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From: Dave Page <[email protected]>
To: Greg Smith <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Popular pages on techdocs
Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2008 08:49:15 +0000
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On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 6:53 PM, Greg Smith <[email protected]> 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

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