On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 10:21 AM, Samer Mansour <[email protected]> wrote:
> The experiment ran and the data was collected over two weeks. The results
> of the experiment were pretty close, the design where the "share" icons
> were not in any section and hovering on white space did not do well. The
> experiment suggests the design with the new section provided the most
> clicks per visit.
>
> http://www.openoffice.org/download/test4-new-section-passthru.html
>

Right.  It was very close to the subgreen choice, but the new section
one was slightly better and was also more consistent (lower standard
deviation).

> I think this will be the new page, based purely on the findings. I would
> have to confirm with Rob.
>

Yes, I'll work on porting the code to the real download page.

Thanks again for your help on this!

-Rob

> My hypothesis is 'liking us' will be more popular than 'sharing' the
> download page, which is our next experiment is a separate thread.
>
> On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 9:24 AM, Rob Weir <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 9:05 AM, Jürgen Schmidt <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>> > On 1/9/13 2:53 PM, Rob Weir wrote:
>> >> On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 10:34 AM, Rob Weir <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >>> On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 10:26 AM, Samer Mansour <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>> >>>> Rob,
>> >>>>
>> >>>> How should I send the zip to you? I finished four placements, we can
>> create
>> >>>> more variations on the wording, it's a simple change.
>> >>>>
>> >>>
>> >>> If it is less than 25MB, you can mail it to me directly.
>> >>>
>> >>
>> >> A quick update for the team:  Samer and I worked offline to get his
>> >> design variations for the download page integrated.  So the content
>> >> experiment is now up and running and we'll know in a couple of weeks
>> >> which version gives the greatest rate of sharing via Facebook, Google+
>> >> and Twitter.
>> >>
>> >> I'd rather not make public the exact URL's for the variations, since
>> >> visiting those pages directly could distort the statistics being
>> >> gathered, but if you visit http://www.openoffice.org/download you will
>> >> probably be shown one of the variations with the social sharing icons.
>> >>
>> >> Currently we're seeing a "conversion rate" of around 0.1%, meaning
>> >> 0.1% of visitors to the page share their excitement with their social
>> >> network.  Since we get around 100K downloads/day, that amounts to
>> >> around 100 shares per day.  And if each person has 100 people in their
>> >> social network, that gives us 10,000 impressions per day, which is
>> >> some nice free advertising.  To put that in perspective, 10,000 is
>> >> greater than the size of our Twitter, Facebook and Google+ subscriber
>> >> lists combined.  Plus, the nature of the sharing is that the post will
>> >> come from someone familiar, since it is shared within a social
>> >> network.  So the impact is that much greater.
>> >>
>> >> The point of this "content experiment" is to find the design that
>> >> gives the highest conversion rate.  This is the first step.  We might
>> >> do additional variations later as well.
>> >>
>> >> In any case, thanks to Samer for his contributions over the holidays!
>> >>
>> >
>> > ... too fast
>> >
>> > thanks for sharing, very interesting but I don't see any sharing icons
>> > when following the link
>> >
>>
>> Approx 20% of visitors are shown the original, unmodified page, as a
>> control.
>>
>> -Rob
>>
>>
>> > Juergen
>> >
>>

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