Wow. This is fantastic, Mark - thanks to you and Hiemanshu for taking the time to go out and get a ton of data! Comments inline.

User 4
 - fedora main site
 -- "I've been able to find everything I need on the websites."

I wonder how experienced this user was. :)

User 5
 - fedora main site
 -- posibly more of a note that its based on the comercial Red Hat distro

...hm, that's a thought, if somewhat backwards - if anything, RHEL is based on Fedora, not the other way around (as I understand it, anyway) - not sure how the current way of showing the Fedora <--> Red Hat connection was chosen (it's currently in a tiny little sponsorship-note footer at the bottom of http://fedoraproject.org/) but I'm sure there's a good reason for it.

User 6
 - fedora main site
 -- if I'm new to linux and need help, do I click docs, wiki, get help, or what?

+infinity

 - get.fp.o
 -- and it lacks consistancy
 -- if you have several options, display them in a consistent manner
 -->that page has a couple different options in the middle, other
options in a different style on the right (well, i think they are
different) and then other, alternat eoptions at the bottom
 -->could it not list all the options in one consistant list,
explaining what each is, with the different download options?

Man, this person gives good, concrete feedback.

 - fedora main site
 -- and it should probably have a better link text
 -- I mean, imagine reading it; Get Fedora 11 Desktop Edition Now
INSTALLABLE LIVE CD!

YES

 -- one last thing; the layout breaks on a small viewport (4-500px wide)
 -- should have some minimal width limiter
 -- http://w-wins.com/images/brokenlayout.png

Great point - do we have any heuristics that we're evaluating our sites against, any standard tests we run for sanity? (Making sure it works on a certain list of screen sizes, a certain set of browsers, that kind of thing?)

-- if i didn't know what fedora is i wouldn't immediately know what it was

This is *incredibly* important.

-- most people who visit your site won't want a tour.  They want a
download link.

Really? I wonder if there is a good way we can empirically prove this.

--Mel

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