Re: Popular pages on techdocs

On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 6:53 PM, Greg Smith <gsmith(at)gregsmith(dot)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

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