From owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 3 20:32:43 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3787E680 for ; Thu, 3 Oct 2013 20:32:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lists@eitanadler.com) Received: from mail-pa0-x22f.google.com (mail-pa0-x22f.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:400e:c03::22f]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 0D6912DDA for ; Thu, 3 Oct 2013 20:32:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-pa0-f47.google.com with SMTP id kp14so3131828pab.6 for ; Thu, 03 Oct 2013 13:32:42 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=eitanadler.com; s=0xdeadbeef; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc:content-type; bh=VyRczbui6poZBaiJDxYV+Egj9RX9rZoBIsH/vZb3fyA=; b=OTOXBNXzEVywPhWvqoCRWQc8QgBEjk9voCH92RJYqCsk80fXE2Omu/jhLw2kQd6m62 yzcGXVDmFBEj/H7xKI+sko1Fk90lwueOkFgXd7ytQWfaIIDGU06X61CAV+Zm6x5+jyc5 B30kZF9kDH4NphcCq/Uir38TY2Q90leYeMcrI= X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date :message-id:subject:to:cc:content-type; bh=VyRczbui6poZBaiJDxYV+Egj9RX9rZoBIsH/vZb3fyA=; b=VTSvJDIqUCrAahUOGj1azhsRCsa3Zpz4JX71V2XYXXtDTqARXI4xdyCCsnnM50lFVO ogTQdss4TGA2o+3dViKG7cwbMEDPf8bQi013+QSnae44pOCi0B9T0KJBQvH32jzJ3yjE sJu3eT1WXB5w2PNvZCBkEEnBNb3kldm82YDGJvFS3efG3GISSt9z1h9qlSCyOpo/CHi8 Na7/wSASVpdzlh8GJDA1Y07e+l9nmDccSHauxWiDGJmneuHJnTHeCtlTjWlnlN7mAfmN 9JbAITt2c/+J4KVJ5hFCWfSuGsIAFHogc7NP+xhbjQndo5Ip65jRBapwI/4PwfRY4KtP rliA== X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQmymp6lIDGG0EG8Ze5/Wh/77r1hUVGwKaIJx69JHwrfhNFc6m12LIQmoPbsHq58kZFMFlVN X-Received: by 10.68.238.193 with SMTP id vm1mr2460242pbc.198.1380832362557; Thu, 03 Oct 2013 13:32:42 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.70.6.3 with HTTP; Thu, 3 Oct 2013 13:32:12 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: From: Eitan Adler Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2013 16:32:12 -0400 Message-ID: Subject: Re: About FreeBSD.org visitors To: Remko Lodder Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Cc: "freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org" , FBSD Doc project X-BeenThere: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: FreeBSD Evangelism List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 03 Oct 2013 20:32:43 -0000 On Thu, Oct 3, 2013 at 2:23 PM, Remko Lodder wrote: > > On Oct 3, 2013, at 5:14 PM, Eitan Adler 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