<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2013/1/18 Amir Chaudhry <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:amc79@cam.ac.uk" target="_blank">amc79@cam.ac.uk</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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 <a href="http://ocaml.org" target="_blank">ocaml.org</a> site are using Windows.<br>
</blockquote><div><br></div><div style>Well, guessing intent from stats is kind of hard. I mean, you CANNOT do that even after a long period of time. All these are just clues, you must make guess on the stats.</div><div style>
<br></div><div style>I would be deeply surprised that we got a lot of "drive-by visitors"... You cannot really end up on the front page of <a href="http://ocaml.org">ocaml.org</a> just as you will end-up on a Facebook page. The <a href="http://ocaml.org">ocaml.org</a> website doesn't really have catch all words/sentences. </div>
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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).<br>
<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div style>What do you want to mitigate ? If there are a lot of US visitors, you won't divide the number of US visitors...</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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).<br>
</blockquote><div><br></div><div style>That probably stands for general purpose web sites -- which is not the case of <a href="http://ocaml.org">ocaml.org</a>.</div><div style><br></div><div style>I would say that what is important is the number of abandonment ("sorties" in french) from the root page. In the case of "<a href="http://ocaml.org">ocaml.org</a>", 34% abandon from /, 21% goes to install, 14% goes to taste.html... I guess it shows that we have a lot of people interested enough to discover how to install OCaml... I think there is a clear intent to discover the OCaml language when going to <a href="http://ocaml.org">ocaml.org</a>.</div>
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On 18 Jan 2013, at 17:37, Sylvain Le Gall <<a href="mailto:sylvain@le-gall.net">sylvain@le-gall.net</a>> wrote:<br>
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> Just had a quick look at the stats, and there are some surprises....<br>
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> Top OS: Windows (33%), then Linux and Mac...<br>
> Top social referrer: Twitter, then Stack Overflow and G+.<br>
> Country: US (27%), France (12%)<br>
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> Here are the fact I am surprised about:<br>
> - 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)<br>
> - I was expecting to see reddit in the top social referrer and G+ far below.... this is not the case<br>
> - I was expecting to see at least France in top position here.<br>
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> Overall I am surprised by this stats. I think we should take another look in 6 months.<br>
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> 2013/1/18 Sylvain Le Gall <<a href="mailto:sylvain@le-gall.net">sylvain@le-gall.net</a>><br>
> BTW, I am planning to setup analytics as well to forge.(SOON TO 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 this stats in one place (i.e. the analytics account where <a href="http://ocaml.org" target="_blank">ocaml.org</a> is already hosted).<br>
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> 2013/1/18 Thomas Gazagnaire <<a href="mailto:thomas.gazagnaire@gmail.com">thomas.gazagnaire@gmail.com</a>><br>
> > Comes up 2nd for me, right after the wikipedia page (3rd if you count the Jane Street add at the top).<br>
> > 4th-7th are INRIA sites, 8th is Jane Street's OCaml page, 9th is the OCaml Labs homepage and 10th is Planet OCaml.<br>
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> > 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).<br>
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> > Traffic stats would be interesting but even more so would be how people currently find their way to <a href="http://ocaml.org" target="_blank">ocaml.org</a> and which pages they land on. I'm curious to know the ratio of direct visits (typing <a href="http://ocaml.org" target="_blank">ocaml.org</a> into the browser) vs people who follow links. Of those that follow links, who are the referrers.<br>
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> We have set-up google analytics for <a href="http://ocaml.org" target="_blank">ocaml.org</a>, I'm happy to give access to the stats to anyone interested (I don't know if it's easy to export the data).<br>
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> Thomas<br>
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> > On 18 Jan 2013, at 15:26, Sylvain Le Gall <<a href="mailto:sylvain@le-gall.net">sylvain@le-gall.net</a>> wrote:<br>
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> >> Hi,<br>
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> >> Just want to drop a mail to say that <a href="http://ocaml.org" target="_blank">ocaml.org</a> is now on first page<br>
> >> <a href="http://www.google.com/#q=ocaml" target="_blank">http://www.google.com/#q=ocaml</a><br>
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> >> It is the 4th entry after <a href="http://caml.inria.fr" target="_blank">caml.inria.fr</a> and wikipedia.<br>
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> >> This is VERY good (never achieved this with the forge). It is the same for bing.<br>
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> >> Ashish do you have some Google Analytics setup to track the number of visitors ? I would be very interested to see the traffic.<br>
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> >> Regards<br>
> >> Sylvain<br>
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