Congratulations, Magaziners... May 2018 was our best month EVER on the Magazine. Of course it was a release month with Fedora 28 releasing on May 1, 2018, and several related articles following that news.
For comparison:
Fedora 26 --> Jul 2017 --> 366,601 pageviews Fedora 27 --> Nov 2017 --> 389,554 pageviews Fedora 28 --> May 2018 --> 400,598 pageviews
It's true this is only a modest increase, and there's a bit of unwanted "flattening out" to the curve. However, my semi-educated guess is this is due to a few problems:
* The release article timing was botched due to unwanted links in the announcement text, which forced us to publish other articles waiting in the wings. In the future we should make sure to eliminate errant links like that, so we can space out views over time.
* Quite a few articles in May, including the release related articles, did not use the special "<!-- more -->" tag that incents RSS readers to come to the site to view the whole article. We need to use this tag in *every* article.
With these fixes, my bet is we would have seen closer to 415K-425K pageviews, showing an accelerating release-to-release curve. However, 400,000 views in a month is nothing to sneeze at! Let's keep striving.
On Fri, Jun 01, 2018 at 10:26:12AM -0400, Paul W. Frields wrote:
- The release article timing was botched due to unwanted links in the announcement text, which forced us to publish other articles waiting in the wings. In the future we should make sure to eliminate errant links like that, so we can space out views over time.
This was my fault. I'll make sure to coordinate better for next release.
Hi,
Congratulations to everyone!
On Fri, Jun 01, 2018 at 10:26:12AM -0400, Paul W. Frields wrote:
- Quite a few articles in May, including the release related articles, did not use the special "<!-- more -->" tag that incents RSS readers to come to the site to view the whole article. We need to use this tag in *every* article.
Why is it important for the Fedora magazine to try to push the numbers this way? There is no advertising revenue and everyone reading the RSS feed will also get notifications about other articles. Maybe readers do not mind to switch from their RSS reader to the magazine and IMHO this reduces the value of the RSS feed and therefore the exposure of the magazine.
Kind regards Till
On Sun, Jun 3, 2018 at 2:30 PM Till Maas opensource@till.name wrote:
Hi,
Congratulations to everyone!
On Fri, Jun 01, 2018 at 10:26:12AM -0400, Paul W. Frields wrote:
- Quite a few articles in May, including the release related articles, did not use the special "<!-- more -->" tag that incents RSS readers to come to the site to view the whole article. We need to use this tag in *every* article.
Why is it important for the Fedora magazine to try to push the numbers this way? There is no advertising revenue and everyone reading the RSS feed will also get notifications about other articles. Maybe readers do not mind to switch from their RSS reader to the magazine and IMHO this reduces the value of the RSS feed and therefore the exposure of the magazine.
Mainly because it's a way that we can track readership transparently. Alternatives are less palatable, such as tracking codes.
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