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

[Sylvain Le Gall]

2013/1/18 Amir Chaudhry <amc79 at cam.ac.uk>

> 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.
>

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.

I would be deeply surprised that we got a lot of "drive-by visitors"... You
cannot really end up on the front page of ocaml.org just as you will end-up
on a Facebook page. The ocaml.org website doesn't really have catch all
words/sentences.


> 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).
>
>
What do you want to mitigate ? If there are a lot of US visitors, you won't
divide the number of US visitors...


> 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).
>

That probably stands for general purpose web sites -- which is not the case
of ocaml.org.

I would say that what is important is the number of abandonment ("sorties"
in french) from the root page. In the case of "ocaml.org", 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 ocaml.org.


>
> 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.orginto 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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