[osol-mktg] Updated metrics

Mon Sep 26 15:55:54 PDT 2005

nice job Derek...

Derek Cicero wrote On 09/26/05 15:53,:
> Claire Giordano wrote:
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> 
>>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:
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>>
>>>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
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>-- This email has been verified as Virus free Virus Protection and 
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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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