On Jul 18, 12:33 pm, "Harald Schilly" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi Harald, > Hello Sage folks, as promised in my last website posting [1], here a > bit more how things evolved. nice work and thanks for your continued efforts. > First, since there is some tracking going on, and I have a bit more > than two weeks to compare, I can make some trends and analysis. > The first thing is, that the visitors come and go very stable. During > work-days 850-1050 visits. On weekends around 600. (Here, visits are > unique computers, old ones and new ones together) > Then, just counting unique new visitors (they were never before on the > page) there are about 750-800 on weekdays and nearly 500 on weekends. > Conclusion, a lot of new visitors, and those who visit regularly have > a nice weekend ;) > Comparing both weeks, ~3% more visits, a bit less page views and 8% > less new visitors. > > The pages itself, the front-page is the same, but now download is up > to rank 2, and tour down to rank 3. (38%, 13%, 11%) > Then help (4.5%) and tour-quickstart (4%). > > Now the more interesting things, sources: > 34% from other websites and 31% search engines > > other websites: > > macupdate.com + 270% (!!) = 179 visits Yes, that one does surprise me each week, but I guess that is a good thing :) > en.wikipedia.org + 5% = 153 v. > linuxappfinder.com +231% = 106 v. > macresearch.org -42% (<- would be interesting to know why, maybe > no longer a new link) > stumbleupon.com -50% > aur.archlinux.org + 117% (also interesting) > fr.wikipedia.org + 425% (but that's already very low ... 4 visits up > to 21 visits) > > +100% equals 2x the number of referring pages > > Since this may not work very accurate at all, relative trends are ok. > This just tells me, that there are still no really big sites linking > to sage. We will see ... > > search engines: > > google - constant - 1800 visits from there :) > yahoo 35 > the others are <10 > so, google is really really important! Yeah, but that number is still surprising to say the least. > something funny: type in "open source mathematica" in google.com and > hit "i'm feeling lucky"... > "open source maths software" works, too. but not without the "s" ;) > > what has changed? > > * I made a call for success stories [2] - still open! - see [3] > > * the mirror "system" is redone. now, there is one central > pagewww.sagemath.organd helpful servers mirroring files. They are > currently very big, but this will reduce down to the important files. > There is now a page to check the mirror status, too. [4] > Keep in mind that this is not the final list, there will be changes > and they should be sorted by continent. All but the Vancouver mirror are currently syncing or have finished syncing already, so in a little while we should be back to a fully functioning mirror system. > * more text on the tour.html page > > * many many small edits ... > > Harald Cheers, Michael > [1]http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel/msg/c610d318f86d5ddf > [2]http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel/browse_frm/thread/efb05c839... > [3]http://www.sagemath.org/library/stories.html > [4]http://www.sagemath.org/mirrors.html --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
