meiert.com Survey Results

Jens Meiert, October 13, 2008.

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It’s one and a half months since I asked for your feedback on meiert.com, and I finally decided to publish a few results and to reply to some responses I got via the “comments and suggestions” field. However, first I like to thank everyone who participated in the survey!

By the way, the survey will still stay up and running until the end of time. I figured that it doesn’t do much harm to have it live, not for now, so feel free to share your thoughts if you haven’t already.

Questions

As of today, the Likert scale questions revealed a really great perception of this site, one that I’m quite happy about, and one that makes me work even harder to maintain and even improve this status. So here we go, even though I intentionally, lazily avoided to use a table or other means to represent the survey data because I think it’s just legit to do it this way:

When it comes to quality of content, 97.92 % chose “good” or “excellent”, scoring a pleasing 4.562 on a 1-5 scale.
The design of this site has been rated “good” or “excellent” by 71.88 % (3.896), the most important question for me being if the design works though.
79.79 % of all participants rated posting frequency “average” or “good”, while 13.83 % thought it’s yet “excellent” (3.809).
Technical quality has been considered “good” or “excellent” by 97.92 % (4.552).
Overall, 94.79 % rated meiert.com “good” and “excellent” (4.354).

Comments and Suggestions

There have been several great comments, still I’m only publishing four of them which receive three replies:

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font-family: ugly;
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The best comment concerning this site’s font choice. I suspect this to be related to display problems with Cambria as the primary font or different fallbacks on Linux distributions, respectively, however I may ask for more details if there really are any issues, and otherwise patience since I regularly test fonts and do adjust if necessary.

Sometimes your statements seem a bit arrogant, because you’re very confident about them. I know you’re really a great expert, but from time to time it would be good to say that it’s your well-grounded opinion, so it doesn’t look like the only ultimate solution.

Sometimes, the author seems a little … mmmm … ~~[…]~~ fundamentalist and pedant on some of his articles, specially when he talks against CSS frameworks, or resets, in an extreme position (“this is bad, this is harmful”), and sometime it looks like his ego is deeply involved.

While I try to stress that opinions can be dangerous and to go for arguments most of the time, I understand that my “communication style” happens to be quite “strict” from time to time. I hope that recent posts brought in some different style, however I’ll aim for a more “constructive” voice that also provides better rationales, as I might not always have succeeded with clearly communicating a topic’s advantages and disadvantages. (I enjoy being strict though, and some things don’t deserve cuddling anyway.)

It’s good to see that there are some people willing to weather the endless storm of web-gimmickry ~~[…]~~.

I considered quoting from the more obvious compliments I received, but I like this comment very much as I think it reflects a nice observation and something that is not unimportant. Our industry and our profession are in constant motion and face a lot of innovation – but quite some of it is no real innovation, and not all of it is relevant. I am glad that my readers acknowledge that I’m not a “party-pooper” but rather concerned about a few things, and that I do share experience just as much as I encourage other people to share theirs.

Anyway: Thank you!

Enjoy the most popular posts, probably including:

Comments

On October 13, 2008, 19:31 CEST, Louis said:

I partially agree with what has been said on your “arrogant” tone: while your posts are the work of someone that deeply knows what he’s talking about, it would be more interesting to put the reflexion into the form of an open discussion.

I think that being elitist is important in order to get excelence, but even a master can discover other viewpoints while discuting a point with other people.

Very impressive results by the way!
On October 13, 2008, 20:13 CEST, Duluoz said:

I think you have every right to be quite proud of this site.

I also like your tone and confidence when replying to comments. You are more than respectful and quite direct and to the point, which I find refreshing in the PC world being shoved down our throats. It’s not mean to disagree. Feel feel to disagree with me.
On October 14, 2008, 18:59 CEST, Jens Meiert said:

Louis, thanks, and as for the tone, well, let’s see

David, WTF.

Jens Meiert