kcopas
commented
6 years ago Good hunch. Traffic is not absent, but it's probably neither what we'd expect or what we'd want:
Analytics All Web Site Data Pages 20170612-20180611.pdf
Two quick suggestions:
- Add 'Literature' (or whatever plain-English term works best) to the navigation
- Add a feature card to the home page, encouraging people to browse.
The latter might be an interesting experiment, too, to gauge whether, how and if people take cues from content on the home page—or if they just glide past it to what they think they want.
Literature collection not visible enough in spite of frequent references to
GBIF presenters frequently mention GBIF collection of tracked literature. Several cases confirm that discoverability is very poor: people don't find our collections so easily through GBIF.org -> Inside GBIF -> Featured data use -> Literature tab. I realized that very few people go through this four click route. Someone even suspected that this an internal collection!
Even though individual papers are searchable through the main search, the entire collection works very nicely as a GBIF product in addition to Science Review. I am not sure if analytics supports the suspicion that only those who know where to find it, will fund and use it.
User provided contact info: @dschigel System: Firefox 52.0.0 / Windows 10.0.0 User: See in registry Referer: https://www.gbif.org/resource/search?contentType=literature Window size: width 1408 - height 679 API log&_a=(columns:!(_source),index:'prod-varnish-',interval:auto,query:(query_string:(analyze_wildcard:!t,query:'response:%3E499')),sort:!('@timestamp',desc))) Site log&_a=(columns:!(_source),index:'prod-portal-',interval:auto,query:(query_string:(analyze_wildcard:!t,query:'response:%3E499')),sort:!('@timestamp',desc))) System health at time of feedback: OPERATIONAL