I've been on vacation, so I know I'm late to the party, but I had to jump in and say that this is great news! The new search box really is wonderful.
I wanted to see where we currently are with the bounce rate of visitors to > the portal and found some really good news on our dashboard [2]. [2] http://discovery.wmflabs.org/portal/#action_breakdown (go to Smoothing > dropdown and select Monthly Median) Even unsmoothed it's clear what's going on. Bounce and search really mirror each other—so people aren't bouncing generally *because* they are searching instead—and they have been getting closer to each other. The weird thing is that people bounce more and search less on Saturdays, though. I wonder if that's more bounces, fewer searches, or both. Trey Jones Software Engineer, Discovery Wikimedia Foundation On Fri, Mar 25, 2016 at 4:12 PM, Deborah Tankersley < [email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > While updating the Q4 goals [1] for the Wikipedia.org Portal Team today, > I wanted to see where we currently are with the bounce rate of visitors to > the portal and found some really good news on our dashboard [2]. > > Back in December 2015, we had approximately 60% of our visitors to > the portal page arrive and then leave without doing anything (bounce rate). > We also had about only 30% of the portal visitors doing a search on the > page and other actions were much lower. > > Now, as of March 22, 2016, our bounce rate is down to 44% and the searches > are up to 42%. Which is a very nice improvement (due to many explainable > and unexplainable things) and it shows that our numbers are certainly > moving in the right direction. Woohoo! > > Check out this image [3] for the pretty dashboard stats picture. :) > > > Happy Friday! > > Deb > > > [1] > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Engineering/2015-16_Q4_Goals#Wikipedia.org_Portal > [2] http://discovery.wmflabs.org/portal/#action_breakdown (go to > Smoothing dropdown and select Monthly Median) > [3] > https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bounce_Rate_for_Wikipedia_Portal_Dec_2015_-_March_2016.png > > > -- > Deb Tankersley > Product Manager, Discovery > Wikimedia Foundation > > _______________________________________________ > discovery mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/discovery > >
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