On 20 May 2010 16:29, David Gerard dgerard@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... ;-)