[osol-mktg] Re: [website-discuss] top-right jumble and other concerns

[Dan Price]

On Sat 17 Dec 2005 at 11:53PM, Glynn Foster wrote:
> Hey,
> 
> On Fri, 2005-12-16 at 13:43 -0800, Dan Price wrote:
> > On Fri 16 Dec 2005 at 01:42PM, Glynn Foster wrote:
> > > > ...and hopefully we'll get a plan/process in place for a light evolution 
> > > > of the site to re-arrange some links, move things up more, etc. over the 
> > > > course of the next quarter. The key is keeping the site's recognition 
> > > > value high. We don't want to do redesigns that might inconvenience 
> > > > fellow surfers...and we don't want to mess up the front page too much 
> > > > because it will wreck bookmarks --
> > > 
> > > I doubt too many people will be bookmarking the front page ;)
> > 
> > Huh?  There are 185 del.icio.us bookmarks to it alone.
> 
> Hrm, ok, that did sound rather silly. I just wonder then if we've got
> all these people bookmarking the front page, how regularly they are
> coming back to it. Should the news section be more prominent?

It makes sense to let the numbers speak for themselves.
Here they are.  All of these are from the month of December:

"Entry Pages" to the site as a whole-- in other words,
where did people come in to?

                                                Visits  %
1.      opensolaris:/os/                        37,127  33.6%
2.      opensolaris:/jive/thread.jspa           11,143  10.1%
3.      opensolaris:/os/community/brandz/       3,568   3.2%
4.      opensolaris:/os/downloads/              3,292   3.0%

"Single Page Visits" (i.e.: missed opportunities for more clicks)

                                                Visits      %
1.      opensolaris:/os/                        12,060  19.6%
2.      opensolaris:/jive/thread.jspa           9,391   15.3%
3.      opensolaris:/os/article/2005-10-14_a_comparison_of_solaris__linux__and_freebsd_kernels/
                                                2,982    4.9%
4.      opensolaris:/os/community/brandz/       2,508    4.1%
5.      opensolaris:/bugdatabase/view_bug.do    2,166    3.5%
6.      opensolaris:/os/downloads/              2,144    3.5%
7.      opensolaris:/os/blogs/                  1,233    2.0%


"ClickMap" for Home page-- in other words, what did people click
on the home page?

        Link URL                                 Instances  %
1.      www.opensolaris.org/os/announcements     1,597   3.7%
2.      cvs.opensolaris.org/source               1,586   3.7%
3.      www.opensolaris.org/os/downloads         1,479   3.4%
4.      Search Form Submit                       1,395   3.2%
5.      www.opensolaris.org/os/about             982     2.3%
6.      www.cbronline.com/article_news.asp       794     1.8%
7.      www.opensolaris.org/os/downloads/        743     1.7%
8.      www.opensolaris.org/os/downloads         493     1.1%
9.      opensolaris.org/os/announcements         465     1.1%
10.     cvs.opensolaris.org                      452     1.0%

> Ahh, yes...but there's potentially 1000's of graphic artists out there
> to be able to do a similar job [1] - another avenue for community
> contributions that don't necessarily involve code.

I fully agree, but we'd really need a site editor to drive a process
of continuous evolution.  As best I know, we don't have one at this
time.

        -dp

-- 
Daniel Price - Solaris Kernel Engineering - dp at eng.sun.com - blogs.sun.com/dp