I am attaching the Google Analytics click through data for the pivots recommendation block.

I was able to gather this by searching on pivots content >> top content >> search box on GA.

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Analytics_drupal.org_20080917-20081017_(TopContentReport).csv_.txt1.58 KBAmazon
Analytics_drupal.org_20080917-20081017_(TopContentReport).pdf6.69 KBAmazon

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Amazon commented

To give some context, GA reports there were 7,324 pages containing "/project/*" were viewed a total of 150,921 times on October 17th. Of course the timezones mean that pivots clicks started sometime on Oct 17th, 2008.

October 17, 2008 - 22:55 - http://drupal.org/node/322228#comment-1064485

Better to measure results from the 18th forward to see the clicks on pivots links.

For those trying to interpret the results the logging is in this format: /pivotslog/$pivot_id/$node_id/{$item['nid']}/$position'. Hopefully, Daniel can explain these soon.

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Amazon commented

From what I can tell:

/pivotslog/4151/88566/267783/0 3 views

On the Zen project page: http://drupal.org/node/88566 three people clicked on "Drupal 6 sucks, there i said it" http://drupal.org/node/267783, which was the top recommended link, position 0.

On the Archiver project page,http://drupal.org/node/132961 , one person clicked on the third link "Patch the archiver.module" http://drupal.org/node/189872 twice.

On the LDAP integration project page, http://drupal.org/node/15109, one person clicked on the fifth link "Password Synchronization", http://drupal.org/node/286221 twice.

On the Duration project page, http://drupal.org/node/237377, two people clicked on the first link "CCK time", http://drupal.org/node/153932.

On the Image project page, http://drupal.org/node/3256, two people clicked on the first link in the related projects section Gallery project.

On the Insert view project page, http://drupal.org/node/44382, one person clicked on the 5th link in the related projects Links package project twice.

On the Imagefield project page, http://drupal.org/node/72560, two people click on the 4th link in the related projects filefield image project.

Hopefully that's useful and we can start to focus on making those recommendations even more useful.

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danithaca commented

The data looks nice. I'm also subscribing the the daily GA update and collect the data for analysis.

The tracking URL pattern looks like this: /pivotslog/$pivot_id/$node_id/{$item['nid']}/$position. The second parameter $pivot_id means the Recommendation algorithm we are using, $node_id means the source module node_id, {$item['nid']} means the recommended module node id, $position means the position of the recommended content in the block.

Now we are able to test which algorithms work better than the others by comparing which algorithm attracts more clicks.

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danithaca commented

A quick snapshot of the statistics interpretation by Kieran:

"11,098 pages containing "/project/*" were viewed a total of 279,992 times
So 369 of the 11, 098 project pages got clicked on: 3.3% of the projects got clicks and 506/279, 992 pages viewed were clicked on: 1.8% click through rate."

I'm going to study the data in more details soon and generate some formal reports.

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Amazon commented

17,073 pages containing "/project/*" were viewed a total of 819,617 times.

So 624 pages of the 17,073 project pages got clicked on: 3.7% of the project got clicks on 1,312/819,617 pages viewed clicked on: 1.6% click through rate.

I want to get a full week of analysis of having the pivots recommendations on /project/*. Then after a full 7 days, enable the forum block for recommendations as that might attract more new users looking for help.

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danithaca commented

Btw, the "forum block" is on the forum page, and displays modules that were mentioned in the discussion.

A usage pattern we expected to see is that a user can go to a forum page, click the module that was mentioned in the posts, forwarded to the module page, and then clicks other related forum posts that mention the same module.

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danithaca commented
Status: Active » Fixed

We are collecting statistics using more accurate GA script. The thread is switched to http://drupal.org/node/332499

Status: Fixed » Closed (fixed)

Automatically closed -- issue fixed for two weeks with no activity.