Thanks for organizing this... I hope to see the wiki heatmap soon as well.
On Sep 1, 2008, at 10:55 AM, Owen Winkler wrote: > > I recently added a couple of habariproject.org sites to CrazyEgg, a > service that helps show how a site is being used. You can see a > screenshot of some of the results here: > http://pastoid.com/43+ > > I've added some questions to that image, but I'll rephrase them here > so > we can start a discussion. > > The demo link is by far the most clicked thing on the hp.o page. What > can we do to make sure the demo is showing the best Habari has to > offer? I suggest we install some other plugins, to show off the versatility of Habari. As I have suggested before, I think the demo would be a great place to put the "tour" which I built. It's packaged up as a plugin and ready to go, as soon as someone wants to put it on the demo. > People are heading for the documentation frequently. I have added > CrazyEgg to the wiki home page to see what's being used there. The > results of that so far are interesting, and might lead to a > significant > but useful reorganization of the topics on that page. > > Our community links are not being hit. We're at the mercy of our > visitors here, being that what we want to tell them ("The Habari > community is the major thing that makes Habari unique, you'll like it, > join us") is not what they care to find out when visiting our page. > What can we do to make that appealing to them? Is there anything? > Should we do anything? To be honest, I don't think we're going to be able to get people just looking casually at Habari to care much about the community. The lean code, nice design, and powerful plugins (aka. features) are what we need to draw people into Habari. The community is what keeps them involved and excited. Most people don't care much about a community until they're involved in it... so that's the first step: get them involved. > One statistic that doesn't appear in the screenshot is the referrer > statistic. All but two searches for Habari that resulted in > arriving at > the home page were for the term "habari". Nobody who searched for > Habari on their own clicked on the community link. I found that > interesting. > > The Monolith link in the sidebar is getting a good number of > clicks. My > guess as to why this is is because Mike switched and linked to the > site, > and those folks are interested in design. They want to see what > Monolith looks like. Unfortunately, the Monolith link points to the > interface guidelines, and has no images. My thought to correct this > (and I was asking for this last night) was a set of thumbnails we > could > put along the bottom of the screencast to replace the sentence about > screenshots and screencasts. I'm not sure what sort of page they > would > link to yet, but they should probably have screenshots on them. I too second the idea of creating a "gallery" page, with screencasts and possibly images. As a quick fix, we should put Mike's walkthrough up and link to that. > Finally, we tell people in a bold headline that "Habari is different", > and we apparently have technical reasons to say so. Miraculously, > people are interested in that, based on the clicks to that link. > Right > now, the link points to a somewhat cheeky FAQ question that talks > about > "eleventy billion other blog packages". Based on the traffic to this > link, we might consider a dedicated page that talks more in-depth > about > those technical differences. Agreed. We need some better reasons of why Habari is different. More than that, we also need some non-technical reasons (features). I worked on a feature carousel a while back which would help to highlight this. Could we try to get that integrated? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/habari-dev -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
