Closed Bug 865590 Opened 12 years ago Closed 8 years ago

move plugincheck banners to affiliates.mozilla.org

Categories

(Websites :: plugins.mozilla.org, defect)

Product:
Websites
Component:
plugins.mozilla.org
Platform:
x86
All
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

People

(Reporter: cbook, Unassigned)

References

Details

spinoff from https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=797192#c32 from cmoore "Did anyone consider dropping the bottom section about the banners and just sending users over to affiliates.mozilla.org where they can sign up for a plugin checker banner, get the code, track clicks, and more? It would also make the page lighter and smaller, which is helpful on a page like this." Ibai, any concerns or issues if we would do this move ?
Plugin Check banners have been on affiliates.mozilla.org for a few years now. Log in to the website and check them out: https://affiliates.mozilla.org/en-US/new/4
No concerns at all. We left this here in the first place to ensure that we were not removing any of the original content. The adoption of these Plugin badges seems low enough (almost none existent) and we still have a huge amount of traffic (I can't identify any traffic to the english version of the page coming from a site that has a badge). If the performance is going to improve for 100% of the visitors...making the page lighter is a way bigger priority.
Yeah Chris. We still need to remove it from Plugincheck. Let's use this bug for that. Just half of the work :D
(In reply to Chris More [:cmore] from comment #1) > Plugin Check banners have been on affiliates.mozilla.org for a few years > now. Log in to the website and check them out: > > https://affiliates.mozilla.org/en-US/new/4 Awesome! So I am gonna change the title of this bug, seeing it does not need to moved and is already there, and remove them from plugincheck with a link through to affiliates. All in favor say +1
Assignee: nobody → sneethling
What if we drop the entire bottom section about the banners and just put a section at the end of the FAQ like: --- Want to spread the word? Help protect your friends! Visit <a href="https://affiliates.mozilla.org">Firefox Affiliates</a> to get a plugin check badge for your site. --- The only issue with the badge on Affiliates is that it does not contain JavaScript to alert visitors that their plugins are out of date. Let me see if I can see if anyone is using this badge now.
Assignee: sneethling → nobody
(In reply to Chris More [:cmore] from comment #5) > What if we drop the entire bottom section about the banners and just put a > section at the end of the FAQ like: > > --- > > Want to spread the word? > > Help protect your friends! Visit <a > href="https://affiliates.mozilla.org">Firefox Affiliates</a> to get a plugin > check badge for your site. > > --- > > The only issue with the badge on Affiliates is that it does not contain > JavaScript to alert visitors that their plugins are out of date. Let me see > if I can see if anyone is using this badge now. Sounds good to me although, we might want to change the wording to: Help your friends stay safe and improve their browsing experience, visit <a href="https://affiliates.mozilla.org">Firefox Affiliates</a> to get a plugin check badge for your site.
Yeah, only 2% of the traffic to plugin check page is referring traffic from other websites and I am unable to find a single badge out there. Probably the only way for certain to find the banner is the grep the access logs for /js/plugincheck_badge.js requests and looking at the referring URL.
(In reply to Chris More [:cmore] from comment #7) > Yeah, only 2% of the traffic to plugin check page is referring traffic from > other websites and I am unable to find a single badge out there. Probably > the only way for certain to find the banner is the grep the access logs for > /js/plugincheck_badge.js requests and looking at the referring URL. Does not seem worth the trouble, let's do this. Anyone apposed to this change or the wording? Also, is there a preference to the wording: 1) Help protect your friends! Visit <a href="https://affiliates.mozilla.org">Firefox Affiliates</a> to get a plugin check badge for your site. -- or -- 2) Help your friends stay safe online and improve their browsing experience, visit <a href="https://affiliates.mozilla.org">Firefox Affiliates</a> to get a plugin check badge for your site.
I like the second one. It appears that almost no one is using the dynamic button so dropping that section speeds up the page and improves the most visited page at Mozilla. :)
I think it's fair to assume these badges are not really needed: - "Plugin" is fairly jargony and our potential target users (those less tech savvy users who need to be told that they need to update) will have difficulties to understand what the banner is about. - Many sites already tell you that your flash/java/silverlight/you.name.it is out of date. - We have an in-product alert (yellow box expanding from the chrome) that seems to drive millions of users every day. So, if we want to promote Affiliates, let's add that extra FAQ. We can measure how many people uses the FAQ after a couple of weeks and decide if we can remove more from the bottom and focus on the updating piece of the site. I like the second version of the copy. I would suggest a quick edit: Help your friends stay safe online! Visit <a href="https://affiliates.mozilla.org">Firefox Affiliates</a> to get a plugin check badge for your site.
Thanks everyone, PR coming soon
+1 to everything above. Love it when we all can work together, make decisions, and execute. :)
Commit pushed to master at https://github.com/mozilla/bedrock https://github.com/mozilla/bedrock/commit/a8597793ab53b600af8ad2679c9cc7c79e17f5e4 Merge pull request #802 from ossreleasefeed/bug865590-remove-badge-section-add-faq remove badge section and add a new faq entry pointing to affiliates
Verified FIXED on staging; https://www.allizom.org/en-US/plugincheck/ has a content block that talks about and points to https://affiliates.mozilla.org/
(In reply to Chris More [:cmore] from comment #12) > +1 to everything above. Love it when we all can work together, make > decisions, and execute. :) yeah! indeed - great work team!
Plugin-Check is no longer supported.
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 8 years ago
Resolution: --- → INCOMPLETE
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