donation infobar vs. straight donations ...

Hi Christian,

  Is there any way we can differentiate the donation reminder infobar
from the download donation page ?

  One of the things we really need to know is the cause of our increase
in donations; and I would love us to do two things:

  * switch the donate URL in the app - to something
    that re-directs to the same place, but is
    distinguishable
    + Christian can we create an alias somehow
      that we can easily log & update the source?
    + ideally we can track which source an actual
      donation came through too.
    + Florian - does that need a redmine ticket ?
    [ unfortunately that has no effect for
      ~6 months ]

  * can we analyze donation page hits to look at
    referrer over time, in particular who magically
    arrived there (ie. any new ones are prolly from
    the infobar). Is there a way to track the referrer
    of an individual that actually donates ? why -
    I'd bet we have a far higher conversion of infobar
    users than people who just see that during download.

  Would love to see the data; it's rather important to quantify to better
understand what to do with app-stores, eg. "in-app donations" vs.
download page donations.

  Thoughts appreciated,

    Michael.

Hi

One remark:

* switch the donate URL in the app - to something that re-directs to
... unfortunately that has no effect for~6 months ]

Maybe we tweak not the URL in the app but that of the donation page
instead? This would work immediately, not only in 6 month?

Great plan ! =) I think Christian is doing some data crunching for us
now, certainly easier to change the download web-page than the software.

  ATB,

    Michael.