Board Thread:Administrative/@comment-5014364-20161112215742/@comment-23865-20170330100935

As promised, I pulled some data for you, and here's what I can tell you:


 * about 1.85% of users click anything in the nav (see bar/funnel chart below)
 * most people click on the third-level drop downs, with clicks to tabs (1st level) and 2nd level items (Season 1, etc.) receive much fewer clicks.





Unfortunately we don't track clicks to individual items on the menu so I can't give you any more details.

However, this does suggest a couple things:
 * we can be bold in experimenting with different ways to structure the nav -- it will not affect a big number of users, and there's a lot of space for improvement ;)
 * anticipating user needs might get more people to move around using the nav

Let me elaborate on that last point.

When a reader comes to the wiki, they are likely looking for one of a couple things: Davos Seaworth]] guy they mentioned?")
 * current information (newest episode, newest season, hottest 'Red Wedding'-type event in the show at the moment)
 * favourite/most popular characters ("I wanna read about Dany", "I wanna read about Jon", etc.)
 * reference and historical content in current context ("Who was that [[
 * reference and historical content in general ("How many members did the Kingsguard have?")

Given the statistics given above I would suggest an experiment to you, The Dragon Demands: can we arrange the nav to capture those different usecases and needs? As the series progresses there will be more and more seasons and presenting all of them in the nav will likely be even less practical than it is now. :) So basing this on reader needs instead may be a better option.

We could make the change along with flipping on the new nav and look at stats after say a 2 and then after 4 weeks to see if we've gotten more traffic and more clicks this way.

Does this sound like a good idea?

If there's any other data you'd be interested in, let me know.