On Wed, 25 Oct 2017, Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
On Wed, Oct 25, 2017 at 10:05 AM, Roger Price
wrote: See Debian [1], DNS24 [2] and openBSD [3] for succinct examples of what can be done.
The openBSD page looks so dated.... ... But to say that developers don't like something that looks nice is, I think, not accurate.
I took openBSD as an example of "information content", not for being up to date. The site Distrowatch [5] presents an informal "light-hearted" hot 100 of the GNU Linux and BSD distributions based on page hit counts on the Distrowatch site. This is not a rigourous measure but is a useful indicator of relative interest. Over the last 30 days, openSUSE has been at 9th position. openSUSE merits a higher place, and was 6th a year ago. [6] How does the openSUSE home page compare with the rest of the hot 100 as a technical site? In an effort to make an objective estimate, the Distrowatch-Watcher page [http://rogerprice.org/Distrowatch-Watcher.html] in it's Table 1 looks at the "information content" of the hot 100. In the same "light hearted" manner as Distrowatch, the "information content" can be estimated by comparing the number of characters in a page which are human readable to the total number of characters. Out on the World Wide Web, that ratio varies from 0 through to 90%. The Distrowatch-Watcher [8] currently shows openSUSE in 37th position at 19.2%. Other distributions are doing better: Debian is in 9th position at 35.8% and openBSD is in 11th place at 32.1%. In table 3, DNS24 is in 10th place with an excellent 57.1%. Table 3 compares openSUSE with other well known sites. RFC 2822 at 83.8% and the Unicode/UTF-8 FAQ at 83.3% show that concentrating on the technical content rather than the glitz gets a high score and a site suitable for developers and sysadmins. The Distrowatch-Watcher's Table 3 also shows that inside the opensuse.org site, openSUSE does achieve high information content scores. Back in 2014 [7] the openSUSE home page scored 43.1% for information density with a page designed in 2008: << As part of Hack Week III, members of the openSUSE community redesigned this landing page for the openSUSE web site. The main ideas for the redesign are: * Provide information about the openSUSE project ... >> This desire to offer information needed by developers and sysadmins seems to have been lost on the home page. openSUSE needs to get back to previous good habits. Roger [5] https://distrowatch.com/index.php?dataspan=4 [6] https://distrowatch.com/dwres.php?resource=trending [7] https://web.archive.org/web/20141015175748/http://www.opensuse.org/en/ [8] http://rogerprice.org/Distrowatch-Watcher.html -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org