From owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 3 15:24:30 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@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 7D711428; Thu, 3 Oct 2013 15:24:30 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from royce.williams@gmail.com) Received: from mail-lb0-x22e.google.com (mail-lb0-x22e.google.com [IPv6:2a00:1450:4010:c04::22e]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id D3A342B52; Thu, 3 Oct 2013 15:24:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-lb0-f174.google.com with SMTP id w6so2133375lbh.5 for ; Thu, 03 Oct 2013 08:24:27 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id :subject:to:cc:content-type; bh=wN7l248pFC2hcZROOEVRz/1p6hTCV5rfi5FOhgyysDA=; b=JujfMZZKb1I12eSz3TFemd5diamPqNGNeEqTd3CTq7XiOkpsPc3R2AHQblW8rUcujO +VdNoCj+eojXEAeb+eqXnWhajLJTq5KtzxQ1DbqjfTXYC0FYReat8xiaHHs1VTZaUi0t 0WJvPRk7LVz38qy7+BS2F5K5iyiKxC/OLYx9Utz8FnYNK2qfYYH7GBlq2UBFLr0ALxcg cJkA8JFujhv17FzpfZcWXg2mvkHDddoih/pZHt4KtczEPh4Q0SeYVP3rrVwFivaGcUvV j1cc5Ela88ZWLNG22R+wF1JX1BuFbBo2gHQ55rX2TopEy28SMbpT2GTnRTFcFK+DPU0X vYJQ== X-Received: by 10.112.14.102 with SMTP id o6mr7336438lbc.28.1380813867834; Thu, 03 Oct 2013 08:24:27 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: royce.williams@gmail.com Received: by 10.112.138.227 with HTTP; Thu, 3 Oct 2013 08:24:07 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: From: Royce Williams Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2013 07:24:07 -0800 X-Google-Sender-Auth: DGlqvyv54qRlSrGKMKU8lH3yEIE Message-ID: Subject: Re: About FreeBSD.org visitors To: Eitan Adler Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 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 15:24:30 -0000 On Thu, Oct 3, 2013 at 7:14 AM, 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. 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