On 20 May 2010 16:29, David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com> wrote:
No, I mean actual data from the actual use of our
site. Putting the
search box in the same place as other popular sites is on the
assumption that people will find this more familiar. But what's the
actual data say about the change? I assume someone gathered some
before and plans to gather some after.
We have a rough proxy for use of search, I believe, by seeing the
traffic to special:search. We could try seeing if this exhibits any
noticeable difference after the chance.
On the other hand, you could interpret any such change in about seven
different ways, so it may not help much... ;-)
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- Andrew Gray
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