Impact of Rediff Redesign – What went up? Data Speaks..

October 5, 2009

By sinha

Rediff pushed it’s redesigned site, a few months back and the design was in all respect, the boldest ever decision taken by any content company – i.e. to go minimal and promote the ‘*broken* search box.

So what was the impact of redesign? Did it increase the pageviews? Unique Users?

Well, data does the talking.

Average page per visitor increased since July

Rediff Redesign Impact - Average Page view per Visitor

Total Visits shows signs of recovery

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So what has come down?
One of the most important stat (for a content portal), i.e. the number of Unique Users. The savior is that there hasn’t been any significant drop and one might expect a bounce back, now that pageviews are showing some signs of recovery.

Rediff Redesign Impact - Unique Users Remain Flat

So here is the question – has redesign worked for Rediff? Or are pageviews an after-effect of ‘those extra clicks’, visitors have to go through, owing to the ‘minimalistic’design?

The real-$ impact will be known in the coming months when Rediff will announce it’s quarterly report, but overall the site doesn’t seem to do too bad with the redesign.

Having said that, will the redesign revive Rediff? What’s your opinion?

*Comscore only has data available till August.

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Srikanth on October 5, 2009 at 3:51 pm

They got a lot of flak for it among my tweet and blog circles, but I like the new design. I find myself visiting Rediff more and viewing more pages there than before the re-design.FWIW.

Neeraj on October 6, 2009 at 1:40 pm

Ya, Certainly …
The Site is very good and i also like the redesign. One thing, I like mostly about the rediff people is that they reply to any questions or suggestions u give them.