Timeline for Percentage of users who edit the URL of the site they're on?
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| Feb 27, 2014 at 12:20 | vote | accept | Calle | ||
| Feb 27, 2014 at 11:03 | answer | added | unor | timeline score: 7 | |
| Feb 26, 2014 at 16:39 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackUX/status/438715054381613056 | ||
| Feb 26, 2014 at 14:59 | comment | added | Calle | @aslum, very well put. That's a good perspective to have, I think, and not to worry too much about the exact details. :-) | |
| Feb 26, 2014 at 14:34 | comment | added | aslum | One thing worth noting is the people who are likely to edit URLs are generally going to be savvy enough about what they are doing to not be surprised or terribly disappointed by an occasional 404 when doing so. | |
| Feb 26, 2014 at 14:33 | answer | added | Elle_Underscore | timeline score: 1 | |
| Feb 26, 2014 at 14:31 | history | edited | Calle | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Clarification on the question, asking for stats or other information, more than people's opinions.
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| Feb 26, 2014 at 14:23 | comment | added | Calle | Thanks guys - your comments make perfect sense, and to me reflect that we each see things differently. I edit URLs as well, but as a professional web developer, I'm aware that I'm a minority when it comes to the target audience. I'm looking for more hard evidence to backup one theory or another, on whether people in general actually edit the URLs.. :-) | |
| Feb 26, 2014 at 13:45 | comment | added | Philipp | I only edit numbers in URLs when there is a reasonable expectation to find content that way which is relevant to me. When I would be browsing for vacation properties, I would have some requirements like price range or location. It would be unlikely to find something in that range by entering random ID numbers. | |
| Feb 26, 2014 at 13:43 | comment | added | PatomaS | In this modern era, I'm more inclined to edit an url that I can understand than one I can't. If I see "vacation-property-in-italy" I may edit and try "vacation-property-in-spain", but if I see "abc123456", I'm not going to try alternatives because I assume that the ID is generated, kind of, randomly and whatever I try is not going to take me anywhere. Also, if I can read/understand something, I know what to change/try, but if Idon't understand what I see, I don't know what to try. | |
| Feb 26, 2014 at 13:41 | answer | added | Philipp | timeline score: -1 | |
| Feb 26, 2014 at 13:41 | comment | added | Michael Kohne | I'm unclear about the rationale here - how is the user editing a jumble of characters going to work out better than them editing a set of words? Either way, they end up with an error page unless they know exactly what they are doing. | |
| Feb 26, 2014 at 13:35 | answer | added | VoronoiPotato | timeline score: 1 | |
| Feb 26, 2014 at 13:31 | comment | added | Calle | No, there's no way AFAIK to programmatically collect this information. However, it would be very interesting to see any references to studies or other data that highlight user behaviour when it comes to the interaction in the address bar of the browser. | |
| Feb 26, 2014 at 12:34 | comment | added | Racheet | I'd love to see that info too, but I can't think of any way to actually collect it. AFAIK Browsers don't record when a user interacts with the url bar, so there's no way for us to collect the data. | |
| Feb 26, 2014 at 12:33 | review | First posts | |||
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| Feb 26, 2014 at 12:14 | history | asked | Calle | CC BY-SA 3.0 |