<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Yes people <i>can</i> click through to California, however people who live in- or are interested in California information compose the largest majority of traffic to our web site and may be under-represented on the home page. See the attached image for some numbers. You can see that California generates nearly 6x more traffic than its nearest competitors and the numbers drop off drastically after that. Also note visitors from California view more pages per visit, and stay longer per visit.<div><br></div><div>For even more startling numbers; we get more visits from California in a given month than all of Europe, Asia, Oceania, and Africa combined (~765,000). If we are trying to meet the wants and needs of our visitors it would seem more pressing to ask:</div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>"Why do we have a map of the world on the home page?"</div><div><br></div><div>This question isn't posed to start further discussion about moving the world map as I think the world map is not going anywhere, but rather to give some perspective on who our users are and to suggest we think about trying to meet their needs rather than our own.</div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br></span></span></font></div><div><div><div apple-content-edited="true"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>Thanks,</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>~Eric.<br></div><div><br></div></div><div><br></div></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></span><img height="195" width="631" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" src="cid:5A6FD9CD-7FB6-49BD-B136-85A95F10D74B"> </div><div apple-content-edited="true"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br></span></div><div><br></div><br></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"> </div><br><div><div>On Dec 16, 2009, at 10:32 AM, Paul S Earle wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><font size="2" face="sans-serif">Thanks Jeremy,</font> <br><font size="2" face="sans-serif">I don's see why this needs to be done can't people just click on the US map to get to California?</font> <br><font size="2" face="sans-serif">-pse</font> <br> <br> <br> <table width="100%"> <tbody><tr valign="top"> <td><font size="1" color="#5f5f5f" face="sans-serif">From:</font> </td><td><font size="1" face="sans-serif">Jeremy M Fee <<a href="mailto:jmfee@usgs.gov">jmfee@usgs.gov</a>></font> </td></tr><tr valign="top"> <td><font size="1" color="#5f5f5f" face="sans-serif">To:</font> </td><td><font size="1" face="sans-serif">EHP Web <<a href="mailto:ehpweb@geohazards.usgs.gov">ehpweb@geohazards.usgs.gov</a>></font> </td></tr><tr valign="top"> <td><font size="1" color="#5f5f5f" face="sans-serif">Date:</font> </td><td><font size="1" face="sans-serif">12/15/2009 06:38 PM</font> </td></tr><tr valign="top"> <td><font size="1" color="#5f5f5f" face="sans-serif">Subject:</font> </td><td><font size="1" face="sans-serif">[EHPweb] Ideas for linking to California/Nevada from homepage</font> </td></tr><tr valign="top"> <td><font size="1" color="#5f5f5f" face="sans-serif">Sent by:</font> </td><td><font size="1" face="sans-serif"><a href="mailto:ehpweb-bounces@geohazards.usgs.gov">ehpweb-bounces@geohazards.usgs.gov</a></font></td></tr></tbody></table> <br> <hr noshade=""> <br> <br> <br><tt><font size="2">During the weekly web team meeting we discussed ideas for highlighting <br> California on the earthquake.usgs.gov home and earthquakes pages, for <br> both short and long term. If anyone has any suggestions, please send <br> them to this list or directly to <a href="mailto:lisa@usgs.gov">lisa@usgs.gov</a> .<br> <br> <br> One idea, for the short term, is to add an image map to the small us <br> map that would link either to<br> <br> </font></tt><a href="http://quake.usgs.gov/recenteqs/latestfault.htm"><tt><font size="2">http://quake.usgs.gov/recenteqs/latestfault.htm</font></tt></a><tt><font size="2"> or<br> </font></tt><a href="http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsus/Maps/special/California_Nevada.php"><tt><font size="2">http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsus/Maps/special/California_Nevada.php</font></tt></a><tt><font size="2"><br> <br> Here is a sample of what it might look like, with the white border <br> corresponding to the link hotspot to show users there is something <br> they can click.<br> <br> [attachment "us_index.gif" deleted by Paul S Earle/GD/USGS/DOI] [attachment "us_index-1.gif" deleted by Paul S Earle/GD/USGS/DOI] <br> <br> <br> Any feedback is appreciated,<br> <br> Thanks,<br> <br> Jeremy_______________________________________________<br> EHPweb mailing list<br> <a href="mailto:EHPweb@geohazards.usgs.gov">EHPweb@geohazards.usgs.gov</a><br> </font></tt><a href="https://geohazards.usgs.gov/mailman/listinfo/ehpweb"><tt><font size="2">https://geohazards.usgs.gov/mailman/listinfo/ehpweb</font></tt></a><tt><font size="2"><br> </font></tt> <br> <br>_______________________________________________<br>EHPweb mailing list<br><a href="mailto:EHPweb@geohazards.usgs.gov">EHPweb@geohazards.usgs.gov</a><br>https://geohazards.usgs.gov/mailman/listinfo/ehpweb<br></blockquote></div><br></div></div></body></html>