About FreeBSD.org visitors
Here is an overview of the people that visit FreeBSD.org: http://people.freebsd.org/~eadler/files/Report-10.01.pdf Some takeaways: - More than half (60%) the people that come to our website leave without going to another page (called 'bouncing'). However these users spend more time than any other user per page. - Non-bouncing users had an average of just over 4 pages per session but spent about an average of 0.86/s per page. They spend most of their time on the last page. From these I think we can take away that most people come looking for something very specific. How can we fix this? Better search maybe? Improved navigation bar? Its up to you to work on this. - New users spend a lot *less* time on the site than repeat visitors. Do we need better advocacy data? Less text to confuse new users? Is this trend specific to FreeBSD or is it true across the board? - Internet Explorer is 10% of our traffic. Many of ours users use Windows as there primary desktop platform. Probably more if we include not-IE on Windows. What other insights do you see? What other data might be helpful for us? -- Eitan Adler ___ freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-advocacy To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-advocacy-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: About FreeBSD.org visitors
On Thu, Oct 3, 2013 at 7:14 AM, Eitan Adler li...@eitanadler.com wrote: Here is an overview of the people that visit FreeBSD.org: http://people.freebsd.org/~eadler/files/Report-10.01.pdf Some takeaways: - More than half (60%) the people that come to our website leave without going to another page (called 'bouncing'). However these users spend more time than any other user per page. - Non-bouncing users had an average of just over 4 pages per session but spent about an average of 0.86/s per page. They spend most of their time on the last page. This seems normal; they drill down until they find what they want, use it, and then leave. From these I think we can take away that most people come looking for something very specific. How can we fix this? Better search maybe? Improved navigation bar? Its up to you to work on this. - New users spend a lot *less* time on the site than repeat visitors. Do we need better advocacy data? Less text to confuse new users? Is this trend specific to FreeBSD or is it true across the board? - Internet Explorer is 10% of our traffic. Many of ours users use Windows as there primary desktop platform. Probably more if we include not-IE on Windows. What other insights do you see? What other data might be helpful for us? Specifics of which end pages are the popular ones would be enlightening. If we can put ourselves in the shoes of people going to specific pages, we can work on highlighting other content that's useful for their use cases. GA used to provide a graph that showed actual flows, with thicker and thinner flow arrows based on percentage of traffic. Is that still available? Royce ___ freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-advocacy To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-advocacy-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: About FreeBSD.org visitors
A side suggestion: If the vBulletin Forum archives could be turned off, it would help. Thing is, those archives come up in google results. Many times, people find the archive pages (which are bland) instead of the actual thread. http://forums.freebsd.org/archive/index.php Although the information *is* there, I think it's better to have people see the forums instead of the archives. I've seen this done with other vBulletin forum installations elsewhere, and I think it's good practice. I believe it's in vBulletin Options -- in that list of options, there's one called Search Engine Friendly Archive. Selecting that one, the first option is Forum Archive Enabled, set to No. Here's a reference link: http://www.vbseo.com/f34/how-completely-turn-off-vbulletin-archive-24545/ On Thu, Oct 3, 2013 at 11:38 AM, Rodrigo OSORIO rodr...@bebik.net wrote: On 03/10/13 16:35 +0100, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: From: Eitan Adler li...@eitanadler.com Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2013 11:14:48 -0400 Subject: About FreeBSD.org visitors To: FBSD Doc project d...@freebsd.org, freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Here is an overview of the people that visit FreeBSD.org: http://people.freebsd.org/~eadler/files/Report-10.01.pdf Some takeaways: - More than half (60%) the people that come to our website leave without going to another page (called 'bouncing'). However these users spend more time than any other user per page. - Non-bouncing users had an average of just over 4 pages per session but spent about an average of 0.86/s per page. They spend most of their time on the last page. From these I think we can take away that most people come looking for something very specific. How can we fix this? Fix what? What is the problem? Maybe the question is : have they found what they are looking for ? Do you have statistics about how often unique users come back ? Anton ___ freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-advocacy To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-advocacy-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-...@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-doc To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-doc-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-advocacy To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-advocacy-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
vBSDcon Is Coming: Oct 25 - 27, 2013 in Herndon, VA
