More hopefully interesting data for you to digest...
We added some click tracking to the left menu (aka the 'hamburger
menu') in the beta/alpha version of the mobile wiki sites to get a
feel for how people use it.
My take on the data is the following theories (note this is skewed to
users of beta who are likely to be a completely different profile to
users of stable - it would be good to collect similar data on the
stable version of the site to see how it differs):
* users click on the home button to escape special pages and get back
to the search - this is why it is the most popular button. We should
make the UI for special pages more consistent with article pages.
* The watchlist is the feature of choice for logged in users
* Nearby is a much more popular choice for anonymous users but doesn't
seem to be used by editors to discover
* Profile is a new addition and early data suggests a sense of
identity might be more important on some projects rather than others
* People seem to go to the settings page to switch between
beta/alpha/stable frequently. It would be interesting to understand
why - is it because features are broken, or they want new features? It
would be good to reduce this - I'd like to get to the stage people
feel more comfortable in one rather than the other - ideally lack of
desire to switch modes suggests we are creating a comfortable
environment for them to live in.
* Random is actually a popular feature. We could probably make this
feature between that a link in a menu you have to open first to get
to.
* Anonymous users don't tend to login directly from the left menu they
are likely to be driven by a link to the feature they want to view
And the data:
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For enwiki beta/alpha logged in users [1]:
hamburger-home 138
hamburger-watchlist 107
hamburger-settings 99
hamburger-random 71
hamburger-profile 57
hamburger-uploads 56
hamburger-nearby 37
hamburger-logout 21
For all beta/alpha wikis logged in users [2]:
hamburger-home 302
hamburger-watchlist 263
hamburger-settings 216
hamburger-random 148
hamburger-uploads 115
hamburger-nearby 89
hamburger-profile 57
hamburger-logout 22
We recently added logging for anonymous users in beta and alpha [3]
hamburger-home 383
hamburger-random 384
hamburger-settings 350
hamburger-nearby 171
hamburger-watchlist 158
hamburger-uploads 101
hamburger-login 6
Break down of what mode people are in whilst using settings [4]:
alpha 127
beta 441
stable 30
[1] SELECT event_name, count(*) from MobileWebClickTracking_5929948
where event_name LIKE 'hamburger%' and event_username != '' and
event_mobileMode!='stable' and wiki = 'enwiki' group by event_name
[2] SELECT event_name, count(*) from MobileWebClickTracking_5929948
where event_name LIKE 'hamburger%' and event_username != '' and
event_mobileMode!='stable' group by event_name
[3] SELECT event_name, count(*) from MobileWebClickTracking_5929948
where event_name LIKE 'hamburger%' and event_username = '' and
event_mobileMode!='stable' group by event_name
[4] SELECT event_mobileMode, count(*) from
MobileWebClickTracking_5929948 where event_name = 'hamburger-settings'
group by event_mobileMode