While poking over my Google Analytics I discovered this odd thing I think they call it a "Bounce" rate ? It's supposed to measure how often people come to your *one page* and then bounce away without sticking to your site to read others related pages. That sounds like what you're talking about below.
That is, do people read one page and then go away? Or do they read one page and then another 25 more in the same sitting, before the boss comes in and fires them? That kind of thing. Will -----Original Message----- From: Carcharoth <[email protected]> To: English Wikipedia <[email protected]> Sent: Thu, Sep 3, 2009 4:14 pm Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Googley comments On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 12:06 AM, David Gerard<[email protected]> wrote: <snip> > Y'know, we have pretty much no facillities *just for the reader*. I thought they had things called articles they could read? :-) Seriously, some of the better portals are hard for readers to find. And I'm not sure how far some readers go beyond the articles they are reading. Page views are about the only clue there. It would be nice if the usability people found out this sort of thing, or if there were stats revealing the most popular *routes* taken by people, from say, a place like the main page. But I think that requires things like cookies and privacy concerns might weigh against such things, though if some readers could be persuaded to have their browsing session "recorded", that would be very interesting. I was very pleased to see the "Featured content portal" feature very highly on one of the recent page view listings. Carcharoth _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
