I can test WinXP with IE7, FF2.0.X, FF1.5.X.

I can not test other operating systems or browsers. Will need to make sure we at least cover IE6 and mac/safari.

Note to self – mac users are sneezers (in a tipping point kinda way).

As much as I like the ego strokes – if y’all can get the number of ratings up to 2X the number of articles, I’ll add a “top rated articles” page to the site. I don’t rate the articles myself, so this is up to you.

Ratings: I guess only few people rate Tyner Blain articles because there is but one use of it: saying that they like what you have done. Something for your soul. Take each star as a nice little stroke ;-)

Ratings: I guesS only few people rate Tyner Blain articles because there is but one use of it: saying that they like what you have done. Something for your soul.

One nice thing about being the “product dictator” is I get to mandate that we include that cool stuff. The cool thing about being a “product manager” is that I know I need to wait and do other stuff first.

Thanks! And yes, I have absurd amounts of data on how people behave at Tyner Blain, including length of visit, frequency of visit, page views per visit, etc. Google analytics even lets me cross-reference different data elements (think of an OLAP cube, but with only a limited set of analyses available).

I excluded all of the stuff that I thought was more germaine to Tyner Blain, and just focused on user stats. On rating of articles (here) for example, there have been 549 ratings since Jan 17th. A paltry percentage of people rate the articles – probably because I don’t promote it too much, and partly because people just want to read. There are no “show me the top rated articles” links yet – I want to get at least 2x or 3x the # of ratings versus the # of articles first.

Data is fun. For example, 804 people visited the site from Google organic search results. Of those 804 visits, only 565 had never been to Tyner Blain before – the rest had been here before. The first time visitors average 2.78 page views per visit. The “return customers” average 6.1 page views per visit. For all visitors in April, we average just over 3 page views per visit. I don’t know who submits ratings, etc – but I think I know how to rewrite that plugin to make Google Analytics aware of it. I might do that after launching the APR. Same for poll responses, but probably harder (and a much much smaller data set).