[Foundation-l] Where do our readers come from? Q&A

Mon Jan 18 17:40:51 UTC 2010

Joan Goma hett schreven:
> There are 3 phenomena acting simultaneously against the number of visits to
> small projects: The bilingual effect, the size effect, and the Google
> effect. For Catalan case we estimate a penalization factor of 8.3 (that
> means that visits are 8.3 times less that what they should be). It comes
> from: 1.2 bilingual factor (visits lost because people also understand other
> languages, even if they have the opportunity to read the article in their
> mother tongue, they also read it in others). 2.5 size factor (visits to
> other projects because readers don’t find what they were looking for in
> their mother tongue). And 2,77 Google factor. (Visits lost because Google
> directs people to other tongues projects). The only positive factor is the
> bilingual one. We are working hard to correct the others. For other projects
> those factors can be very different but the concept can be there.
>   
Interesting. What's the math behind that numbers? Or the source?

Marcus Buck