987517 - Port /firefox/aurora/ to bedrock

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(www.mozilla.org :: Pages & Content, defect)

Comment 1

[Jennifer Bertsch [:jbertsch]]

Hey Josh-

Thanks for filing.  This one is long overdue.

Holly and I want to make some minor design updates to remove the broken blog feeds and fix the UX on the desktop/mobile toggle.

-Jen

Comment 2

[Josh Mize [:jgmize]]

:groovecoder and I were discussing this the other day and he mentioned we could just redirect /firefox/aurora to http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/channel/#aurora which I think is an interesting option.

Comment 3

[Luke Crouch [:groovecoder]]

Right - /firefox/channel has better engagement than /firefox/aurora. [1][2]

But really, we need to track the clicks on the download Aurora buttons (distinct from the generic "Firefox Desktop" download clicks we currently track [3]) to know which page is better at specifically driving Aurora downloads.

[1] https://www.google.com/analytics/web/?hl=en#report/content-pages/a36116321w64087799p65789850/%3Fexplorer-table.plotKeys%3D[]%26explorer-table.advFilter%3D[[0%2C%22analytics.pagePath%22%2C%22RE%22%2C%22^%2F.*%2Ffirefox%2Fchannel%22%2C0]]/

[2] https://www.google.com/analytics/web/?hl=en#report/content-pages/a36116321w64087799p65789850/%3Fexplorer-table.plotKeys%3D[]%26explorer-table.advFilter%3D[[0%2C%22analytics.pagePath%22%2C%22RE%22%2C%22^%2F.*%2Ffirefox%2Faurora%22%2C0]]%26explorer-table.rowStart%3D0%26explorer-table.rowCount%3D50/

[3] https://www.google.com/analytics/web/?hl=en#report/content-event-events/a36116321w64087799p65789850/%3Fexplorer-segmentExplorer.segmentId%3Danalytics.eventLabel%26_r.drilldown%3Danalytics.eventCategory%3AFirefox%20Downloads%26explorer-table.plotKeys%3D[]%26explorer-table.secSegmentId%3Danalytics.pagePath/

Comment 4

[Luke Crouch [:groovecoder]]

Gareth & Chris, can you think of a better/new way to separate out *Aurora* downloads from other Firefox Desktop downloads? I'd like to track those as another goal and especially measure MDN's effectiveness in sending dev's to download Aurora.

Comment 5

[Gareth Cull [:garethc]]

Ideally, we'd fire an event in GA on click of the download button, and capture the channel within the event. We have an open bug for this. Can we please re-visit this?

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=872740

Comment 6

[Chris More [:cmore]]

(In reply to Gareth Cull [:garethc] from comment #5)
> Ideally, we'd fire an event in GA on click of the download button, and
> capture the channel within the event. We have an open bug for this. Can we
> please re-visit this?
> 
> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=872740

We should get on this post-Australis, we also need to point all download buttons to the second scene of the download page (bug 874913) and then add the GA event that should also capture the channel.

Comment 7

[Luke Crouch [:groovecoder]]

I read up on bug 874913, but I don't see any Aurora options on the second scene of the download page. On MDN we link straight to https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/channel/#aurora or to https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/aurora/. Will these pages also be deleted in favor of the download page?

Comment 8

[Chris More [:cmore]]

(In reply to Luke Crouch [:groovecoder] from comment #7)
> I read up on bug 874913, but I don't see any Aurora options on the second
> scene of the download page. On MDN we link straight to
> https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/channel/#aurora or to
> https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/aurora/. Will these pages also be
> deleted in favor of the download page?

Good question. Currently, the download page is release-channel only. /firefox/channel/ is a page on the new bedrock platform. /firefox/aurora/ is on the old php system that is being deprecated. I would point to /firefox/channel/#aurora (without the locale) since I cannot say if and when the main Firefox download page will handle all channels without making for a more complex and heavy UI. Also, pointing to /firefox/channel/ is better because it is on the python side and we are trying to kill off the old php pages.

Comment 9

[Kohei Yoshino [:kohei]]

As per Bug 1005237, /firefox/aurora/ will be removed soon. Closing.