10 pages doesn't sound
that bad. I wouldn't expect people to go through the whole tour
in one sitting. Nonetheless there are a couple of things that
make me bounce.
The main one is no visible TOC. The only way to move around the
tour is to go forward or backward one by one---making it hard to
skip around, or understand what topics are coming up. A div on
the side with all the section links would be great.
Also, while the live code window in the browser is neat, it
breaks up the flow of the page, and I feel like I'd usually just
prefer inline un-editable text. (E.g., what are you really going
to experiment with in the Hello World script here?
http://tour.dlang.org/tour/en/basics/imports-and-modules)
These are just my opinions, and I don't claim to be
representative of the audience you want to attract.
Overall, I think this is a fantastic project. Thanks to all
who've been working on it!
