CUNY Academic Commons

I've collected some data for comparison. First, some raw numbers from the database.

                                     Social Paper       Docs
1. Items created in last 12 months   207                246
2. Edits in last 12 months           417                1133
3. Distinct items edited (12 mo)     181                254
4. Total items (all time)            381                1820
5. Users who have created items      69                 86
   in the last 12 months
6. Groups where items have been
   created/linked in last 12 months  8                  30
7. Public/private counts             88 public          5 public    
   of items created within 12 mo     119 private        204 private/hidden
8. Comments in last 12 months        470                203

A few takeaways from this:
a. SPs appear to be created but not edited much; Docs get almost 3x more edits each.
b. There are far more overall Docs, but it's a much older feature.
c. A far larger number of groups is using Docs, but it's worth noting that Docs must be used in groups, while for SPs it's optional.
d. SPs get more than 2x the comments, but comments are also a more critical part of the SP experience than in the case of Docs

I've also attached some screenshots of analytics from the last 12 months:
- traffic to URLs like /groups/*/docs*
- traffic to URLs like /groups/docs/* (roughly, the same as above but without directory views)
- traffic to URLs like /papers*
- traffic to URLs like /papers/* (roughly, the same as above but without directory views)

Briefly, the numbers are fairly similar between SP and Docs. The only obvious differences I see are that pageviews for Doc directories are notably higher than for SP directories (while single Doc vs single SP are pretty close), and that the bounce rate is much higher for SPs (though I'm unsure whether that's relevant for these content types).

In all of the above, but perhaps especially in the context of pageviews, note that nearly half of SPs are public, while almost all Docs are non-public. Presumably, this means that SPs get much more organic traffic, while nearly 100% of Docs traffic is from people who are intentionally looking for those items.

Switching this ticket to Matt, as I think I've already collected the necessary information from Analytics that I was going to ask Scott for. I've also added a number of watchers, so they can start to digest the stats that I posted above.