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

[Amir Chaudhry]

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. 
> 
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> 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).
> 
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> 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
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> > ac
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> > 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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