Comments on: What stats do you want to see? http://www.kalzumeus.com/2009/07/08/what-stats-do-you-want-to-see/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=what-stats-do-you-want-to-see Patrick McKenzie (patio11) blogs on software development, marketing, and general business topics Sat, 11 Feb 2012 04:17:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Nemanja http://www.kalzumeus.com/2009/07/08/what-stats-do-you-want-to-see/#comment-1874 Nemanja Fri, 17 Jul 2009 14:24:19 +0000 http://www.kalzumeus.com/?p=630#comment-1874 Patrick, thanks for being so open about your business and sharing all this data. As for stats, for a while I wanted to see how downloads of your desktop version are split between major operating systems. Please share that data if you can. Thanks! Patrick, thanks for being so open about your business and sharing all this data.
As for stats, for a while I wanted to see how downloads of your desktop version are split between major operating systems. Please share that data if you can.

Thanks!

]]> By: Patrick http://www.kalzumeus.com/2009/07/08/what-stats-do-you-want-to-see/#comment-1873 Patrick Fri, 10 Jul 2009 08:40:32 +0000 http://www.kalzumeus.com/?p=630#comment-1873 Mike, that is an EXCELLENT idea. That is so good I want to steal it and present it at the day job. Mike, that is an EXCELLENT idea. That is so good I want to steal it and present it at the day job.

]]> By: Mike McCallister http://www.kalzumeus.com/2009/07/08/what-stats-do-you-want-to-see/#comment-1872 Mike McCallister Wed, 08 Jul 2009 19:04:17 +0000 http://www.kalzumeus.com/?p=630#comment-1872 Based on the list you've already got, it looks like you've probably already read Dave McClure's presentation on metrics for startups. But if not, it's really worth a look: http://www.slideshare.net/dmc500hats/startup-metrics-for-pirates-startonomics-beijing-june-2009. I think you should also look at recording the revision of software that was running on the site when the customer signs up and when any particular "significant" event happens like when a customer creates his/her first word list. That will help you correlate changes in your metrics to the changes you made to the site. By revision, I'm thinking about a SVN revision number or a Mercurial changeset identifier or whatever the equivalent is for the VCS you use. Ideally, it should be a single element of data that represents the "state" of your application as seen by the user. Sure you could probably get there by meshing up the commit times from your VCS log with the times of events, but it would be much easier to do a "group by app_version" to learn that customers who first visited on version 87 were 15% less likely to convert during that visit than customers who first visited on version 85. Mike McCallister Based on the list you’ve already got, it looks like you’ve probably already read Dave McClure’s presentation on metrics for startups. But if not, it’s really worth a look: http://www.slideshare.net/dmc500hats/startup-metrics-for-pirates-startonomics-beijing-june-2009.

I think you should also look at recording the revision of software that was running on the site when the customer signs up and when any particular “significant” event happens like when a customer creates his/her first word list. That will help you correlate changes in your metrics to the changes you made to the site. By revision, I’m thinking about a SVN revision number or a Mercurial changeset identifier or whatever the equivalent is for the VCS you use. Ideally, it should be a single element of data that represents the “state” of your application as seen by the user. Sure you could probably get there by meshing up the commit times from your VCS log with the times of events, but it would be much easier to do a “group by app_version” to learn that customers who first visited on version 87 were 15% less likely to convert during that visit than customers who first visited on version 85.

Mike McCallister

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