On 01/09/2012 01:55 PM, Dominique Chabord wrote: >> On 01/07/2012 11:43 AM, Dominique Chabord wrote: >>> Google trends provides completely absurd results most of the time.
Or perhaps you're misinterpreting them? > They are just not credible, imho. > Compare values for Morocco and Tunisia vs France. They hit common sens. The data is normalized, otherwise this would simply be a list of the biggest countries (and cities) in the world. You might really want to read the FAQ, for example questions #9 and #14: http://www.google.com/intl/en/trends/about.html#9 http://www.google.com/intl/en/trends/about.html#14 Having a country or city in the top results means that *relatively* to all other queries in that area, the search term is more frequent than in other countries/cities. > As an example, number of visits to sisalp.fr grows by more than > 100%/year over two last years, so I'm convinced the growth of requests > on openerp is far more than 100%/year because of new geographies > recently covered and brand notoriety expansion Again, we're talking normalized search volume trends, not raw search traffic nor raw hits on some specific website. Likewise, 100% growth doesn't mean much on its own. The OpenERP website gets thousands of unique visitors per day, worldwide. France, despite being the largest contribution in 2011, only represents 8% of that. Hence doubling the number of French visitors would only represent an increase of 4% of the total visits we get. > It's always better to have good metrics rather than bad ones, for sure. > Results from openerp.com logs which count clicks from google search > provide you with far more accurate data, and I'm convinced, far more > optimistic figures. Our own web statistics do show similar *relative* values, so the estimations of Google Trends are relevant enough for us. _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openerp-community Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openerp-community More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
