New map search’s impact on your stats
The new Google Map’s search we’ve put online last week might have had a certain impact in the detailed statistics page of sellers accounts.
Here’s how the statistics are compiled when a visitor explores the ByTheOwner map search :
- When you roll over the icon of a property and the box containing its photo, its price and its city is opened during at least 1 second, one view is added to the number of times a property is shown in the search results;
- When a visitor clicks on the icon of the property and the large info window opens (containing Description, Photos, Comments and Contact tabs), the number of visits on the listing is incremented by 1.
- If the visitor goes to the complete listing of the property, directly from the map search, I do not add another visit to its statistics since I already counted this visitor in the info window he just opened. The latter almost containing all the information of the full listing.
Don’t hesitate to comment if you have any questions concerning this topic
Frédérick Dubois, ByTheOwner.com
Web development and programming
May 20th, 2007 at 3:37 pm
Hi,
You’ve really done a superb job on the website, the pop-up map which shows the location of the homes is very cool. RSS feeds are a really great way to keep track of suitable properties as they become available, and importantly, you can easily keep track of which ones you’ve already read.
My only criticism is that I seem to have to log back into the site (usually) if I close and then re-open the browser. I don’t know if you’re already using persistent session cookies, but if so, could you allow the user to set the expiry time to a few days or a couple of weeks.
Cheers,
Donal
May 23rd, 2007 at 3:13 pm
Hi Don,
I’m happy to see you enjoy our new search features!
I’ve received this “session” suggestion a couple of times now, we’ll be discussing it as soon as we can during one of our dev meeting
Have a nice day!
Frédérick