[osol-mktg] Volumes of Community Activity - Update

[patrick finch]

All,

Some updated volumes of activity in the OpenSolaris community.
If anyone has any questions about this, or other things they're
interested in seeing, do get in touch!  I'll be updating in 2 weeks' time.

regards

Patrick


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
10	08/16/05-08/22/05	
11	08/23/05-08/29/05



*OpenSolaris.org page views*

Week	Page Views
1	1,048,077
2	227,411
3	147,137
4	140,316
5	135,933
6	135,601
7	143,687
8	127,403
9	119,030
10	148,871
11	123,244

- over 2 and a half million page views


			
*Non-Sun registrations to OpenSolaris.org since Opening Day*

Week	Registrations
1	5,423
2	469
3	184
4	150
5	122
6	111
7	214
8	107
9	100
10	117
11	88
			
- there are now 8,600 total registered users of whom 987 are Sun
employees, and 7,613 are external to Sun

			

*New postings to discussion groups*

Week	Postings	
1	1145
2	674
3	520
4	494
5	756
6	511
7	491
8	444
9	476
10	597
11	595
	
- 6,703 total postings

		

*OpenSolaris Blogs*

Week	Entries		Bloggers
1	324		150
2	140		40
3	99		37
4	86		29
5	85		37
6	84		31
7	99		36
8	114		41
9	73		38
10	77		39
11	99		38
		
-a total of 1,280 blog entries.


			
*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		
10	774,000
11	848,000
			
-results pre-launch: 69,000



*Top referring domains to OpenSolaris.org - Since Opening Day*

Domain			Traffic
google (all domains)	34.60%
slashdot.org 		8.00%
osnews.com 		5.10%
yahoo.com 		2.90%
distrowatch.com 	2.10%
com.com (CNet)		2.00%
heise.de 		1.70%
berlios.de 		1.60%
barrapunto.com 		1.40%
theregister.co.uk	1.00%


*Top referring domains to OpenSolaris.org - Last Week*

Domain			Traffic
google.com  		74.00%
linuxfr.org 		1.90%
osnews.com 		1.50%
theregister.co.uk 	1.20%
yahoo.com 		1.00%
msn.com 		1.00%
sunfreeware.com 	0.90%
pro-linux.de 		0.80%
wikipedia.org 		0.70%
style.net 		0.50%



*Finding methods - Since Opening*

Typed/Bookmarked  	37.5%
Other Web Sites 	35.7%
Search Engines 		26.7%

*Finding methods - Last Week*

Search Engines  	52.9%
Typed/Bookmarked 	31.6%
Other Web Sites 	15.4%

-the proportion of traffic arrriving at OpenSolaris.org from serch
engines is increasing



*Site visitors by country since Opening Day*

Country			Visitors
United States 		33.4%
Germany 		6.3%
Japan 			5.6%
United Kingdom 		5.4%
Canada 			4.0%
France 			3.2%
India 			2.8%
Italy 			2.6%
Australia 		2.4%
Spain 			2.3%
China 			2.2%
Brazil 			2.0%
Poland 			2.0%
Netherlands 		1.9%
Russian Federation 	1.7%
Sweden 			1.5%
Finland 		0.9%
Switzerland 		0.9%
Singapore 		0.9%
Belgium 		0.9%



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