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

[Amir Chaudhry]

Welcome to the world of 'personalised search'. 

Best wishes,
Amir

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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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