On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 4:10 PM, James Alexander jalexan...@wikimedia.org
wrote:
people using apps more and more EXCEPT for news/reference in which case
they were almost not using apps at all and only using mobile web
According to the most recent annual study conducted by the IAB, even
Yes, good points, and of course those reports do not mean we have to
strive for the same ratios for our own traffic. One could imagine a
universe where the browser becomes the app where I read Wikipedia
articles for most people and we would still be happy with our
pageviews (if not with the state
Yeah, I need to actually find the reference where I read the study (wasn't
able to see it quickly so will probably look tonight) but IIRC there was a
very clear distinction between people using apps more and more EXCEPT for
news/reference in which case they were almost not using apps at all and
On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 2:10 PM, James Alexander
jalexan...@wikimedia.org wrote:
While it's certainly interesting (though not surprising) to see the level of
entertainment activities I worry that attempting to compete time wise with
twitter/facebook etc is not a very efficient use of our
.. well, that would be a bit too simplified, but there's food for
thought in these two reports:
http://qz.com/466089/the-fastest-growing-mobile-phone-markets-barely-use-apps/
(In Asia and Africa, websites made up 90% and 96% of mobile
impressions, respectively, in the second quarter.
Their habits
It's worth noting that the 2nd graphic given on
http://thenextweb.com/insider/2015/08/26/how-we-use-our-phones-is-changing-in-a-big-way-heres-the-data-that-proves-it/
tells us that most app usage is on facebook, entertainment(games). I
interpret this as the web is not as engaging as an app.
