[EHPweb] Ideas for linking to California/Nevada from homepage

[Eric M Martinez]

Yes people can 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.

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:

	"Why do we have a map of the world on the home page?"

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.

Thanks,
	~Eric.









On Dec 16, 2009, at 10:32 AM, Paul S Earle wrote:

> Thanks Jeremy,
> I don's see why this needs to be done can't people just click on the  
> US map to get to California?
> -pse
>
>
> From:	Jeremy M Fee <jmfee at usgs.gov>
> To:	EHP Web <ehpweb at geohazards.usgs.gov>
> Date:	12/15/2009 06:38 PM
> Subject:	[EHPweb] Ideas for linking to California/Nevada from homepage
> Sent by:	ehpweb-bounces at geohazards.usgs.gov
>
>
>
>
> During the weekly web team meeting we discussed ideas for highlighting
> California on the earthquake.usgs.gov home and earthquakes pages, for
> both short and long term.  If anyone has any suggestions, please send
> them to this list or directly to lisa at usgs.gov .
>
>
> One idea, for the short term, is to add an image map to the small us
> map that would link either to
>
>                 http://quake.usgs.gov/recenteqs/latestfault.htm or
>                 http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsus/Maps/special/California_Nevada.php
>
> Here is a sample of what it might look like, with the white border
> corresponding to the link hotspot to show users there is something
> they can click.
>
> [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]
>
>
> Any feedback is appreciated,
>
> Thanks,
>
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