FW: FW: [dita-fa-edboard] Traffic and mission

["Carol Geyer" <carol.geyer@oasis-open.org>]

 FYI, from the OASIS webmaster...

-----Original Message-----
From: Jose Marquez [mailto:jose.marquez@oasis-open.org] 
Sent: Monday, April 30, 2007 3:12 PM
To: Carol Geyer
Cc: 'Greg Rundlett'
Subject: Re: FW: [dita-fa-edboard] Traffic and mission

Hi Carol,

I appreciate the Board's observations and questions; as a result, I've built a 
crude filter (no pun intended) to remove the gambling/pills/porn referrals, 
so I can send them a revised list for that. As for their feed concerns, 
there's some suggestions on dealing with feeds and aggregators in an oldish 
(June 2004) posting I found online:

http://jogin.com/weblog/archives/2004/06/15/statistics

I was searching for ways of dealings with feeds using our existing stats 
analysis tool (AWStats) and found that. I would be shocked that 3 years 
later, there isn't better information about handling feeds online, and I'll 
seek it out. I'll also talk to Greg and Neil about implementing some of the 
ideas in the blog entry above, as they appear to have value outside of just 
the dita.xml.org site.

Jose

On Monday 30 April 2007 03:10:50 pm Carol Geyer wrote:
> Jose,
> Thanks for sending the DITA XML.org traffic report. Below are some
> observations/questions from the Editorial Board:
> __________________________________________________
>
> The numbers could use some more massaging before we use them to draw
> conclusions.
>
> For example, 2/3 of our referrals come from poker and travel sites. Can we
> get stats that subtract those visitors?
>
> The most commonly visited pages are the home page and the feeds. Is there a
> way to find out which of the designed areas of the site our interested
> visitors are coming to?
>
> How do we analyze interest when so much of the traffic is feeds, which are
> filtered at the client end? Do the feeds render traditional analytics
> obsolete? Can we get more insight into what content is being subscribed to?
>
> __________________________________________________
>
> Thanks,
> Carol
>
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: Carol Geyer [mailto:carol.geyer@oasis-open.org]
> >Sent: Monday, April 30, 2007 8:02 AM
> >To: dita-fa-edboard@lists.xml.org
> >Subject: [dita-fa-edboard] Traffic Report for DITA XML.org site
> >
> >DITA XML.org Editorial Board,
> >Attached are site stats for April. We may want to discuss these on our
> >next
> >call.
> >Carol
> >
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