Download Stats

Goal: refine the existing Download Stats page and integrate it more into the mainstream of mozilla.com

Scope:

• make existing page look more like mozilla.com (adding header, updating fonts, etc)
  
• reformatting new page for better visual appeal (rearranging content, removing large SQL Stream promo, etc)
  
• integrate links to this page into the rest of the site (particularly by adding a download counter to the Firefox page)
  
• make sure the stats and counter are stable
  

Schedule:

• August 4: scoping, wireframes, planning
• August 5: refine mockups
• August 6-7, 10-12 development
• August 13-14, 17: QA, fixes
• August 18: launch

Team: (please add more names as needed)

• Dave Dash
  
• Stephen Des Roches (silverorange)
• Daniel Einspanjer
• Mike Morgan
• John Slater
• Stephen Donner

Meetings

Aug 13

TODO

• morgamic - write blog post
• dd - write code for total count and copy/paste
• silverorange - move thanks to bottom
• silverorange -remove data API portion
• silverorange/jslater - another hour of style cleanup
• stephend - QA
• morgamic - talk to stephend and clear up QA questions

Aug 6

TODO

• Create placeholders for dynamic widget elsewhere - Stephen
• Provide stats for 1-off pages (personal page, etc.)
  • Update Python script to create super-small total JSON - Dave
  • Write simple JS to pull that feed and populate the widget - Dave/Stephen/Mike
• Update /firefox/stats/ with the js (add the canvas map, dynamic table with sparklines) - Dave

Aug 4 TODO Status

• John/Stephen - Have a solid idea of where we'll put links to the stats page (done)
• Stephen - first draft of stats page on mozilla.com (page created / started)
• Stephen - get on IRC (done)
• Dave/Mike - make sure that the feed works, ask Daniel about future feeds (done)
• Stephen - get on IRC (done)

Aug 4

• SVN setup
  • use mozilla.com/.../firefox/stats/
  • feed will remain in metrics/downloadvis/...
• Where to start with mozilla.com cross-mojination
  • Static page lives on mozilla.com, feed lives downloadstats.mozilla.com
• Slater visual design notes:
  • Download stats page
    • Add proper headline (not just logo + wordmark + "downloads") and short subhead explaining what this page is
    • Should have the full mozilla.com header bar
    • Should have the right nav links consistent with the rest of the http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/ pages
    • Needs short text blurb (lower on the page) with brief explanation of what the #s mean, with a link to a blog post that has more detail about methodology.
  • Firefox download page
    • Needs small promo (most likely under the right nav bar links) with a download counter and link to the full page (following the AMO model). Will need to remove Release Notes and Other Systems & Languages from that nav to make room (note: those links are also under the download button, so we're not losing any content here).
    • add 'statistics' link to right nav?
    • Same promo will need to be added to http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/personal.html, which is laid out differently from the other Firefox download pages.
  • will add copy by Thursday
• Going with /firefox/stats/
• SVN for current download stats app: http://svn.mozilla.org/metrics/downloadvis/html/
• TODO
  • John - write miscellaneous bits of copy for page & promo
  • John/Stephen - Have a solid idea of where we'll put links to the stats page
  • Stephen - first draft of stats page on mozilla.com
  • Dave/Mike - make sure that the feed works, ask Daniel about future feeds
  • Stephen - get on IRC

Aug 3

• Get familiar with the process
• Take a look at mocks
• Discuss scope

• Notes
  • will try sprint meetings Tues/Thurs
  • need to make sure the feed/counter doesn't die
  • need to make code handle failure state
  • right now button on map isn't important
  • right column dependent on new feed
  • do we need to have granularity in the stats table
    • figure out what feed we can get, and that determines scope
  • country box w/ local storage/cookies to save which countries are viewed
  • top 10 list - already have that
• TODO
  • determine what kind of feed we can get
  • figure out what happens when we start tracking download types (manual vs. updates)
  • blog post to describe stats and how we make those stats
  • get Stephen access to download stats SVN
  • figure out where download stats page lives -- metrics or mozilla.com?