[website-discuss] Web site improvements

Stephen Harpster Stephen.Harpster at Sun.COM
Thu Sep 14 23:52:02 PDT 2006


Not sure why you want this data.  It's interesting but could be 
misleading.  China may be #10 because the front page is only in English, 
i.e., translating opensolaris.org's front page to Chinese first may lead 
to a huge return.  Whereas most Germans (#2) can read English, I'm not 
sure that most Japanese or Chinese can.......


Derek Cicero wrote:
> Additional info below.
>
>>>> The last point, non-English speakers, is one of the most important 
>>>> ones.
>>>> <a href="https://lg3d.dev.java.net/">Project Looking Glass</a> does 
>>>> a great job of this. On the right hand side of the front page is 
>>>> list of languages. Pick the one you want and you're given a start 
>>>> page in that language.
>>>>
>>>> Not every page is translated, and that's ok. The translations come 
>>>> from the community and pages are translated as needed. Again, 
>>>> perfectly fine.
>>>
>>>
>>> Agreed. We have been discussing doing something similar to the 
>>> netbeans model. The present plan is start with one country (probably 
>>> Japan b/c Jim is able to coordinate) and then roll out translated 
>>> landing pages for each of these languages:
>>>
>>> Chinese - simplified
>>> Chinese - traditional
>>> Czech
>>> Portuguese
>>> German
>>> Spanish
>>> French
>>> Italian
>>> Japanese
>>> Russian
>>>
>>> The landing page can then take folks to OS user groups or localized 
>>> sites.
>>
> As part of the development of the landing page templates, we wanted to 
> pull the numbers for the most popular pages and then see how that list 
> changes by locale. We ran some numbers on visits and page views by 
> locale for Japan and China. I figured these stats would be of value as 
> we decide what areas to tackle first.
>
> Here is the break down of the the top visitors by country, the current 
> "featured" pages, the top pages overall and the top pages by country 
> breakdown.
>
> - All stats are from 01/01/06 thru 09/12/06.
>
> /Visitor Break Down By Country/
>
> [Total Visitors: 1,439,619]
>
> 1.  United States     531,671 36.9%
> 2.  Germany            96,992  6.7%
> 3.  United Kingdom     88,532  6.1%
> 4.  Japan              69,221  4.8%
> 5.  Canada             53,774  3.7%
> 6.  France             46,703  3.2%
> 7.  India              45,737  3.2%
> 8.  Australia          33,347  2.3%
> 9.  Netherlands        32,090  2.2%
> 10. China              31,885  2.2%
> 11. Italy              31,550  2.2%
> 12. Sweden             23,682  1.6%
> 13. Spain              22,913  1.6%
> 14. Poland             22,360  1.6%
> 15. Russian Federation 20,397  1.4%
> 16. Brazil             19,438  1.4%
> 17. Switzerland        16,078  1.1%
> 18. Singapore          15,997  1.1%
> 19. Korea - South      12,084  0.8%
> 20. Belgium            12,078  0.8%
>
> /Featured Pages/
>
> - These are pages with are currently featured either in the main body 
> of the home page or in the right side callouts.
>
> Main Body
> - Project Overview
> - Roadmap
> - Discussions
> - Announce (Subscription)
> - Announce (Forum)
> - OpenSolaris Discuss (Forum)
> - Communities Home Page
> - Nevada Home Page
> - Projects Home Page
> - Downloads
> - Source Browser
> - OpenGrok Community
>
> Right Side Callouts
> - Code Contributions
> - Community Stats
> - OpenSolaris Discuss (Forum)
> - Buttons & Banners
>
> /Top Pages Overall/
>
> 1.  Discussions (All Threads)  721,848 10.2%
> 2.  Home Page                  661,797  9.4%
> 3.  Discussions (All Forums)   446,800  6.3%
> 4.  Search                     312,320  4.4%
> 5.  Downloads                  280,725  4.0%
> 6.  Bug Database - View        160,716  2.3%
> 7.  Downloads - ON             129,663  1.8%
> 8.  Source Browser             124,187  1.8%
> 9.  Blogs                      108,108  1.5%
> 10. Source Browser             100,963  1.4%
> 11. OpenSolaris Search          98,033  1.4%
> 12. Community: ZFS              77,125  1.1%
> 13. Community Overview          75,753  1.1%
> 14. Discussions (Home Page)     73,982  1.0%
> 15. Bug Database - Search       68,677  1.0%
> 16. Discussions (Search)        62,684  0.9%
> 17. Projects Home Page          57,425  0.8%
> 18. About                       52,041  0.7%
> 19. Announcements               50,857  0.7%
> 20. Discussions (Home Page)     41,644  0.6%
>
>
> /Top Pages By Country = Japan/
>
> [Total Page Views: 430,352]
>
> 1.  Home Page                  43,862 10.2%
> 2.  Search                     26,492  6.2%
> 3.  Discussions (All Threads)  19,582  4.6%
> 4.  Downloads                  19,488  4.5%
> 5.  Discussions (All Forums)   17,375  4.1%
> 6.  Bug Database - View        17,327  4.0%
> 7.  Bug Database - Search      14,563  3.4%
> 8.  Downloads - ON             12,769  3.0%
> 9.  Source Browser              9,554  2.2%
> 10. Bug Database - Home         8,947  2.1%
> 11. Source Browser              8,437  2.0%
> 12. Unspecified                 6,754  1.6%
> 13. OpenSolaris Search          5,062  1.2%
> 14. Community: Int/Lcl JA Group 4,205  1.0%
> 15. Community: ZFS              4,004  0.9%
> 16. Community Overview          3,721  0.9%
> 17. Discussions (Home Page)     3,439  0.8%
> 18. Announcements               2,928  0.7%
> 19. Community: Nevada           2,603  0.6%
> 20. Forums - Search             2,398  0.6%
>
> /Top Pages By Country = China/
>
> [Total Page Views: 185,449]
>
> 1.  Home Page                  14,064 7.6%
> 2.  Search                     11,880 6.4%
> 3.  Discussions (All Threads)  10,098 5.4%
> 4.  Discussions (All Forums)    7,070 3.8%
> 5.  Downloads                   6,934 3.7%
> 6.  Source Browser              6,123 3.3%
> 7.  Source Browser              5,375 2.9%
> 8.  Downloads - ON              3,744 2.0%
> 9.  Unspecified                 2,398 1.3%
> 10. Bug Database - View         1,959 1.1%
> 11. Source Browser - ON Main    1,751 0.9%
> 12. Community Overview          1,627 0.9%
> 13. OpenSolaris Search          1,493 0.8%
> 14. Discussions (Home Page)     1,286 0.7%
> 15. Source Browser
>   [/on/usr/src/cmd/]           1,246 0.7%
> 16. Community: Chinese Users    1,224 0.7%
> 17. Community: Sun Studio Tools 1,202 0.6%
> 18. Source Browser
>   [/on/usr/src/uts/]           1,129 0.6%
> 19. Source Browser
>   [/on/usr/src/uts/common/]    1,089 0.6%
> 20. Projects Home Page          1,087 0.6%
>
>
> Derek
>
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