Website suggestion: 'Click Through' stats as part of initial listing

patientvalue on 29/08/2011 - 09:47

As Ozbargain is rapidly becoming more popular deals are getting closed out sooner/faster.

Perhaps the 'click through' stat could be on the 'home page'/ 'new deals' page where the deal is initially listed so we can get a feel for how many have already looked at it…just a thought.

I find this useful because I compare comments and votes as a ratio to the 'clicks' to get a feel for a deal before/in addition to clicking through.

A few great deals have rapidly increased the popularity (the power of 'network effects')- congratulations and thanks to Scotty and one and all.

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  • zhenjie on 29/08/2011 - 20:11

    Don't think its useful in most cases. People won't dwelve into those stats or use it as comparisons because its almost always related to number of positive votes.

  • scotty on 29/08/2011 - 21:21

    Yeah I am still thinking how the click through number is helping the bargain hunters. They are some sort of indicator (for example, how ozbargain'ed a merchant is). Would be interested though to have number of clicks through time on an hourly interval — how a deal is bombarded when it first appears, when it got on the home page, and how the click through dies down over time for example.

    For example, two offers that got > 100 votes from the last 24 hours.

    Obviously the Volley's offer with dead server and officially sold out after 12 hours gives it more clicks. On the other hand the Bunnings offer was sold out just one hour after it got listed on OzBargain. Anyway, it would be fun to see how some deals get votes and some deals get clicks.

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