[osol-mktg] Updated metrics

[Derek Cicero]

Claire Giordano wrote:

> Question.  (And pls don't shoot me for asking.)  Ulf was asking if a 
> metrics page was going to be created, so this info is available on the 
> website and not just in an email thread.  I don't think Ulf was 
> commenting one way or another about whether HTML attachments are ok or 
> not.
>
> Which leads me to ask - are all attachments bad?
> Or just HTML attachments?
> What about .pdf?
> Or staroffice/openoffice attachments?
> Is .jpg ok?
>
> I ask in all seriousness.  Teresa made the same comment the other day 
> - that she had heard that some people hate .html attachments.  Which 
> made me wonder why attachments of other file formats are ok - but not 
> .html?

There is no right answer, it's just a matter of what ruffles the least 
feathers ;)

Most people consider all attachments bad, at least on mailing lists. The 
issue is that it takes up system resources and usually causes a flurry 
of "I can't open this" emails, due to how different mail readers handle 
the mime-types. The proper way to handle attachments on a list is to 
post the file somewhere and just email the URL. This is especially true 
of HTML, since it's web-ready and easily changeable, so you might was 
well link to it. As an example, if I found a typo on the metrics 
document, it would be easier to update the HTML page and send out a new 
link than to email a new page with one minor change to 100+ people. It 
also has an advantage b/c the archived mail points to the corrected 
version, but with attachments you'd have an incorrect version and a 
correct version available.

Derek

>
> Thanks in advance for explaining...  :-)

No Problem. ;)

> Claire
>
> Derek Cicero wrote:
>
>> Ulf Andreasson wrote:
>>
>>> Patrick (and maybe more Derek),
>>>
>>> Surely we should just post this as a page on opensolaris.org, right !?
>>> (having checked but not seeing a metics page .... I thought this was
>>> discussed some time ago but I can't ind that now or just a memory 
>>> loss ;)
>>
>>
>>
>> I totally agree. We should avoid ever sending HTML attachments, but I 
>> think Patrick had to leave town so he was probably in a hurry. I'll 
>> go ahead and post it.
>>
>> Derek
>>
>>>
>>> reg//ulf
>>>
>>>
>>> Patrick Finch wrote:
>>>
>>>> All,
>>>>
>>>> Here's an updated metrics report: I will start posting this on my 
>>>> blog at some stage, but right now, I'm afraid that you will have to 
>>>> suffer .html attachments.  Please do get in touch if you want to 
>>>> discuss any of this, although I speak with forked tounge: tomorrow 
>>>> I am off to Italy with my wife for our (slightly delayed) honeymoon 
>>>> - back in 2 weeks.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks especially to Derek and Jim for their help with obtaining 
>>>> the data.
>>>>
>>>> regards
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Patrick
>>>>
>>>>
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>>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> OpenSolaris Highlights as of September 23rd 2005
>>>>
>>>> Cumulative totals for the OpenSolaris project to date: 8,900+ 
>>>> Registered community members (7,900+ non-Sun, 1,000+ are Sun 
>>>> employees) 8,000+ Postings to OpenSolaris discussion groups 16,000+ 
>>>> Recorded downloads of OpenSolaris (actual is probabaly higher) 16 
>>>> Registered OpenSolaris user groups 20 Community contributions offered
>>>>  to OpenSolaris 12 Community contributions to accepted into 
>>>> OpenSolaris (Putbacks)
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Trends
>>>>
>>>> registrations downloads postings topics page views blogs For a 
>>>> definition of the weeks, see [1] <metrics_week14.1.html#footnotes>. 
>>>> *Figures are estimates because it is impossible to track the total 
>>>> volume of BitTorrent downloads. [2] <#footnotes> bugs
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Additional Data
>>>>
>>>> return to top <#pagetop>
>>>>
>>>> Site Finding Method for OpenSolaris.org Visitors
>>>>
>>>> Typed / Bookmarked Other Web Site Search Engine Since Opening Day 
>>>> 36.6% 33.0% 30.4% Week 14 30.8% 15.8% 53.4% Source Omniture
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> return to top <#pagetop>
>>>>
>>>> Domains Referring Traffic to OpenSolaris.org Since Opening Day  
>>>> Week 14 Domain % Referrals  Domain % Referrals google (all domains) 
>>>> 42.7%
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>> google (all domains) 73.3% slashdot.org 6.7%  digg.com 2.6% 
>>>> osnews.com 4.4%  yahoo.com 2.0% yahoo.com 2.6%  distrowatch.com 1.3%
>>>>  distrowatch.com 1.9%  sunfreeware.com 1.1% com.com (CNet) 1.7% 
>>>> msn.com 1.1% heise.de 1.5%  blastwave.org 0.9% berlios.de 1.4% 
>>>> wikipedia.org 0.6% barrapunto.com 1.2%  slashdot.org 0.6% 
>>>> theregister.co.uk 0.9%  osnews.com 0.6% Source Omniture
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> return to top <#pagetop>
>>>>
>>>> Location of Visitors to OpenSolaris.org Since Opening Day  Week 14 
>>>> Country % Site Visitors  Country     % Site Visitors United States 
>>>> 34.1%
>>>>  United States 39.4% Germany 6.2%  United Kingdom 5.2% Japan 5.5% 
>>>> Germany 5.2% United Kingdom 5.4%  Japan 4.6% Canda 4.0%  Canada 4.2%
>>>>  France 3.2%  France 3.0% India 2.8%  India 2.8% Italy 2.6%  Italy 
>>>> 2.8% Australia 2.4%  China 2.6% China 2.3%  Australia 2.4% Spain 2.2%
>>>>  Brazil 2.1% Brazil 2.0%  Netherlands 2.0% Netherlands 2.0%  Spain 
>>>> 1.7% Poland 1.9%  Sweden 1.6% Russia 1.6%  Poland 1.5% Sweden 1.5% 
>>>> Russia 1.0% Singapore 0.9%  Singapore 1.0% Switzerland 0.9% 
>>>> Switzerland 0.8% South Korea 0.9% South Korea 0.8% Finland 0.9% 
>>>> Finland 0.8% Source Omniture
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> return to top <#pagetop> <#pagetop> Footnotes
>>>>
>>>> 1. As Opening Day (14th June 2005) was a Tuesday, these weeks run 
>>>> Tuesday-Monday as follows:
>>>>
>>>> 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 07/25/05 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 12 08/30/05 09/05/05 13 
>>>> 09/06/05 09/12/05 14 09/13/05 09/19/05
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> 2. Figures are estimates because it is impossible to track the 
>>>> total volume of BitTorrent downloads; files downloaded from Sun 
>>>> through BitTorrent are recorded, but those files hosted by other 
>>>> parties are not recorded.  Hence, this figure probably understates 
>>>> the total number.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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