Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2013 20:04:02 -0400 From: Allan Jude <freebsd@allanjude.com> To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: About FreeBSD.org visitors Message-ID: <52574072.2030302@allanjude.com> In-Reply-To: <20131010232527.GA519@yavin.local> References: <CAF6rxgmZL7-kagQ=Sed_cPsgwCV4YxxWTErQ0UAFbh_DpRnZ=Q@mail.gmail.com> <20131010232527.GA519@yavin.local>
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On 2013-10-10 19:25, Derek Wood wrote: > On Thu, Oct 03, 2013 at 11:14:48AM -0400, 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. >> >> 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-doc@freebsd.org mailing list >> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-doc >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-doc-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > The bounces I would be most concerned about are the ones from > index.html, because I wouldn't call anything there useful (e.g, no > direct links to a FreeBSD iso) I did manage to get them to change the text of the link that leads to the ISOs to contain the word 'Download', that is a start > A few ideas: > > - Offer prebuilt FreeBSD VMs > > - A link to a screenshots page? This might be tacky but I believe that > most potential users view FreeBSD as solely a console-based system, > so showing what the user can do with the different desktop > environments available in ports can help dispel this. > > - Update the information blurb below "The FreeBSD Project": > > * Stress that chances are, whatever software you expect on a *nix > system is available in ports I recently edited that blurb a little bit, the header originally read 'Based on BSD UNIX', which was mostly irrelevant. I stuck with the spirit of the original message, just shorted it a bit and added a node to some of our newer features > * Ease of installation: bsdinstall is new; maybe link screenshots > of it or the section in the handbook that covers installation > with bsdinstall. This has been done for a while: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/using-bsdinstall.html > * Link to PC-BSD: I'm not sure this is feasible, but the > desktop-friendly features (graphical installer, WM included, > default applications included) would definitely be more > appealing to newcomers. > > Although, I do agree: there isn't a whole lot of data, and if users > are moving on from the site after just the front page, there isn't a > whole lot we can do. Fedora [1] and Ubuntu [2] seem to be designed on > requiring at least a little bit of user curiousity: They contain > mostly the same things the freebsd.org site has, and then have a > well-designed "features" page that shows off the applications included > with the OS and also the general look and feel. > > [1] http://fedoraproject.org/en/features/ > [2] http://www.ubuntu.com/desktop > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-doc@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-doc > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-doc-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" -- Allan Jude
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