Hi all,
In connection with the recent discussion with the tools guys about how to document the availability of binary toolchains, I wonder whether www.linaro.org really links to the best pages on launchpad, the wiki etc.
Keeping these in sync and coherently structured is a maintenance requirement, and we can't expect to eliminate that.
But I'm wondering whether we have some way to track:
a) HTTP requests with no Referrer b) Pages reached directly from Google or some other search facility (such as the wiki or launchpad search)
Pages reached in these ways indicate where developers are using a shortcut and visiting pages directly (I know I do this) or where the page is at least sufficiently hard to find that Google or the wiki search is more efficient (I know I do this too). If we could come up with a list of such pages and frequency of visits, this might give us some interesting information about what we really should be linking to from the main website. It might also help to flag up drift, where activity hotspots move away from the pages accessible from the website over time.
Cheers ---Dave
Hi Dave,
Have forwarded this to Michael O. We're in the middle of documenting the requirements for a refresh of www.linaro.org so these are quite timely. Feel free to contact Michael directly if you have specific changes beyond what you've already mentioned.
Joey
On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 8:15 AM, Dave Martin dave.martin@linaro.org wrote:
Hi all,
In connection with the recent discussion with the tools guys about how to document the availability of binary toolchains, I wonder whether www.linaro.org really links to the best pages on launchpad, the wiki etc.
Keeping these in sync and coherently structured is a maintenance requirement, and we can't expect to eliminate that.
But I'm wondering whether we have some way to track:
a) HTTP requests with no Referrer b) Pages reached directly from Google or some other search facility (such as the wiki or launchpad search)
Pages reached in these ways indicate where developers are using a shortcut and visiting pages directly (I know I do this) or where the page is at least sufficiently hard to find that Google or the wiki search is more efficient (I know I do this too). If we could come up with a list of such pages and frequency of visits, this might give us some interesting information about what we really should be linking to from the main website. It might also help to flag up drift, where activity hotspots move away from the pages accessible from the website over time.
Cheers ---Dave
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On 03/03/11 at 03:15pm, Dave Martin wrote:
Hi all,
In connection with the recent discussion with the tools guys about how to document the availability of binary toolchains, I wonder whether www.linaro.org really links to the best pages on launchpad, the wiki etc.
Keeping these in sync and coherently structured is a maintenance requirement, and we can't expect to eliminate that.
But I'm wondering whether we have some way to track:
a) HTTP requests with no Referrer b) Pages reached directly from Google or some other search facility (such as the wiki or launchpad search)
Yes we do, we have web analytic software on both the linaro.org website and the wiki.
Pages reached in these ways indicate where developers are using a shortcut and visiting pages directly (I know I do this) or where the page is at least sufficiently hard to find that Google or the wiki search is more efficient (I know I do this too). If we could come up with a list of such pages and frequency of visits, this might give us some interesting information about what we really should be linking to from the main website. It might also help to flag up drift, where activity hotspots move away from the pages accessible from the website over time.
Yes, the linaro.org website site should get some more love soon.
Cheers ---Dave
Regards, Jamie.
On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 4:52 PM, Jamie Bennett jamie.bennett@linaro.org wrote:
On 03/03/11 at 03:15pm, Dave Martin wrote:
Hi all,
In connection with the recent discussion with the tools guys about how to document the availability of binary toolchains, I wonder whether www.linaro.org really links to the best pages on launchpad, the wiki etc.
Keeping these in sync and coherently structured is a maintenance requirement, and we can't expect to eliminate that.
But I'm wondering whether we have some way to track:
a) HTTP requests with no Referrer b) Pages reached directly from Google or some other search facility (such as the wiki or launchpad search)
Yes we do, we have web analytic software on both the linaro.org website and the wiki.
Pages reached in these ways indicate where developers are using a shortcut and visiting pages directly (I know I do this) or where the page is at least sufficiently hard to find that Google or the wiki search is more efficient (I know I do this too). If we could come up with a list of such pages and frequency of visits, this might give us some interesting information about what we really should be linking to from the main website. It might also help to flag up drift, where activity hotspots move away from the pages accessible from the website over time.
Yes, the linaro.org website site should get some more love soon.
Cool -- just thought I should make the suggesting in case is was actually something new, but I see you're ahead of me :)
Cheers ---Dave
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