{"id":410,"date":"2009-02-12T16:04:46","date_gmt":"2009-02-12T23:04:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/metrics\/?p=410"},"modified":"2019-09-18T12:07:07","modified_gmt":"2019-09-18T19:07:07","slug":"interacting-with-one-of-the-webs-most-popular-pages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/metrics\/2009\/02\/12\/interacting-with-one-of-the-webs-most-popular-pages\/","title":{"rendered":"Interacting with One of the Web&#8217;s Most Popular Pages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By far the most visited page across Mozilla&#8217;s web sites is the &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mozilla.com\/firefox\/3.0.6\/whatsnew\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">whatsnew<\/a>&#8221; (or update) page.\u00a0 Each time there&#8217;s a release (e.g., 3.0.6), users automatically get updated to the latest version of Firefox, and as part of that process, the user\u2019s browser shows the following page:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mozilla.com\/firefox\/3.0.6\/whatsnew\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-412 aligncenter\" title=\"heatmap_whatsnew_page\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/metrics\/files\/2009\/02\/heatmap_whatsnew_page-300x191.png\" alt=\"heatmap_whatsnew_page\" width=\"300\" height=\"191\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/metrics\/files\/2009\/02\/heatmap_whatsnew_page-300x191.png 300w, https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/metrics\/files\/2009\/02\/heatmap_whatsnew_page.png 849w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>So, what makes us think this might be one of the most visited pages on the web?\u00a0 Here are some numbers for the 3.0.6 associated page:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>We&#8217;ve seen a total of about 90,000,000 page views (all locales, over the past ten days or so)<\/li>\n<li>About 36,000,000 visits to the en-US locale version<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The next question is:\u00a0 How do users actually interact with this page?<\/p>\n<p>To answer this, we looked at a heat map of the en-US page version.\u00a0 You&#8217;ll see across the different places users can click, we&#8217;ve seen about 1.3 million total clicks.\u00a0 That translates to a click-through rate of about 3.6%, which seems pretty good to me.\u00a0 The other thing that stands out is the relatively high concentration of clicks in the middle section \u2013 &#8220;View the top new features&#8221; and &#8220;See what&#8217;s new in Firefox 3.0.6&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-411 aligncenter\" title=\"whatsnew_heatmap_forblog2\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/metrics\/files\/2009\/02\/whatsnew_heatmap_forblog2.png\" alt=\"whatsnew_heatmap_forblog2\" width=\"517\" height=\"317\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/metrics\/files\/2009\/02\/whatsnew_heatmap_forblog2.png 517w, https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/metrics\/files\/2009\/02\/whatsnew_heatmap_forblog2-300x183.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 517px) 100vw, 517px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Does anything else stand out to you?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By far the most visited page across Mozilla&#8217;s web sites is the &#8220;whatsnew&#8221; (or update) page.\u00a0 Each time there&#8217;s a release (e.g., 3.0.6), users automatically get updated to the latest version of Firefox, and as part of that process, the &hellip; <a class=\"go\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/metrics\/2009\/02\/12\/interacting-with-one-of-the-webs-most-popular-pages\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[103,101],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/metrics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/metrics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/metrics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/metrics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/60"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/metrics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/metrics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/metrics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/metrics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/metrics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}