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

[Paul S Earle]

Eric,

Thanks for the explanation. The number could be interpreted another way. 
That is that we need to improve the website for people outside California 
so those numbers go up. The layout should not only reflect the desires of 
the people visiting but he mission of the earthquake program. I realize 
there is a balance here and I'm not going to stress if California gets a 
box around it.

Paul



From:
Eric M Martinez <emartinez at usgs.gov>
To:
Paul S Earle <pearle at usgs.gov>
Cc:
EHP Web <ehpweb at geohazards.usgs.gov>
Date:
12/16/2009 11:46 AM
Subject:
Re: [EHPweb] Ideas for linking to California/Nevada from homepage



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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