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.<div>
<br></div><div>We have a google account "ocamlwebsite" dedicated for official <a href="http://ocaml.org">ocaml.org</a> purposes [1]. We should use it for all google products like youtube, analytics, etc.</div><div>
<br></div><div>[1] <a href="https://github.com/ocaml/ocaml.org/wiki/Assets">https://github.com/ocaml/ocaml.org/wiki/Assets</a></div><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 2:45 PM, Amir Chaudhry <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:amc79@cam.ac.uk" target="_blank">amc79@cam.ac.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div>Welcome to the world of 'personalised search'. <br><br><div style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:medium">
Best wishes,</div><div style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:medium">Amir</div><div style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:medium"><br></div><div style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:medium">--<br>sent via mobile</div>
</div><div><div class="h5"><div><br>On 18 Jan 2013, at 19:24, Wojciech Meyer <<a href="mailto:wojciech.meyer@gmail.com" target="_blank">wojciech.meyer@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div>
<span>I want to add, that google might customise the search to according to</span><br><span>various properties of the client. Currently on my machine at home (now)</span><br><span><a href="http://ocaml.org" target="_blank">ocaml.org</a> is winning - strangely at work it was as reported just after</span><br>
<span>the wikipedia article but no longer as for today. (<a href="http://google.com" target="_blank">google.com</a> -> <a href="http://google.co.uk" target="_blank">google.co.uk</a>).</span><br><span></span><br><span>Amir Chaudhry <<a href="mailto:amc79@cam.ac.uk" target="_blank">amc79@cam.ac.uk</a>> writes:</span><br>
<span></span><br><blockquote type="cite"><span>I'd be wary of drawing too many conclusion from this just yet.</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>There's no testing going on regarding intent so those could be</span><br>
</blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>anything from casual drive-by visitors to hard-core users. All we can</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>say is that 1/3rd of visitors to the <a href="http://ocaml.org" target="_blank">ocaml.org</a> site are using Windows.</span><br>
</blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>Also bear in mind that stats like this might be skewed by population</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>size. It doesn't surprise me at all that there are a lot of US</span><br>
</blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>visitors. Having said that, I don't know what Google Analytics does</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>in the background to mitigate this (if at all).</span><br>
</blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>Anecdote: One of the things a startup friend told me is that when your</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>browser visits start matching the ratio of overall browser market</span><br>
</blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>share, then you can consider yourself as breaking out of the</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>echo-chamber'. This used to mean going from Firefox-heavy traffic to</span><br>
</blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>IE-heavy traffic (Chrome may have changed things since then).</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>Amir</span><br>
</blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>On 18 Jan 2013, at 17:37, Sylvain Le Gall <<a href="mailto:sylvain@le-gall.net" target="_blank">sylvain@le-gall.net</a>> wrote:</span><br>
</blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>Just had a quick look at the stats, and there are some surprises....</span><br></blockquote></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>Top OS: Windows (33%), then Linux and Mac...</span><br></blockquote></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>Top social referrer: Twitter, then Stack Overflow and G+.</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>Country: US (27%), France (12%)</span><br>
</blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>Here are the fact I am surprised about:</span><br>
</blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>- people seems to think that the OCaml community is UNIX</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">
<span>centric... seems to be not that true (at least 1/3 are not using</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>UNIX based system)</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">
<blockquote type="cite"><span>- I was expecting to see reddit in the top social referrer and G+ far below.... this is not the case</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>- I was expecting to see at least France in top position here.</span><br>
</blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>Overall I am surprised by this stats. I think we should take another look in 6 months.</span><br>
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<blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>2013/1/18 Sylvain Le Gall <<a href="mailto:sylvain@le-gall.net" target="_blank">sylvain@le-gall.net</a>></span><br>
</blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>BTW, I am planning to setup analytics as well to forge.(SOON TO</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">
<span>BE).<a href="http://ocaml.org" target="_blank">ocaml.org</a> and <a href="http://planet.ocaml.org" target="_blank">planet.ocaml.org</a>, maybe it makes sense to have all</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">
<blockquote type="cite"><span>this stats in one place (i.e. the analytics account where <a href="http://ocaml.org" target="_blank">ocaml.org</a></span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">
<span>is already hosted).</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote>
</blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>2013/1/18 Thomas Gazagnaire <<a href="mailto:thomas.gazagnaire@gmail.com" target="_blank">thomas.gazagnaire@gmail.com</a>></span><br></blockquote></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>Comes up 2nd for me, right after the wikipedia page (3rd if you count the Jane Street add at the top).</span><br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>4th-7th are INRIA sites, 8th is Jane Street's OCaml page, 9th is the OCaml Labs homepage and 10th is Planet OCaml.</span><br></blockquote>
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</blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>Also, <a href="http://google.com" target="_blank">google.com</a> redirects me to <a href="http://google.co.uk" target="_blank">google.co.uk</a> (seems I can't choose anymore).</span><br>
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<span>Traffic stats would be interesting but even more so would be how</span><br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>people currently find their way to <a href="http://ocaml.org" target="_blank">ocaml.org</a> and which pages they</span><br>
</blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>land on. I'm curious to know the ratio of direct visits (typing</span><br></blockquote></blockquote>
</blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span><a href="http://ocaml.org" target="_blank">ocaml.org</a> into the browser) vs people who follow links. Of those</span><br></blockquote>
</blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>that follow links, who are the referrers.</span><br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">
<span></span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>We have set-up google analytics for <a href="http://ocaml.org" target="_blank">ocaml.org</a>, I'm happy to give</span><br>
</blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>access to the stats to anyone interested (I don't know if it's easy</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">
<span>to export the data).</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>Thomas</span><br>
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</blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>On 18 Jan 2013, at 15:26, Sylvain Le Gall <<a href="mailto:sylvain@le-gall.net" target="_blank">sylvain@le-gall.net</a>> wrote:</span><br>
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<blockquote type="cite"><span>Hi,</span><br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote>
</blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>Just want to drop a mail to say that <a href="http://ocaml.org" target="_blank">ocaml.org</a> is now on first page</span><br>
</blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span><a href="http://www.google.com/#q=ocaml" target="_blank">http://www.google.com/#q=ocaml</a></span><br>
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<blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>It is the 4th entry after <a href="http://caml.inria.fr" target="_blank">caml.inria.fr</a> and wikipedia.</span><br></blockquote></blockquote>
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<blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>This is VERY good (never achieved this with the forge). It is the same for bing.</span><br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">
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<span>Ashish do you have some Google Analytics setup to track the number of visitors ? I would be very interested to see the traffic.</span><br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">
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<blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>Regards</span><br>
</blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>Sylvain</span><br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote>
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