[Webmacro-devel] SF stats up, sort of

[Marc P. <ma...@an...>]

Hi all,

Well we've racked up an amazing 4000 page views on the 15th Jan on SF as a 
result of the press release. However downloads were not in proportion to 
this based on previous figures. I was wondering if anybody had any thoughts 
on why this might be. A "page view" is, I imagine, a client viewing any of 
the SF pages for WM, including the download page. I wonder why so many 
people make it to the download page and then decide not to download. Any 
ideas? It seems very odd that so many people will fall at the last hurdle.

Here's the stats for the last few days. The PR went out on the 13th so you 
can see how accesses have ramped up. Prior to this, our daily average 
downloads was around 35 (guesstimate based on SF figures) and page views 
were averaging around the 600 per day mark (another educated guesstimate).

Date			Page views	Downloads
----------------------------------------------------
15 Jan 2003		4,092		90
14 Jan 2003		2,424		103
13 Jan 2003		1,702		71
12 Jan 2003		287		7
11 Jan 2003		13		1
10 Jan 2003		467		8

We really should try to work out how to turn these 4000 interested people 
into WM users! A download rate of only 2% is pretty poor.

All I can think of is that maybe some people are looking around the rest of 
the SF project site for activity, bug reports etc. to assess the "activity" 
of the project. If so they are getting a skewed view because we don't fully 
use SF.

Alternatively, they are being put off by the switch to the SF site for 
downloads, whereas downloads direct from the WM site might fare better as 
it's all within the cosy atmosphere of the WM site and there is a "context" 
to everything.

Eric - can we "grep -c" access_log on webmacro.org to get the download 
stats for the last few days? Without a log analyser it's going to be a 
tricky regex to stats per day though.
-- 
Marc Palmer