Quite impressive Adrelanos. I used to run these types of studies when developing interfaces years ago. Well done and thank you for sharing.
On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 5:30 PM, adrelanos <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi! > > I hope you are interested in the results of a little experiment. > > Q: How many users downloaded OpenPGP signatures with the old design of > download page? (You can see the design here: [1] [2]) > > A: 1 in ~30 users. > > Q: How many users downloaded OpenPGP signatures after adding a colored > download table, which indicates, that http downloads without OpenPGP > verification is the least secure method, to the download page? (You can > see the design here: [3]) > > A: 1 in ~11 users. > > Note: This is only an approximation. No experiment meeting scientific > standards. However, while the number of downloads didn't decrease, the > number of signature downloads significantly increased. Which is a good > thing, isn't it? Downloading a signature doesn't imply, the user > successfully managed to use OpenPGP verification or that the user > couldn't be tricked or just ignored an invalid signature error message. > > You can get some more information and more detailed statistics here: [5] > [6] > > This is also a follow up to: "[liberationtech] secure download tool - > doesn't exist?!?" [4] > > Cheers, > adrelanos > > Footnotes: > > [1] http://www.webcitation.org/6IWk5h4E9 > [2] Please ignore the "Moved to https://www.whonix.org"; part. That > snapshot has been forgotten and made later. Nevertheless it gives an > impression how the old download page looked like.) > [3] http://www.webcitation.org/6IWk5h4E9 > [4] > https://mailman.stanford.edu/pipermail/liberationtech/2013-July/009625.html > [5] https://whonix.org/wiki/Dev/Download_Statistics > [6] http://www.webcitation.org/6IWlyqokZ > -- > tor-talk mailing list - [email protected] > To unsusbscribe or change other settings go to > https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk > -- tor-talk mailing list - [email protected] To unsusbscribe or change other settings go to https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk
