Hi all,
While updating the Q4 goals [1] for the Wikipedia.org Portal Team today, I wanted to see where we currently are with the bounce rate of visitors to the portal and found some really good news on our dashboard [2].
Back in December 2015, we had approximately 60% of our visitors to the portal page arrive and then leave without doing anything (bounce rate). We also had about only 30% of the portal visitors doing a search on the page and other actions were much lower.
Now, as of March 22, 2016, our bounce rate is down to 44% and the searches are up to 42%. Which is a very nice improvement (due to many explainable and unexplainable things) and it shows that our numbers are certainly moving in the right direction. Woohoo!
Check out this image [3] for the pretty dashboard stats picture. :)
Happy Friday!
Deb
[1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Engineering/2015-16_Q4_Goals#Wikipe... [2] http://discovery.wmflabs.org/portal/#action_breakdown (go to Smoothing dropdown and select Monthly Median) [3] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bounce_Rate_for_Wikipedia_Portal_Dec...
-- Deb Tankersley Product Manager, Discovery Wikimedia Foundation
I've been on vacation, so I know I'm late to the party, but I had to jump in and say that this is great news! The new search box really is wonderful.
I wanted to see where we currently are with the bounce rate of visitors to
the portal and found some really good news on our dashboard [2].
[2] http://discovery.wmflabs.org/portal/#action_breakdown (go to Smoothing
dropdown and select Monthly Median)
Even unsmoothed it's clear what's going on. Bounce and search really mirror each other—so people aren't bouncing generally *because* they are searching instead—and they have been getting closer to each other.
The weird thing is that people bounce more and search less on Saturdays, though. I wonder if that's more bounces, fewer searches, or both.
Trey Jones Software Engineer, Discovery Wikimedia Foundation
On Fri, Mar 25, 2016 at 4:12 PM, Deborah Tankersley < dtankersley@wikimedia.org> wrote:
Hi all,
While updating the Q4 goals [1] for the Wikipedia.org Portal Team today, I wanted to see where we currently are with the bounce rate of visitors to the portal and found some really good news on our dashboard [2].
Back in December 2015, we had approximately 60% of our visitors to the portal page arrive and then leave without doing anything (bounce rate). We also had about only 30% of the portal visitors doing a search on the page and other actions were much lower.
Now, as of March 22, 2016, our bounce rate is down to 44% and the searches are up to 42%. Which is a very nice improvement (due to many explainable and unexplainable things) and it shows that our numbers are certainly moving in the right direction. Woohoo!
Check out this image [3] for the pretty dashboard stats picture. :)
Happy Friday!
Deb
[1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Engineering/2015-16_Q4_Goals#Wikipe... [2] http://discovery.wmflabs.org/portal/#action_breakdown (go to Smoothing dropdown and select Monthly Median) [3] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bounce_Rate_for_Wikipedia_Portal_Dec...
-- Deb Tankersley Product Manager, Discovery Wikimedia Foundation
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