Re: GNOME Foundation Elections - Preliminary results

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

On Wed, 2005-12-14 at 23:56 +0100, Quim Gil wrote:
> Moving this message originated in foundation-list here because my answer
> would be offtopic there.
> 
> En/na Federico Mena Quintero ha escrit:
> 
> > So, www and planet *are* our most efficient vehicles for communication.
> 
> Volume is not necessarely related to efficiency. Look at the most
> visited pages in November:
> http://www.gnome.org/stats/usage_200512.html#TOPURLS
> 
> The first real page is the homepage, this is normal. But then... where
> do all these users go after hitting the homepage? Strictely in
> www.gnome.org (the "corporate" site) they go to three pages we mostly
> agree they are unnefficient:
> 
> http://www.gnome.org/start/2.12/ (missing screenshots or the visual
> tour, mentioned in the marketing and gnome-web lists)
> 
> http://www.gnome.org/about/ (being discussed in marketing, we agree that
> this page doesn't reflect what GNOME is about and needs a remake)
> 
> http://www.gnome.org/softwaremap/ (a gift of hundreds of users to
> gnome-files)
> 
> Which is weird is that the own stats page gets more hits than these.
> This fact makes me think that the whole stats may be altered by
> non-human processes.

Yeah. See my last post to foundation-list (forgot to Cc/Reply-To) here
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2005-December/msg00058.html

Taking a little different approach than above, I looked at posts
where the referrer was http://www.gnome.org/ - these are almost 
certainly legitimate, and also tell us more about navigation within
our site.

   6536 /start/2.12/
   4021 /start/stable/
   2669 /about/
    989 /friends/donors.html
    953 /support
    908 /support/
    101 /friends/
     92 /contact/

(Excluding some URLs where the reported referrer clearly wasn't the
front page ... even in the above, not all the URLS are found ...
I don't see where the hits on support/ are coming from.)

One thing is clear is that we are getting a very low yield off of
people clicking through on 'become a "Friend of GNOME"' ... while 
Friends-of-GNOME contributions are not insignificant (thanks
people!) if we got just one of the 30 people a day clicking through
from the front page to that page a day to join as a friend, we'd
be doing way better.

Of course, since Friends says basically *nothing* about what is done
with the money, it's ineffectiveness isn't very surprising.

Regards,
					Owen