[General] Language of users

[Brian Kirsch]

Great Information!

This would make an excellent quarterly (monthly?) report and helps to  
target
localization priorities.

In-line with the metrics below, French and German are already slated
for localizations in Chandler Desktop.


Thanks,
Brian


Brian Kirsch
Internationalization Architect / Mail Service Engineer
Open Source Applications Foundation
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San Francisco, CA 94105
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On Oct 23, 2007, at 9:07 AM, Jared Rhine wrote:

> Another in a series of random reports on Chandler Project metrics.   
> This time: Languages
>
> Similar to my report of screen sizes, here's a quick "top 25  
> languages visiting chandlerproject.org".  The number below are  
> total visits measured via Google Analytics for the period Sept 22 -  
> Oct 22.
>
> Language  Visits
> en-us	  25458
> en	  5463
> fr	  2584
> de	  1922
> en-gb	  1652
> ja	  1487
> it	  547
> es-es	  490
> pl	  408
> zh-cn	  340
> pt-br	  324
> es	  310
> nl	  302
> ja-jp	  268
> de-de	  258
> en_us	  233
> zh-tw	  214
> ru	  205
> ja-jp-mac 192
> sv-se	  125
> cs	  124
> es-ar	  112
> da	  87
> ko	  83
> hu	  73
>
> Conclusions:
>
> French is the top non-English language.  German is next, at 80% the  
> size of French.  Then Japanese, at 60% the size of French.
>
> Also for reasons unknown to me, the Germans and Japanese have a  
> "bounce rate" about 13% lower than English and French.  Roughly, it  
> means these readers are slightly more engaged and don't leave the  
> site as quickly as English/French.  (40% bounce via 35% bounce,  
> normalized to 100%).
>
> There's a long-tail of languages here, obviously; a total of 89  
> listed actually.
>
> -- Jared
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