MDN reached 3M developers in the last month

[Luke Crouch]

Today MDN reached another milestone.

MDN reached 3,004,466 users from Sep 16 to Oct 16.

We continue to see more Users, Sessions, and Pageviews on MDN.

Developers seek out quality, and they're finding us more and more.

Thanks to everyone who helps make MDN awesome.

-L

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[Saurabh Nair]

Glad to hear.

My apartment mate and I were having a conversation the day before yesterday
and we kind of stumbled into JavaScript. He told me how he recently noticed
this site developer.mozilla.org that I told about. He said most of the
times he refer links to w3schools for JavaScript related topics, but
recently he noticed that a lot of the top search results for JavaScript
related topics were from the site called developer.mozilla.org. He told me
how he then went to the homepage of the site and was surprised to see a lot
of quality articles about a lot of useful stuff.

And like that...

Felt good to hear [?]

- jsx

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[Salman Rahman]

WOW! Great, really glad to hear that. Three cheers for MDN.

regards,
Salman

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[Jean-Yves Perrier]

Cool!

I'm curious here.

Given that we are in the top results for such requests for the last few
years, I would like to know why in the first place he went to w3schools?

Is it because:
- it is fast
- it is #1 and he didn't look further
- it was recommended by somebody else (friend, co-worker, teacher)
- it looks simpler.

?

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[Saurabh Nair]

Isiah, I haven't. I'll, some day soon.

teoli, I'll ask him and let you know his reasons. But probably his reasons
are the same as mine when I started learning. I'll outline a couple of *my*
reasons below.


- #1 position in Google results for lots of keywords. I have read
somewhere that 50% (or so, I don't remember exactly) visitors just click on
the first result only. And if the first result (w3school page) succeeded in
answering my question, then no reason to look further.
- Another thing is that the titles of links to MDN pages can be a little
overwhelming for *beginners*. I searched for "*javascript settimeout*".
The w3schools result simply read *"Window setTimeout() Method"*, whereas
the MDN result read *"WindowTimers.setTimeout() - Web API Interfaces"*.
WindowTimers? API interface? No thanks :)
See another - http://i.imgur.com/F7VMjZe.png
- And about being recommended by someone, I don't remember anyone
recommending. But nobody recommended me MDN either. I have seen people I
knew referring to w3schools. So I guessed thats the way. Also, nobody ever
told me not to refer w3schools or to refer MDN. If anyone I looked up to
had said such a thing, I would've tried. Or at least would've known that
there are better alternatives (and that #1 in google != best).
- Yeah, w3schools does look simpler, because they omit a lot.

I guess most of these already came up in Jeremie's Learners Area survey.

- jsx

On Sun, Oct 19, 2014 at 4:43 PM, Jean-Yves Perrier <jype...@gmail.com>
wrote:

[Nickolay Ponomarev]

So is anyone opposed to changing the title "WindowTimers.setTimeout()" to
"window.setTimeout()" and perhaps shortening "Web API Interfaces" to "Web
API"? Jean-Yves, you made the Window->WindowTimers change, do you feel
strongly about the title?

The spec name ("WindowTimers") could still be in the URL and in the page
hierarchy.

Nickolay

[Jean-Yves Perrier]

We shouldn't change it.

window.setTimeout is just wrong in Web Workers.

See the spec for them:

WorkerGlobalScope <https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/workers.html#workerglobalscope> implements WindowTimers <https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/webappapis.html#windowtimers>


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> wrote:
>
> > Cool!
> >
> > I'm curious here.
> >
> > Given that we are in the top results for such requests for the
> last few
> > years, I would like to know why in the first place he went to
> w3schools?
> >
> > Is it because:
> > - it is fast
> > - it is #1 and he didn't look further
> > - it was recommended by somebody else (friend, co-worker, teacher)
> > - it looks simpler.
> >
> >
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