Обсуждение: Popular pages on techdocs
I noticed today that direct links to techdocs pages are now all redirecting to the front page of the wiki. Does anyone have any statistics on what the popular pages were on techdocs? I was thinking that would be a good input on an organizational redesign, knowing what people were using the most. -- * Greg Smith gsmith@gregsmith.com http://www.gregsmith.com Baltimore, MD
On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 12:50 AM, Greg Smith <gsmith@gregsmith.com> wrote: > I noticed today that direct links to techdocs pages are now all > redirecting to the front page of the wiki. Does anyone have any > statistics on what the popular pages were on techdocs? I was thinking > that would be a good input on an organizational redesign, knowing what > people were using the most. You might be able to extract some useful data from Google Analytics if you're willing to give it a go? You'll need a Google account so I can give you access. I am aware that some of the text we migrated is *really* old now, so a culling/archiving session would be a worthwhile pursuit. -- Dave Page EnterpriseDB UK Ltd: http://www.enterprisedb.com PostgreSQL UK 2008 Conference: http://www.postgresql.org.uk
On Fri, 14 Mar 2008, Dave Page wrote: > You might be able to extract some useful data from Google Analytics if > you're willing to give it a go? I certainly was. Ignoring the main navigation pages, here are the most popular pages on techdocs: techdocs.54: "A Guide to GUI Tools Supporting PostgreSQL" techdocs.37: "PGSQL Talks" techdocs.16: "Updating columns in PostgreSQL tables effectively" techdocs.83: "Why PostgreSQL Instead of MySQL" techdocs.15: "Using PostgreSQL's COPY function effectively" techdocs.13: "FAQ: Working with Dates and Times in PostgreSQL" techdocs.29: "HOWTO : Microsoft SQL Server to PostgreSQL Migration" techdocs.76: "Howto SSL enable Postgresql LDAP Authentication" To ease the transition a prominently placed "Looking for something from the old site?" page linking to these might be a helpful to all the people who follow a now redirected link. On the broader topic of what people look for that lands them on one of the docs pages (which includes both techdocs and when they are redirected onto a section of the manual), here are the things people search for with Google starting with the most popular: alter table change password sequence psql pg_hba.conf create table copy vacuum join update select count insert schema auto increment pg_dump cast initdb union coalesce createuser timestamp oid like date show delete trigger I had been working on a more task-oriented FAQ for postgresqldocs.org, staring at this data makes me think that would be nice to integrate with a "Popular manual sections" page of some sort. I sometimes guess what people want but it's always nice when it can be measured like the above instead. > I am aware that some of the text we migrated is *really* old now, so a > culling/archiving session would be a worthwhile pursuit. While there are some recent articles like my MySQL comparision, many of the most popular pages were dated 2001. There's plenty to be culled, but some it should be probably be refreshed instead. -- * Greg Smith gsmith@gregsmith.com http://www.gregsmith.com Baltimore, MD
On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 6:53 PM, Greg Smith <gsmith@gregsmith.com> wrote: > On Fri, 14 Mar 2008, Dave Page wrote: > > > > You might be able to extract some useful data from Google Analytics if > > you're willing to give it a go? > > I certainly was. Ignoring the main navigation pages, here are the most > popular pages on techdocs: > alter table change password sequence psql ... > > I had been working on a more task-oriented FAQ for postgresqldocs.org, > staring at this data makes me think that would be nice to integrate with a > "Popular manual sections" page of some sort. I sometimes guess what > people want but it's always nice when it can be measured like the above > instead. Agreed. Magnus, do you think it would be worth adding this data as an additional weighting on the search engine to favour appropriate pages? Or perhaps we should just update the docbot thingy. > > I am aware that some of the text we migrated is *really* old now, so a > > culling/archiving session would be a worthwhile pursuit. > > While there are some recent articles like my MySQL comparision, many of > the most popular pages were dated 2001. There's plenty to be culled, but > some it should be probably be refreshed instead. You sound like you're volunteering :-p -- Dave Page EnterpriseDB UK Ltd: http://www.enterprisedb.com PostgreSQL UK 2008 Conference: http://www.postgresql.org.uk