From owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 3 20:32:43 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: doc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0F6DF67E for ; Thu, 3 Oct 2013 20:32:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lists@eitanadler.com) Received: from mail-pb0-x232.google.com (mail-pb0-x232.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:400e:c01::232]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id D9B982DD8 for ; Thu, 3 Oct 2013 20:32:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-pb0-f50.google.com with SMTP id uo5so2963051pbc.23 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=CrhDMg8cQeZ2/nNajrmxr6ndkqaI6Y35l5/absvNKSaqAHLMu/o0nBItAutFAFUEzJ PKjN05yxw7QeBcKjutPSlMV9tIG4QfBCROYgIgoWFmWZM2agSjg+/gy4AaNLoXtWHpXz QD7SSCl27WL97JzeWWC3NvE7jjX8yft5QLkPjgOILu7PnuEeSJ1cLvj6cklhyNev5OHD IEUm3QcNzwVZHC5tiHLRPu6/tM4sAN9VM51vVbJn780erW+1TRXdVY53sZqLjtfZwb+U WQ8fyQlLqG9LzzIOPFXvsD5XGf0z5o3+2q0xlQ2ZxjY9aDsCH35jtkOvA/udhwr7v4AR Theg== X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQnLAIOwLfn7kWmGZb8yFnIftyhXTc0myyCo9vEG/oHhik9XZZ/klK2rmMahmzcC/XUTlMyl 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-doc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Documentation project 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