From owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 4 15:25:08 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E62B453A for ; Fri, 4 Oct 2013 15:25:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from redcommiebastard@riseup.net) Received: from mx1.riseup.net (mx1.riseup.net [198.252.153.129]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id C895923F1 for ; Fri, 4 Oct 2013 15:25:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: from fulvetta.riseup.net (fulvetta-pn.riseup.net [10.0.1.75]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "*.riseup.net", Issuer "Gandi Standard SSL CA" (not verified)) by mx1.riseup.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 0AB3A500D4 for ; Fri, 4 Oct 2013 08:18:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) (Authenticated sender: redcommiebastard@fulvetta.riseup.net) with ESMTPSA id A204A95 From: Christopher Henderson To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: About FreeBSD.org visitors Date: Fri, 04 Oct 2013 10:18:36 -0500 Message-ID: <1671041.hFc554AZvp@darkstar.site> Organization: International Socialist Organization User-Agent: KMail/4.11.1 (Linux/3.11.1-28.gfeffbf9-desktop; KDE/4.11.1; x86_64; ; ) In-Reply-To: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Virus-Scanned: clamav-milter 0.97.8 at mx1 X-Virus-Status: Clean X-BeenThere: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: FreeBSD Evangelism List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 04 Oct 2013 15:25:09 -0000 Hello Unix Fans, I'm an on again/off again BSD/Linux user. I'll spend a few years in one, then the other, etc. I'm getting the FreeBSD itch again so I visited the website. One big problem for me is that there is no obvious link from the front page listing supported hardware. I finally stumbled upon the release notes but its just a flat text file. Why not HTML? I hated having to scroll through it to find out if my wifi card is supported (Alas, it is not. But OpenBSD supports it.). That is my only real complaint. The general design hasn't changed since the 90s when I first discovered FreeBSD 3.3 but I don't see that as a bad thing. The NetBSD site was in bad need of an overhaul. I like the new look. On a final note, I have a BSD tattoo if anyone is interested. I don't know if it is appropriate to share a picture on this thread. Sincerely, ~Christopher On Thursday, October 03, 2013 11:14:48 AM Eitan Adler wrote: > Here is an overview of the people that visit FreeBSD.org: > http://people.freebsd.org/~eadler/files/Report-10.01.pdf > > Some takeaways: > > - More than half (60%) the people that come to our website leave > without going to another page (called 'bouncing'). However these > users spend more time than any other user per page. > - Non-bouncing users had an average of just over 4 pages per session > but spent about an average of 0.86/s per page. They spend most of > their time on the last page. > > From these I think we can take away that most people come looking for > something very specific. > How can we fix this? Better search maybe? Improved navigation bar? > Its up to you to work on this. > > - New users spend a lot *less* time on the site than repeat visitors. > > Do we need better advocacy data? Less text to confuse new users? Is > this trend specific to FreeBSD or is it true across the board? > > - Internet Explorer is 10% of our traffic. > > Many of ours users use Windows as there primary desktop platform. > Probably more if we include not-IE on Windows. > > What other insights do you see? > What other data might be helpful for us?