600708 - [Fx4Launch] build new Firefox Download Stats page

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(www.mozilla.org :: General, defect)

Description

[John Slater]

The pages are starting to roll in as part of the redesign project. The PSD for the download stats page is located here:
http://intothefuzz.com/leetom/Mozilla.com/PSD/

(all other content is the same)

Mike's project calendar has WebDev for the batch that includes this page running from 10/15-11/1. We're trying to run a little ahead of that schedule b/c there's so much work to do. I'm happy to answer any questions about schedule or prioritization that you might have.

Thanks!

Comment 1

[John Slater]

Daniel: as you know, the reporting on this page is currently broken and we've stopped linking to it. What needs to happen in order to get this fixed by December?

Research has shown that displaying the download stats actually increases conversion, so it would be great to have this page fully operational when we relaunch the site (on 12/8).

Comment 2

[Daniel Einspanjer [:dre] [:deinspanjer]]

I have a backburner project to do the necessary backend work to get this functionality back.  I can raise the priority and get that done. Frankly, it could happen much quicker if if you had budget to increase the contractor hours for the project, but once done, webdev would need to write some new code to query the new backend.  While we weren't really trying to add a lot to it, the new backend will be much more flexible in terms of allowing dynamic querying of particular countries or versions.

Let's figure out what we want to do about the front end integration first. Want to set up a meeting for it?

Comment 3

[John Slater]

(In reply to comment #2)
> Let's figure out what we want to do about the front end integration first. Want
> to set up a meeting for it?

Will do. Who should I include?

Comment 4

[Daniel Einspanjer [:dre] [:deinspanjer]]

Me, and if you have a webdev resource, them.

Comment 5

[Steven Garrity [:sgarrity]]

The redesign of this page is done in the nova branch in r76292. That doesn't address any of the issues in Comment #1 though - keep that in mind for QA.


There's also a JS error in IE6 that also happens in production. This complicates QA a bit.

Comment 6

[John Slater]

Thanks Steven. Page looks good, but like you noted there are some bigger issues at play here (comment #1) that are holding us back. 

Daniel, as far as I know those issues are in your court. Please keep us posted on the progress there (and if there's another owner who we should be checking in with instead, please let us know).

Comment 7

[Steven Garrity [:sgarrity]]

What's the status of this page? Will it be ok for launch? Should it be removed from the main menu?

Comment 8

[John Slater]

(In reply to comment #7)
> What's the status of this page? Will it be ok for launch? Should it be removed
> from the main menu?

Great catch, thanks Steven. It's looking like it won't be ready for launch on 12/14. Please remove from the main menu.

Comment 9

[Steven Garrity [:sgarrity]]

Done in r78690. Removing the [redesign] whiteboard tag - we'll have to come back to this.

Comment 10

[raymond [:retornam] (inactive)]

Attachment: screenshot

there is an error with the header drop down on this page see attached screenshot

Comment 11

[Alex Buchanan [:abuchanan]]

(In reply to comment #10)
> Created attachment 497829 [details]
> screenshot
> 
> there is an error with the header drop down on this page see attached
> screenshot

Seems like that is an issue with jQuery being old or undefined

Comment 12

[Steven Garrity [:sgarrity]]

There's a local copy of jQuery (probably older) being included in this page. It's merged in with http://viewvc.svn.mozilla.org/vc/projects/mozilla.com/trunk/en-US/firefox/stats/js/stats.js

Anyone feel like drudging through some minified JS?

Comment 13

[William Reynolds [:williamr]]

Attachment: Unminified local JS file

Here's an unminified version of the file mentioned in comment 12

Comment 14

[Michael Morgan [:morgamic]]

Since potch and jeff are working on this, it might be worth having them look at this first as a part of the world map effort.

Comment 15

[Laura Forrest]

Awesome - welcome Potch and Jeff! Moving this to 1.2 since code freeze for 1.1 is today. (1.2 launch is scheduled for 2/8)

Comment 16

[Craig Michael Thompson]

Hey guys, Steven messaged me a few days back about the qTip integration but not sure if he's got the message so thought I'd pop it on here instead!

The qTip HTML currently on the page that's currently causing the validation error isn't actually needed! It's generated on the fly (the HTML on the documentation was just for reference really heh) so it can be taken out :)

Also, qTip2 would be a good fit here as its much less bulky for the needs you're using it for. Would be great to see it upgraded! Let me know and I can convert the code over for you.

Comment 17

[Laura Forrest]

Hey Potch - is this a duplicate of Bug 607127? Seems like there's a lot of overlap between the two.

Comment 19

[Stephen Donner [:stephend] Not actively reading bugmail]

(In reply to comment #18)
> 
> *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 607127 ***

So, just to clarify, since this was marked a duplicate of the above: the Download Day/"Glow" page will live on Mozilla.com at http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/stats/, rather than being its own micro-site?  Looking at Lee's original PSD, and the intent of this bug, it was to re-skin the existing page, noted above, rather than re-design a new app for Firefox 4 downloads.

Comment 20

[John Slater]

That's a good question. Can we get some clarification on this?

Comment 21

[Daniel Einspanjer [:dre] [:deinspanjer]]

We still need to figure out if the glow site work that was done by potch and jeff can be integrated into the existing download stats page to replace the current map there.

It is a known fact that the mechanism behind the existing map will not be fixed.  If glow can't be integrated into this download stats page, then we need to shut down the entire page and remove access to it.

Comment 22

[Laura Forrest]

Glow was created specifically for the Fx4 launch. Although it's in app form it seems like it will cover all the functionality /stats does now in a more technically, visually refreshed and compelling way. 

One solution is to 'un-app' the glow page conditionally when accessed through the main menu so it fits better onto our standard web page flow. It would live at /stats. 

I think this will be fine to do shortly after launch since during launch we'll have multiple links to it on-site and through channels like snippets. Those will eventually go away and we'll still want a standard way to access this page. 

To compare: 
http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/stats/ 
http://people.mozilla.com/~mclaypotch/glow/

Comment 23

[Daniel Einspanjer [:dre] [:deinspanjer]]

AHA! I knew if I pinged in enough of these bugs someone would eventually slip and leak out the URL of the prototype.  So pretty...  ::me wipes chin::