Thanks for thinking through this, Jon.  I think I made something
unclear--responses inline.  In green to make reading easier:

On Tue, Oct 13, 2015 at 8:58 AM, Jon Robson <[email protected]> wrote:

> Jon thanks so much for writing this up and thanks Joaquin for putting it
> on the wiki (you beat me to it :))
>
> I'm a little confused to the meaning of "tag impression" -  does it mean
> they rendered or that the user saw them?
>

User saw them, or, more specifically, appeared on screen.


> If the latter...
>
> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/Projects/Categories_Browse#/media/File:Browse-Views_and_clickthrough.png
> suggests that 50% of the time a reader saw a tag (.45% of the time) (there
> was a tag impression) they clicked on them (0.18%). Am I misunderstanding
> what tag impression means?
>

Sorry, this graph is a little confusing because it has 2 axes.  The red
(impressions) corresponds to the right axis and the blue (% click-through)
is the left- axis.  So, the way to read it is that there were ~50,000
impressions a day, and the click-thru rate was .18%.  This means that for
every ~1000 times a tag appeared to a user, ~2 clicks occurred.  The
question of what % of pageviews resulted in an 'impression' is a really
good one - I think it could be easily looked up using the pageview_hourly
table.

>
> Is this a fair summary?:
> "When the tags were __visible__ to the user, 30-50% of the time they
> clicked through to the "category page". On this page only 40% of visits
> resulted in a click to an article in the list.
>
No--for reasons explained above.

>
> To me this is significant traffic... especially if made more visible.
> I personally would expect normal link traffic to be higher and for this to
> be a new source of engagement.
>
Yes, it would be hard to get higher click-through than our current
engagement model, but anything additive represents not only massive
numbers, but an opportunity to have our users increasingly think of us as a
place to learn (rather than a simple question and answer)


>
> Can we clarify this on the wiki page and in this thread as I fear I'm
> misunderstanding something..?
>

Yes--will add clarity to the graph on wiki.  It might be awhile, however,
before I have the brain and time to execute the query your question brought
up of "what % of total pages lead to the tag being shown"?  This will just
as easily be answered by the read more data you will be implementing.


>
> Other questions:
> * What was the number of clicks to tags per visit? (were being opening new
> tabs or clicking on one?)
>
I don't understand this question.  I know we can't track 'visits'.
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