David Bryant (Sep 02 2025 at 16:15): David Bryant (Sep 02 2025 at 16:15):As requested here, we're going to start publishing monthly site analytics for our online Component Model book, specifically an overall site report and visit info for the top ten pages. Comments, questions, and suggestions welcomed!
David Bryant (Sep 02 2025 at 16:15):August 2025 Component Model book overall site activity:
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David Bryant (Sep 02 2025 at 16:17):August 2025 Component Model book top visited pages:
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David Bryant (Oct 01 2025 at 18:16):Here's the September 2025 site analytics report for our online Component Model Book:
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David Bryant (Oct 01 2025 at 18:17):And data on the most visited pages in the online Component Model Book for September:
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Victor Adossi (Oct 01 2025 at 18:52):Wow, so Rust > Moonbit > ??? as far as languages go, and people visit the WIT page a ton. Definitely surprising
David Bryant (Oct 01 2025 at 20:41):Yeah, the WIT page has been #1 for two months in a row, and in both cases about twice as popular as the second most visited page (which in both cases was "Why the Component Model.")
David Bryant (Nov 03 2025 at 18:32):Here's the October 2025 site analytics report for our online Component Model Book:
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David Bryant (Nov 03 2025 at 18:34):And data on the most visited pages in the online Component Model Book for October (with WIT again leading the way followed (again) by "Why the Component Model"):
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Victor Adossi (Nov 05 2025 at 17:02):Thanks David! We merged a pretty big redesign like last week (? the week before?) and we were just talking about how it would be interesting to see the most popular pages after the change.
I'm not seeing any of the new pages showing up just yet (for example, if you go to https://component-model.bytecodealliance.org/language-support/rust.html, you get redirected to the new page), BUT maybe this is just a matter of the redirects not being counted/showing up yet.
Clearly rust is our most popular language guide (moonbit outperformed probably because it was newly added)
David Bryant (Nov 09 2025 at 02:33):Thanks for the update, Victor! Happy to generate interim results to show traffic patterns for the new and old pages so you don't have to wait for a monthly November report in early December. Let me know what would be helpful.
David Bryant (Dec 01 2025 at 16:53):Here is the November 2025 site analytic report for our online Component Model Book:
Component Model Book site analytics - November 2025.png
David Bryant (Dec 01 2025 at 16:55):And data on the top ten most visited pages in the Component Model Book for November 2025:
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David Bryant (Jan 05 2026 at 21:38):Here's the December 2025 site analytics report for our online Component Model Book:
Component Model Book site analytics - December 2025.png
David Bryant (Jan 05 2026 at 21:39):And data on the top ten most visited pages in the Component Model Book for December 2025:
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David Bryant (Feb 02 2026 at 16:39):Here's the January 2026 site analytics report for our online Component Model Book:
Component Model Book site analytics - January 2026.png
David Bryant (Feb 02 2026 at 16:40):And data on the top ten most visited pages in the Component Model Book for January 2026:
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David Bryant (Mar 02 2026 at 19:52):February 2026 site analytics for our Component Model Book:
Component Model Book site analytics - February 2026.png
David Bryant (Mar 02 2026 at 19:53):And data on the ten most visited pages in the Component Model Book for February 2026:
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David Bryant (Apr 01 2026 at 22:59):March 2026 site analytics for our Component Model Book:
David Bryant (Apr 01 2026 at 23:00):And data on the ten most visited pages in the Component Model Book for March 2026:
David Bryant (May 01 2026 at 16:28):April 2026 site analytics for our Component Model Book:
David Bryant (May 01 2026 at 16:28):And data on the ten most visited pages in the Component Model Book for April 2026:
David Bryant (Jun 01 2026 at 16:25):May 2026 site analytics for our Component Model Book:
David Bryant (Jun 01 2026 at 16:26):And data on the ten most visited pages in the Component Model Book for May 2026:
Victor Adossi (Jun 02 2026 at 03:33):Hey David thanks for these -- I'm just hoping we're not wasting your time pulling these together. To speak for myself I think too little has changed in the last few months, and I'm having a hard time finding something significant in the data.
We've had basically the exact same order in terms of popular pages, and it looks like people primarily interact with the Rust path first and foremost (moonbit was a blip I think during their awareness push/adding their docs the first time)... Can't come up with too many other insights that would help us push in a specific direction on docs
David Bryant (Jun 02 2026 at 15:42):Hi Victor. Thanks for the insights. It's absolutely no trouble for me to gather the data and post it here, which I'm happy to continue to do.
Is part of analyzing the monthly statistics trying to identify new areas we could document additionally or improve relative to current coverage? Or spot undervisited areas we might want to enhance? I don't think we do much to call attention to the Component Model Book otherwise, so are you looking at the stats to see if there'd be benefit in doing so? If there are actions we could take experimentally to then see how site visit data changes let me know as I'd be happy to help with that too.
Victor Adossi (Jun 03 2026 at 01:51):So I have been up until now been looking to know the most popular parts of the books -- hopefully to form an idea on where we should focus time/effort (is there a spike in visits to the JS section? What do people most want to know about? etc).
We had an issue for putting more links to the CM books in more places, which I think we got through, but maybe doing some more of that is a good idea.
I think if the goal is to increase site visits there are definitely things we could do (e.g. including a link to the CM book above the fold on every BCA post that has to do with components), but up until now I've been thinking mostly of what we could learn about the doc effort from the traffic really...
Victor Adossi (Jun 03 2026 at 01:56):Now that I think about it -- something like making the site more LLM friendly (llms.txt?) might also be worth doing (we use mdbook so this should be relatively easy via plugin) -- but that's more idle conjecture, it's not clear that would be huge uplift, given our current referrers (chatgpt is there, but I'm not sure that traffic goes up because we add llms.txt, per-say).
David Bryant (Jun 03 2026 at 17:29):Seems like a good SIG-Documentation brainstorm topic, which I'd be happy to join so as to take any operational action items involved (or you can come back to me with needs/ideas and I'll work with you on them). Do think an open call on Zulip for suggested areas of attention would be useful? Would part of being more LLM friendly enable (better?) interactive exploration of our documentation via an agent interface?
Victor Adossi (Jun 03 2026 at 17:36):yeah we actually had a meeting today (but the calendar meeting/invites were a bit messed up so we had less than the normal amount of people) so the next chance we'll have to discuss this is 2 weeks from now (other than online, of course!)
We briefly discussed it but then realized it's actually a pretty open question (at least I thought it was) -- i.e. what are our actual goals for this... quarter/half/year/near future/etc, with regards to docs.
I think we could probably discuss it at the next meeting and maybe in between now and then create a zulip thread so people can start think/discuss?
David Bryant (Jun 03 2026 at 17:47):Having a discussion at the next SIG meeting sounds like a good idea, with some preliminary sharing on Zulip between now and then.
(I saw the conversation about today's meeting, by the way, and try to keep the invitation current and accurate in the Bytecode Alliance calendar but know people also have invitations on their calendars directly.)
David Bryant (Jul 01 2026 at 16:31):June 2026 site analytics for our Component Model Book:
David Bryant (Jul 01 2026 at 16:32):And data on the ten most visited pages in the Component Model Book for June 2026:
Victor Adossi (Jul 01 2026 at 16:53):Looks like C is now on the list! I wonder if this is due to the work currently ongoing in LLVM to get p3 threads across the line
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