On Tuesday 13 May 2008 19:45, Ian Clarke wrote: > On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 12:59 PM, Matthew Toseland > <toad at amphibian.dyndns.org> wrote: > > As nextgens pointed out recently, our current website has a 40% conversion > > rate - that is, 40% of our unique visitors downloaded Freenet. > > Firstly, I don't buy that stat, and secondly, the inference you draw > from it is wrong. > > I don't buy the stat because: > > 40% of visitors view the download page (according to Google > Analytics), that doesn't mean 40% of visitors downloaded Freenet, or > really understood what it was when they clicked on this. I think a lot > of people just habitually click on "Download" when they see it.
Fair point. Nextgens, can you get us a statistic on the number who actually downloaded new_installer.jar ?? > > > Given the > > level of political baggage and technicality that Freenet inevitably comes > > with, that suggests that the website is not the biggest problem facing us. > > No? > > No. I definitely don't think you can conclude that the website isn't > a problem from this statistic. I mean, just look at it, its a mass of > text, with a menu the length of the Amazon river. I've personally had > many experiences of people not having a clue what Freenet was, nor > trying it out, even after viewing the website. Because Freenet's start page is a blog, which doesn't contain any content that would be relevant to a newbie? > > I've even had experiences of people raving about how great Freenet > was, but later admitting that they hadn't even tried it. Something is > wrong when people can be excited by something, yet not even test it. That's not uncommon in all walks of life! > > > IMHO the bigger problem is user retention. And how do we get better user > > retention? > > - More content. > > - Better performance. > > - A usable chat client. (Whether or not we choose to spend project resources > > on this, IMHO it will result in higher user retention). > > All important, but the website is also important. > > Ian. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/devl/attachments/20080513/7d9f7c92/attachment.pgp>
