BenJam
commented
7 years ago right, now that #1184 is done... we can move on.
Search
On a sample size of 301k sessions 268k came straight from Google search into a project page, mostly into a /github url (131k)
what are the most popular search terms?
Looks like most search terms are for specific projects rather than keywords, top three being casperjs, phantomjs and angular
what are the results for those search terms?
The specific examples above result in the npm main project.
does a user click on any of those search terms?
32k performed a search, 21k of which dropped off at that point. The rest clicked through to a project, mostly on npm.
The only real conclusion I can draw here is that search is currently outsourced to Google and that it could be improved massively, thought there's a cost/benefit analysis needed there.
Package manager support
what are the most popular package managers?
NPM, Bower, NuGet
what package managers that we don't support should we add next?
Needs addressing in #1176
Maintainer functions
- which project pages are most popular?
- how far down the page do people scan, and what does that mean?
- area release statistics more useful than sourcerank score?
- does anyone actually look at sourcerank?
Increasing contributions
- does anyone hover/click the 'make a suggestion' link?
- does anyone look at the footer?
I'll keep adding to this ticket, feel free to add anything that might be insightful.
andrew
Following from #1127 and #1177 it would be good to gather a lot more data from analytics to support/dispute some of the assumptions we make of our users. This will involve