2008/11/11 Andrew Gray <shimgray(a)gmail.com>om>:
Okay, here's some notes - I posted them to the
wiki rather than here
in order not to dump a huge load of text on the list. Also, there's a
graph!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Shimgray/Election_statistics
I've updated this to include redirects, which was pretty educational -
a lot of traffic comes through them, as high as 20%.
During October, 5% of *all* readers looking at the Obama page were
doing so using a redirect which had a misspelled version of his name.
Given that virtually all of our internal links have the correct name,
this implies a much higher proportion of those who searched for it
will have ended up on these pages... so what proportion of our
visitors simply can't spell it? I wonder if anyone asked that question
in one of the tens of thousands of polls over the past few months :-)
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- Andrew Gray
andrew.gray(a)dunelm.org.uk