[Battlemesh] Publishing results: call for help

[nemesis]

 On Tue, 19 Jan 2016 21:15:38 +0800, Antonio Quartulli <a at unstable.cc> 
 wrote:
> On 19/01/16 20:51, Saverio Proto wrote:
>>> The effort was not in vain, in less than a year (from august till 
>>> today) the
>>> documentation was read by roughly 1000 people, which in total spent
>>> something like 50 hours reading it.
>>
>> Do you mean that in average everyone of this 1000 people just spent 
>> 3
>> minutes reading the documentation ?
>>
>> (50 * 60) / 1000 = 3
>
> Maybe we need to know the variance before drawing any conclusion :)
>
> I like to think that many people spent way more time on the results,
> while another portion only saw the first page and then walked away.
>
> Still it's 1000 people who hit this website.
>
> Federico, to avoid bad interpretations, it would be nice to exclude
> people who opened the website and then closed it right 
> away...basically
> "hit & leave". Not sure you are using any analytics tools which allow
> you to do that, but it would be helpful in order to get a more
> meaningful feeling (but I am not sure we want to really do analytics 
> on
> doc.battlemesh.org).

 It seems it's not possible to do this with the free tool i'm using.
 But I'm willing to share the administration with whoever wants to take 
 a look.

 I'll give you an example of a successful small nutrition business which 
 has a blog which attracts roughly 400 unique visitors a day (12K+ each 
 month).
 The average time spent on the website is 49 seconds.

 Without analyzing variance, you can easily understand that a lot of 
 those people go there accidentally, spend a few seconds and then leave.
 For the battlemesh results instead, most of the people are really 
 interested in reading the stuff; not many people accidentally look for 
 "mesh network test under load", or keyphrases like that.
 
> I think the whole point from Federico was that these result are
> considered by somebody and this is really nice for everybody.

 Yes you got the point, which is: if people who know what they're 
 looking for find something and they spend that amount of time reading 
 it, it means the stuff is interesting, over time it will pay off, like a 
 good investment.

 Federico