[osol-mktg] OpenSolaris community activity - some volumes

[patrick finch]

All,

For those interested, some measurements of the last 2 months' activity
on OpenSolaris.org.

Weeks are defined as follows (Opening Day was a Tuesday, hence weeks run
Tuesday-Monday!)

Week	Start-End
1 	06/14/05-06/20/05
2 	06/21/05-06/27/05
3 	06/28/05-07/04/05
4 	07/05/05-07/11/05
5 	07/12/05-07/18/05
6 	07/19/05-07/25/05
7 	07/26/05-08/01/05
8 	08/02/05-08/08/05
9 	08/09/05-08/15/05


OpenSolaris.org page views			
--------------------------			
Week	Page Views	Cumulative	
1	1,048,077	1,048,077	
2	227,411		1,275,488	
3	147,137		1,422,625	
4	140,316		1,562,941	
5	135,933		1,698,874	
6	135,601		1,834,475	
7	143,687		1,978,162	
8	127,403		2,105,565	
9	119,030		2,224,595	

(Now over 2 and a quarter million page views)

			
Non-Sun registrations to OpenSolaris.org			
----------------------------------------
Week	Registrations	Cum.	
1	5,423		5,423	
2	469		5,892	
3	184		6,076	
4	150		6,226	
5	122		6,348	
6	111		6,459	
7	214		6,673	
8	107		6,780	
9	100		6,880	
			
(8,357 total registered users, 964 are Sun employees, 7,393 are external
to Sun, 1,477 users registered before opening)

			
New postings to discussion groups
---------------------------------
Week	Postings	Cum.
1	1,145		1,145	
2	674		1,819	
3	520		2,339	
4	494		2,833	
5	756		3,589	
6	511		4,100	
7	491		4,591	
8	444		5,035	
9	476		5,511	
			
			
OpenSolaris blogs			
-----------------			
Week	Entries	Cum.	Bloggers
1	324	324	150
2	140	464	40
3	99	563	37
4	86	649	29
5	85	734	37
6	84	818	31
7	99	917	36
8	114	1,031	41
9	73	1,104	38
			
			
Google.com results for “OpenSolaris”
------------------------------------
Week	Results		
1	1,400,000		
2	1,600,000		
3	978,000		
4	872,000		
5	855,000		
6	817,000		
7	804,000		
8	1,140,000		
9	779,000		
			
(Results pre-launch: 69,000)


Top referring domains to OpenSolaris.org
----------------------------------------
Domain			Traffic
google (all domains)  	31.50%
slashdot.org 		9.30%
osnews.com 		4.70%
yahoo.com 		3.20%
distrowatch.com 	2.40%
com.com (CNet)		2.30%
heise.de 		2.00%
berlios.de 		1.80%
barrapunto.com 		1.70%
kde.org 		0.90%

(NB.nearly 40% of visits are bookmarked/typed URLs, so the above
represents 60% of visitors)


Site visitors by country
-----------------------
Country			Visitors
United States  		33.20%
Germany 		6.40%
Japan 			5.80%
United Kingdom 		5.30%
Canada 			4.00%
France 			2.80%
India 			2.80%
Italy 			2.60%
Australia 		2.40%
Spain 			2.40%
China 			2.20%
Brazil 			2.00%
Poland 			2.00%
Netherlands 		2.00%
Russian Federation	1.70%
Sweden 			1.50%
Finland 		0.90%
Switzerland 		0.90%
Korea - South 		0.90%
Czech Republic 		0.90%


I'm interested to know if there are specific measurements folks are
interested in.  I'm looking into finding a place on the site to record
this (and other) data long-term.  Any input is, of course, welcome!

regards

Patrick
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