vBSDcon is a BSD-related conference occurring *this month* from 25th – 27th, just 3 weeks away in the DC Metropolitan area. At a cost of only USD$75, the time to register for this event is now! vBSDcon has an amazing list of speakers from the FreeBSD and OpenBSD communities, but participation from all sectors of the community is encouraged. Our list of speakers and their respective topics can be reviewed at http://www.vbsdcon.com/. In addition to plenary speakers, vBSDcon will also have lightning talks. The topics for these talks is chosen by you! When attendees register for vBSDcon at http://www.vbsdcon.com/, you are given the opportunity to identify subjects and areas of interest to you. This will be translated into a lightning talk to be given by one of our attendees. Be sure not to miss this event hosted by Verisign! This is your opportunity to come together with others in the BSD communities for a series of roundtable discussions, educational sessions, best practice conversations, and exclusive networking opportunities. Registrations will be accepted now through October 23rd at http://www.vbsdcon.com/. We look forward to seeing you all there! -- Vincent (Rick) Miller Systems Engineer vmil...@verisign.commailto:vmil...@verisign.com t: 703-948-4395 m: 703-581-3068 12061 Bluemont Way, Reston, VA 20190 http://www.vbsdcon.com http://www.verisigninc.com “This message (including any attachments) is intended only for the use of the individual or entity to which it is addressed, and may contain information that is non-public, proprietary, privileged, confidential and exempt from disclosure under applicable law or may be constituted as attorney work product. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any use, dissemination, distribution, or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, notify sender immediately and delete this message immediately.” ___ freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-advocacy To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-advocacy-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: About FreeBSD.org visitors
On Oct 3, 2013, at 5:14 PM, Eitan Adler li...@eitanadler.com wrote: Here is an overview of the people that visit FreeBSD.org: http://people.freebsd.org/~eadler/files/Report-10.01.pdf Some takeaways: - More than half (60%) the people that come to our website leave without going to another page (called 'bouncing'). However these users spend more time than any other user per page. - Non-bouncing users had an average of just over 4 pages per session but spent about an average of 0.86/s per page. They spend most of their time on the last page. From these I think we can take away that most people come looking for something very specific. How can we fix this? Better search maybe? Improved navigation bar? Its up to you to work on this. - New users spend a lot *less* time on the site than repeat visitors. Do we need better advocacy data? Less text to confuse new users? Is this trend specific to FreeBSD or is it true across the board? - Internet Explorer is 10% of our traffic. Many of ours users use Windows as there primary desktop platform. Probably more if we include not-IE on Windows. What other insights do you see? What other data might be helpful for us? I thought we were going to see what pages are being hit the most, what kind of search patterns people use to find us (and pages we host), so that we can anticipate that there are perhaps searches that we do not provide content with effectively, or that the download and security information pages are being requested most often, so that we can make sure that vital and accurate information is printed there. For me, your PDF does not say anything at all, because the why's cannot be filled in with this information. What were people looking for and what did they hit? Download FreeBSD and getting the page Why contribute to FreeBSD doesn't satisfy the download request so we should adopt it. Nice graphs, useless information (imo). Remko -- Eitan Adler ___ freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-advocacy To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-advocacy-unsubscr...@freebsd.org -- /\ With kind regards,| re...@elvandar.org \ / Remko Lodder | re...@freebsd.org XFreeBSD| http://www.evilcoder.org / \ The Power to Serve| Quis custodiet ipsos custodes signature.asc Description: Message signed with OpenPGP using GPGMail
Re: About FreeBSD.org visitors
On Thu, Oct 3, 2013 at 2:23 PM, Remko Lodder re...@freebsd.org wrote: I thought we were going to see There is a lot more information around. I must ask permission for each and every report I send in public. I already asked to share some tables regarding visitor path, most used pages, etc. Also, I am not an SEO / web page analytics expert. I need more advice on what you want / need to see. -- Eitan Adler ___ freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-advocacy To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-advocacy-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: About FreeBSD.org visitors
On Thu, Oct 3, 2013 at 1:34 PM, Eitan Adler li...@eitanadler.com wrote: On Thu, Oct 3, 2013 at 2:23 PM, Remko Lodder re...@freebsd.org wrote: I thought we were going to see There is a lot more information around. I must ask permission for each and every report I send in public. I already asked to share some tables regarding visitor path, most used pages, etc. Also, I am not an SEO / web page analytics expert. I need more advice on what you want / need to see. I don't have any insight into the numbers presented. I think if there is action to improve them then some accompanying A/B or other testing to valid the results. -- Adam Vande More ___ freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-advocacy To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-advocacy-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: About FreeBSD.org visitors
On Thu, Oct 3, 2013 at 2:23 PM, Remko Lodder re...@freebsd.org wrote: On Oct 3, 2013, at 5:14 PM, Eitan Adler li...@eitanadler.com wrote: Here is an overview of the people that visit FreeBSD.org: http://people.freebsd.org/~eadler/files/Report-10.01.pdf Some takeaways: - More than half (60%) the people that come to our website leave without going to another page (called 'bouncing'). However these users spend more time than any other user per page. - Non-bouncing users had an average of just over 4 pages per session but spent about an average of 0.86/s per page. They spend most of their time on the last page. From these I think we can take away that most people come looking for something very specific. How can we fix this? Better search maybe? Improved navigation bar? Its up to you to work on this. - New users spend a lot *less* time on the site than repeat visitors. Do we need better advocacy data? Less text to confuse new users? Is this trend specific to FreeBSD or is it true across the board? - Internet Explorer is 10% of our traffic. A graph of visitor flow and falloff: http://people.freebsd.org/~eadler/files/reports/report-10.01-flow.pdf Which pages people visit and how long they stay there: http://people.freebsd.org/~eadler/files/reports/report-10.01-pages.pdf This is the same report but sorted by most time spent on page and filtered to exclude pages that match ^/cgi http://people.freebsd.org/~eadler/files/reports/report-10.01-most-time.pdf Of note: if you sort by most time spent on page you get man pages -- Eitan Adler ___ freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-advocacy To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-advocacy-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
