0.2% can be an OK conversion rate for some things.
Sounds about like the number of times I accidentally clicked the link
I've always wondered if anyone used sharing buttons on news sites and blogs
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Re: I've always wondered if anyone used sharing buttons on news sites and blogs
#12I've added a button that just triggers `navigator.share()`[1]. I know most users do the copy-paste dance, but I find this is a good middle ground. Adding functionality for my users, but not adding special social media share buttons. [1]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Navigator/s...
I thought about using navigator.share myself, but decided to go with the basic "Copy URL" button instead, as navigator.share is pretty useless on desktops and not supported across browsers on phones either (Android's Webview being the big one for my use case).
Why not both? A small button with "Copy link" text to, well, copy the current URL and another that calls "native" share, if available. I don't find it to be too many options, but I would guess that perhaps "Copy link" would have more clicks than `navigator.share`.
Re: I've always wondered if anyone used sharing buttons on news sites and blogs
#13> The share buttons got clicked 14,078 times. That’s a 0.21% usage rate, which works out to about 1 in 476 visitors. In other words, people not only click share buttons, but do it quite often?
Yeah I find this article hilarious. Especially since maybe less than 1 in 10 visitors will actually want to share the article? So 1 in 476 is actually pretty decent usage.
Re: I've always wondered if anyone used sharing buttons on news sites and blogs
#14> The share buttons got clicked 14,078 times. That’s a 0.21% usage rate, which works out to about 1 in 476 visitors. In other words, people not only click share buttons, but do it quite often?
Yeah I think the author needs a dose of reality about how many users do anything on a site. Something that 1 in 476 visitors do isn't that bad. Especially when there's no real ongoing cost to doing so.
Re: I've always wondered if anyone used sharing buttons on news sites and blogs
#15I use share buttons all the time on social platforms, and apps like Amazon that don't have any other way of deep linking. Lot's of people use apps that don't expose a link, share buttons are great and even better when they use standards like your OS's share functionality.
That is one of the reasons any publisher wants you to install yet another app in your phone. Be it fb, ig, goog, tk...
Edit: Reddit :/
Re: I've always wondered if anyone used sharing buttons on news sites and blogs
#16See the rest of this comment to learn what dlcarrier thought of the article!
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48561332#:~:text=Of%20c...
Of course no one wants to use a feature that creates a huge link and throws in a bunch of disingenuous text.
Re: I've always wondered if anyone used sharing buttons on news sites and blogs
#170.2% can be an OK conversion rate for some things.
At a previous job an "infinite scroll" experience was tested against many paginated pages and 0.2% is roughly the conversion rate of someone clicking through to the 4th or 5th page of results IIRC. They decided to not go true "infinite scoll" but rather add a "See More" button instead of pagination.
Anyway just interesting data points for what "0.2% conversion" looked like in my experience.
Re: I've always wondered if anyone used sharing buttons on news sites and blogs
#18> The share buttons got clicked 14,078 times. That’s a 0.21% usage rate, which works out to about 1 in 476 visitors. In other words, people not only click share buttons, but do it quite often?
Yeah I find this article hilarious. Especially since maybe less than 1 in 10 visitors will actually want to share the article? So 1 in 476 is actually pretty decent usage.
For which the other 475 get saddled with a bunch of extraneous downloads and invasive tracking.
Re: I've always wondered if anyone used sharing buttons on news sites and blogs
#19> That’s a 0.21% usage rate, which works out to about 1 in 476 visitors.
That's actually not low at all, and much higher than I would have expected for government website pages.
Not to mention the _actual_ social sharing of mentioning pages to people you know who need the information on those pages.
Re: I've always wondered if anyone used sharing buttons on news sites and blogs
#20I've added a button that just triggers `navigator.share()`[1]. I know most users do the copy-paste dance, but I find this is a good middle ground. Adding functionality for my users, but not adding special social media share buttons. [1]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Navigator/s...
Oh is this what that is, I saw a few sites use it recently but for whatever reason on my desktop pc (windows 10) the only options I have are copilot, another copilot (for some reason), one-note and discord, which claims to also be a copy to clipboard option but it doesn't work. So in the end for sites that don't show the raw string I have no way to copy something.