Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2013 16:25:28 -0700 From: Derek Wood <ddwood@highdensity.org> To: Eitan Adler <lists@eitanadler.com>, doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: About FreeBSD.org visitors Message-ID: <20131010232527.GA519@yavin.local> In-Reply-To: <CAF6rxgmZL7-kagQ=Sed_cPsgwCV4YxxWTErQ0UAFbh_DpRnZ=Q@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAF6rxgmZL7-kagQ=Sed_cPsgwCV4YxxWTErQ0UAFbh_DpRnZ=Q@mail.gmail.com>
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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) 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 * Ease of installation: bsdinstall is new; maybe link screenshots of it or the section in the handbook that covers installation with bsdinstall. * 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
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