[ocaml-infra] ocaml.org on 1st page of google query for ocaml.

[Ashish Agarwal]

This is great. And some of you may remember a certain page, which I won't
name, but was negative about OCaml, that used to annoyingly come out on the
first page. It's way down the list now. A few days ago I checked and had to
go to the 18th page of results before it showed up.

We have a google account "ocamlwebsite" dedicated for official
ocaml.orgpurposes [1]. We should use it for all google products like
youtube,
analytics, etc.

[1] https://github.com/ocaml/ocaml.org/wiki/Assets


On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 2:45 PM, Amir Chaudhry <amc79 at cam.ac.uk> wrote:

> Welcome to the world of 'personalised search'.
>
> Best wishes,
> Amir
>
> --
> sent via mobile
>
> On 18 Jan 2013, at 19:24, Wojciech Meyer <wojciech.meyer at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I want to add, that google might customise the search to according to
> various properties of the client. Currently on my machine at home (now)
> ocaml.org is winning - strangely at work it was as reported just after
> the wikipedia article but no longer as for today. (google.com ->
> google.co.uk).
>
> Amir Chaudhry <amc79 at cam.ac.uk> writes:
>
> I'd be wary of drawing too many conclusion from this just yet.
>
> There's no testing going on regarding intent so those could be
>
> anything from casual drive-by visitors to hard-core users.  All we can
>
> say is that 1/3rd of visitors to the ocaml.org site are using Windows.
>
>
> Also bear in mind that stats like this might be skewed by population
>
> size.  It doesn't surprise me at all that there are a lot of US
>
> visitors.  Having said that, I don't know what Google Analytics does
>
> in the background to mitigate this (if at all).
>
>
> Anecdote: One of the things a startup friend told me is that when your
>
> browser visits start matching the ratio of overall browser market
>
> share, then you can consider yourself as breaking out of the
>
> echo-chamber'.  This used to mean going from Firefox-heavy traffic to
>
> IE-heavy traffic (Chrome may have changed things since then).
>
>
> Amir
>
>
> On 18 Jan 2013, at 17:37, Sylvain Le Gall <sylvain at le-gall.net> wrote:
>
>
> Just had a quick look at the stats, and there are some surprises....
>
>
> Top OS: Windows (33%), then Linux and Mac...
>
> Top social referrer: Twitter, then Stack Overflow and G+.
>
> Country: US (27%), France (12%)
>
>
> Here are the fact I am surprised about:
>
> - people seems to think that the OCaml community is UNIX
>
> centric... seems to be not that true (at least 1/3 are not using
>
> UNIX based system)
>
> - I was expecting to see reddit in the top social referrer and G+ far
> below.... this is not the case
>
> - I was expecting to see at least France in top position here.
>
>
> Overall I am surprised by this stats. I think we should take another look
> in 6 months.
>
>
>
>
> 2013/1/18 Sylvain Le Gall <sylvain at le-gall.net>
>
> BTW, I am planning to setup analytics as well to forge.(SOON TO
>
> BE).ocaml.org and planet.ocaml.org, maybe it makes sense to have all
>
> this stats in one place (i.e. the analytics account where ocaml.org
>
> is already hosted).
>
>
>
> 2013/1/18 Thomas Gazagnaire <thomas.gazagnaire at gmail.com>
>
> Comes up 2nd for me, right after the wikipedia page (3rd if you count the
> Jane Street add at the top).
>
> 4th-7th are INRIA sites, 8th is Jane Street's OCaml page, 9th is the OCaml
> Labs homepage and 10th is Planet OCaml.
>
>
> Also, google.com redirects me to google.co.uk (seems I can't choose
> anymore).
>
>
> Traffic stats would be interesting but even more so would be how
>
> people currently find their way to ocaml.org and which pages they
>
> land on.  I'm curious to know the ratio of direct visits (typing
>
> ocaml.org into the browser) vs people who follow links.  Of those
>
> that follow links, who are the referrers.
>
>
> We have set-up google analytics for ocaml.org, I'm happy to give
>
> access to the stats to anyone interested (I don't know if it's easy
>
> to export the data).
>
>
> Thomas
>
>
>
>
> ac
>
>
> On 18 Jan 2013, at 15:26, Sylvain Le Gall <sylvain at le-gall.net> wrote:
>
>
> Hi,
>
>
> Just want to drop a mail to say that ocaml.org is now on first page
>
> http://www.google.com/#q=ocaml
>
>
> It is the 4th entry after caml.inria.fr and wikipedia.
>
>
> This is VERY good (never achieved this with the forge). It is the same for
> bing.
>
>
> Ashish do you have some Google Analytics setup to track the number of
> visitors ? I would be very interested to see the traffic.
>
>
> Regards
>
> Sylvain
>
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