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

[Wojciech Meyer]

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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